Modeling very large-fire occurrences over the continental United States from weather and climate forcing

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Barbero, R ^a   Abatzoglou, J T ^a   Steel, E A ^b   Larkin, Narasimhan K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

climate fire; timescales; United States; very large fires

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY;

CLIMATE PROJECTION; FIRE SUPPRESSION; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME-SCALES; UNITED STATES;

FIRES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE FORCING; DROUGHT; ECOREGION; FIRE; LAND MANAGEMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919633078     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/12/124009     Document Type: Article

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