Microclimate and modeled fire behavior differ between adjacent forest types in northern Portugal

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2490-2504

  Pinto, Anita ^a   Fernandes, Paulo M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fire behavior; Fire weather; Forest meteorology; Fuel moisture content

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FUELS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; WIND;

AIR TEMPERATURE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE ENVIRONMENT; FIRE WEATHER; FOREST COMPOSITIONS; FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT; REGRESSION TREES; STAND DENSITIES;

FORESTRY;

FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FIRE; MICROCLIMATE; MICROMETEOROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WIND VELOCITY;

FIRES; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT; WEATHER;

PORTUGAL;

BETULA PUBESCENS; CHAMAECYPARIS LAWSONIANA; PINUS PINASTER;

EID: 84921324529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5102490     Document Type: Article

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