Predicting above normal wildfire activity in southern Europe as a function of meteorological drought

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Gudmundsson, L ^a   Rego, F C ^b   Rocha, M ^b   Seneviratne, S I ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

climate impact; drought; forecast; wildfire

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; FIRES; FORECASTING; HAZARDS;

CLIMATE IMPACTS; DECISION MAKERS; EFFICIENT MANAGEMENTS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; METEOROLOGICAL DROUGHT; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WILDFIRE;

DECISION MAKING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; PROBABILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; WILDFIRE;

EUROPE;

EID: 84921638600     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/8/084008     Document Type: Article

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