Size of wildfires in the Euro-Mediterranean region: Observations and theoretical analysis

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1331-1341

  Hernandez, C ^a   Drobinski, P ^a   Turquety, S ^a   Dupuy, J L ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b French National Institute for Agriculture   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURNING; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WILDFIRE; WIND VELOCITY;

EASTERN EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84932628570     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-15-1331-2015     Document Type: Article

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