Sensitivity of global wildfire occurrences to various factors in the context of global change

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 121, Issue , 2015, Pages 86-92

  Huang, Yaoxian ^a   Wu, Shiliang ^a   Kaplan, Jed O ^b  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Global change; Land cover land use; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

FIRES; LAND USE; LIGHTNING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND COVER; LAND USE/LAND COVER; LIGHTNING ACTIVITY; POPULATION DENSITIES; VEGETATION DENSITY; WILDFIRE; WILDFIRE FREQUENCIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84933544555     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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