Recent changes in annual area burned in interior Alaska: The impact of fire management

Earth Interactions

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1-17

  Calef, M P ^a   Varvak, A ^a   McGuire, A D ^b   Chapin, F S ^b   Reinhold, K B ^c  

^a SOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest fires; Geographic information systems (GIS); North America

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ANNUAL AREA BURNED; CLIMATE WARMING; FIRE SUPPRESSION; FOREST FIRES; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

FIRES;

BOREAL FOREST; FIRE HISTORY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; FOREST FIRE; GIS; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84948741235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/EI-D-14-0025.1     Document Type: Article

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