Regional modeling of large wildfires under current and potential future climates in Colorado and Wyoming, USA

Climatic Change

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 565-577

  West, Amanda M ^a   Kumar, Sunil ^a   Jarnevich, Catherine S ^b  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; FIRES; REGIONAL PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE SUITABILITY; GEO-SPATIAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HISTORICAL MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WILDFIRE MODELING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FUTURE PROSPECT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; REGIONAL CLIMATE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; WILDFIRE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 84958745616     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1553-5     Document Type: Article

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