The status and challenge of global fire modelling

Biogeosciences

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 3359-3375

  Hantson, Stijn ^a   Arneth, Almut ^a   Harrison, Sandy P ^b,c   Kelley, Douglas I ^b,c   Colin Prentice, I ^c,d   Rabin, Sam S ^e   Archibald, Sally ^f,g   Mouillot, Florent ^h   Arnold, Steve R ⁱ   Artaxo, Paulo ^j   Bachelet, Dominique ^k,l   Ciais, Philippe ^m   Forrest, Matthew ⁿ   Friedlingstein, Pierre ^o   Hickler, Thomas ^n,p   Kaplan, Jed O ^q   Kloster, Silvia ^r   Knorr, Wolfgang ^s   Lasslop, Gitta ^r   Li, Fang ^t   Mangeon, Stephane ^d   Melton, Joe R ^u   Meyn, Andrea ^v   Sitch, Stephen ^o   Spessa, Allan ^w,x   Van Der Werf, Guido R ^y   Voulgarakis, Apostolos ^d   Yue, Chao ^m   more..

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^g DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^h UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^k OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

^m LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

ⁿ BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^p GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^r MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^s LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^t INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^u ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^v KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^w OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^x MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^y VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BENCHMARKING; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOMASS BURNING; COMPLEXITY; DATA SET; GLOBAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE;

EID: 84974578310     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-3359-2016     Document Type: Article

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