Recent changes and relations among drought, vegetation and wildfires in the Eastern Mediterranean: The case of Israel

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 151, Issue , 2017, Pages 28-35

  Turco, Marco ^a,e   Levin, Noam ^b   Tessler, Naama ^c   Saaroni, Hadas ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Drought indices; Forest and wildfire; Israel; Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

DROUGHT INDICES; FOREST AND WILDFIRE; FRACTION OF PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN; MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX;

FIRES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DROUGHT; FOREST FIRE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE;

ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [ISRAEL]; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 85011067798     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.09.002     Document Type: Article

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