Heightened fire probability in Indonesia in non-drought conditions: The effect of increasing temperatures

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Fernandes, Kátia ^a   Verchot, Louis ^b   Baethgen, Walter ^a   Gutierrez Velez, Victor ^c   Pinedo Vasquez, Miguel ^a,d   Martius, Christopher ^d  

^a Earth Institute   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

climate adaptation; climate change; fire and climate dynamics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; PROBABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE ADAPTATION; CLIMATE DYNAMICS; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; IMPACT OF TEMPERATURES; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; REGIONAL CLIMATE PROJECTIONS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

FIRES;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FIRE; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

INDONESIA;

EID: 85019944824     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa6884     Document Type: Article

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