On the key role of droughts in the dynamics of summer fires in Mediterranean Europe

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Turco, Marco ^a,b   Von Hardenberg, Jost ^c   AghaKouchak, Amir ^d   Llasat, Maria Carmen ^a   Provenzale, Antonello ^e   Trigo, Ricardo M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DRIVER; DROUGHT; EUROPE; FIRE; HUMAN; SUMMER;

EID: 85029174354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-00116-9     Document Type: Article

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