Unraveling the Role of Temperature and Rainfall on Active Fires in the Brazilian Amazon Using a Nonlinear Poisson Model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 117-128

  Lima, Carlos H R ^a   AghaKouchak, Amir ^b,c   Randerson, James T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

fire; Poisson model; rainfall; temperature; The Amazon

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FIRE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE; VULNERABILITY; WARMING;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

EID: 85042218349     PISSN: 21698953     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017JG003836     Document Type: Article

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