Temporal variations and change in forest fire danger in Europe for 1960–2012

Understanding how fire weather danger indices changed in the past and how such changes affected forest fire activity is important in a changing climate. We used the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI), calculated from two reanalysis data sets, ERA-40 and ERA Interim, to examine the temporal variation...

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Main Authors: A. Venäläinen, N. Korhonen, O. Hyvärinen, N. Koutsias, F. Xystrakis, I. R. Urbieta, J. M. Moreno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2014-06-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/14/1477/2014/nhess-14-1477-2014.pdf