The Influence of Precipitation and Consecutive Dry Days on Burned Areas in Yunnan Province, Southwestern China

Precipitation is among the more limiting meteorological factors affecting the occurrence and extent of forest fire. We examined the correlation between burned area of individual wildfires and the rainfall amounts occurring on the day of the burn and the number of consecutive dry days for a range of...

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Main Authors: Feng Chen, Zhaofei Fan, Shukui Niu, Jingming Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Advances in Meteorology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/748923
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