Controls on interannual variability in lightning-caused fire activity in the western US

Lightning-caused wildfires account for a majority of burned area across the western United States (US), yet lightning remains among the more unpredictable spatiotemporal aspects of the fire environment and a challenge for both modeling and managing fire activity. A data synthesis of cloud-to-ground...

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Published in:	Environmental research letters Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 45005 - 45015
Main Authors:	Abatzoglou, John T, Kolden, Crystal A, Balch, Jennifer K, Bradley, Bethany A
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Bristol IOP Publishing 01.04.2016
Subjects:	Climate Climatic conditions Commonality Forest & brush fires Lightning strikes modeling Regional analysis wildfire Wildfires Western states United States > US USA
ISSN:	1748-9326, 1748-9326
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