The history and characteristics of the 1980–2005 Portuguese rural fire database

We focus here on a mainland Continental Portuguese Rural Fire Database (PRFD) that includes 450 000 fires, the largest such database in Europe in terms of total number of recorded fires in the 1980–2005 period. In this work, we (a) list the most important factors for triggering and controlling the f...

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Main Authors: M. G. Pereira, B. D. Malamud, R. M. Trigo, P. I. Alves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2011-12-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/11/3343/2011/nhess-11-3343-2011.pdf