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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2011-12-01
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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 |