Development of a Global Fire Weather Database
The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System is the mostly widely used fire danger rating system in the world. We have developed a global database of daily FWI System calculations, beginning in 1980, called the Global Fire WEather Database (GFWED) gridded to a spatial resolution of 0.5° latit...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2015-06-01
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Series: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
Online Access: | http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/15/1407/2015/nhess-15-1407-2015.pdf |