- Author
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McCutchan, M. H.
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Helfman, R. S.
- Title
- Synoptic-Scale Weather Disturbances That Influence Fire Climate in southeast Asia During Normally Dry Periods. Preliminar Report.
- Coporate
- Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experimental Station, Berkeley, CA
- Report
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ARPA Order No. 818,
1969,
74 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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weather effects
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fire climate
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rainfall
- Abstract
- Fire climate is affected by temperature, humidity, wind speed, precipitaton, and cloud cover. In Southeast Asia, the two major factors are rainfall and cloud coer. The purpose of this study was to investigate the synoptic scale weather disturbances that influence the fire climate in Southeast Asia (SEA) during the normally dry period (November through April). Ramage has suggested that the "tropical trough" is the principal synoptic-scale weather system which causes widespread rain during this period in this part of the world.