Publication Date:
1998-09-22
Description:
Despite the many complexities concerning their initiation and propagation, forest fires exhibit power-law frequency-area statistics over many orders of magnitude. A simple forest fire model, which is an example of self-organized criticality, exhibits similar behavior. One practical implication of this result is that the frequency-area distribution of small and medium fires can be used to quantify the risk of large fires, as is routinely done for earthquakes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Malamud -- Morein -- Turcotte -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Sep 18;281(5384):1840-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-1504, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9743494" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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