Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1331-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-1331-2015
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23 Jun 2015
Research article |  | 23 Jun 2015

Size of wildfires in the Euro-Mediterranean region: observations and theoretical analysis

C. Hernandez, P. Drobinski, S. Turquety, and J.-L. Dupuy

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