Title of article
The flaming sandpile: self-organized criticality and wildfires
Author/Authors
Ricotta، نويسنده , , Carlo and Avena، نويسنده , , Giancarlo and Marchetti، نويسنده , , Marco، نويسنده ,
Pages
5
From page
73
To page
77
Abstract
A large series of wildfire records of the Regional Forest Service of Liguria (northern Italy) from 1986 to 1993 was examined for agreement with power-law behavior between frequency of occurrence and size of the burned area. The statistical analysis shows that the idea of self-organized criticality (SOC) applies well to explain wildfire occurrence on a regional basis.
Keywords
Fractal statistics , Liguria , Self-organized criticality , Wildfires
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Record number
2080313
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