✦ LIBER ✦

On the distribution of wildfire sizes

✍ Scribed by Frederic Paik Schoenberg; Roger Peng; James Woods

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 112 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 1180-4009
DOI: 10.1002/env.605

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A variety of models for the wildfire size distribution are examined using data on Los Angeles County wildfires greater than 100 acres between 1950 and 2000. In addition to graphs and likelihood criteria, Kolmogorov–Smirnoff and Cramer–von Mises statistics are used to compare the models. The tapered Pareto distribution appears to fit the data quite well and offers some advantages over the untapered Pareto distribution, while alternatives including the lognormal, half‐normal, exponential and extremal distributions fit poorly. The size distribution appears to be quite stable over the examination period, though inspection of the transformed wildfire sizes for the tapered Pareto reveals some limited trend in the residuals, indicating a very slight gradual decrease in the average fire size in Los Angeles County over these 50 years. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

On the Size Distribution of Live Genera

✍ WILLIAM J. Reed; BARRY D. HUGHES 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 212 KB

This article deals with the theoretical size (number of species) distribution of live genera, arising from a simple model of macroevolution in which speciations and extinctions are assumed to occur independently and at random, and in which new genera are formed by the random splitting of existing ge

On the Distribution of Fragment Sizes in

On the Distribution of Fragment Sizes in the Fragmentation of Polymer Chains

✍ B. C. Hathorn; B. G. Sumpter; D. W. Noid 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 79 KB 👁 1 views

On the measurement of atmospheric gamma

On the measurement of atmospheric gamma drop-size distributions

✍ Dan Brawn; Graham Upton 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 85 KB 👁 1 views

Note on simulating the size distribution

Note on simulating the size distribution of glacial cirques

✍ Fabio V. De Blasio 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 67 KB 👁 1 views

On the Size Distribution of Asteroid Fam

On the Size Distribution of Asteroid Families: The Role of Geometry

✍ P. Tanga; A. Cellino; P. Michel; V. Zappalà; P. Paolicchi; A. Dell'Oro 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 282 KB

The steep slopes of the size distributions of the presently known asteroid families have long represented a debated problem. The reason is that it is not easy to reproduce them by the usual modeling techniques based on the application of standard power-laws as suggested by laboratory experiments. In

Wildfire. Book one of two

✍ Mack, David 📂 Fiction 📅 2002 🏛 Pocket Books/Star Trek 🌐 English ⚖ 56 KB

The da Vinci goes on a dangerous salvage mission: to rescue the U.S.S. Orion from a gas giant. As if the turbulent atmosphere of the planet wasn't enough, the Orion is carrying the prototype of the deadly Wildfire device -- a protomatter warhead that can ignite gas giants into stars. But the operati