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Forest Fires: An Example of Self-Organized Critical Behavior
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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.
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- Authors
- Malamud, B. D., Morein, G., & Turcotte, D. L.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1998-09-18
- Volume
- 281
- Issue
- 5384
- Pages
- 1840-1842
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2020837601
- Cited by
- 589
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 8.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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