The investigation of the temporal fluctuations in forest fires is an important topic in the context of environmental sciences. Time-scaling scale-invariant methodologies have been used to characterize the temporal properties of forest-fire sequences detected in the Italian territory. Our findings reveal that the fire sequences can be considered as fractal processes with a high degree of time-clusterization of the events. The time-clustering phenomenon is clearly visible from timescales of order of days. Furthermore the fire sequences observed with decreasing latitude tend to be more time-clusterized.

Analysis of time-scaling properties in forest-fire sequence observed in Italy

Telesca L;Lasaponara R
2010

Abstract

The investigation of the temporal fluctuations in forest fires is an important topic in the context of environmental sciences. Time-scaling scale-invariant methodologies have been used to characterize the temporal properties of forest-fire sequences detected in the Italian territory. Our findings reveal that the fire sequences can be considered as fractal processes with a high degree of time-clusterization of the events. The time-clustering phenomenon is clearly visible from timescales of order of days. Furthermore the fire sequences observed with decreasing latitude tend to be more time-clusterized.
2010
Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale - IMAA
Forest-fire; Time-clustering;
Coefficient of variation; Allan factor
SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY;
STOCHASTIC POINT-PROCESSES; MODEL
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