Wind characteristics over complex terrain with implications for bushfire risk management

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Environmental Modelling & Software

• Publication date

  2010-10-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Computer Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.03.016
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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