Medieval warming initiated exceptionally large wildfire outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2015-10-05

• Fields of study

  Geography, Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1500796112PMID 26438834PMCID PMC4629385
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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