Characterization of time dynamics in fire sequences observed in Patagonia, Argentina

GHERMANDI L.; TELESCA L.; DE TORRES CURT M.; FRANZESE J.

Congreso; EGU General Assembly 2008; 2008

The investigation of the time dynamics of forest-fires is a challenge in the environmentalsciences, and different methods are necessary to completely and deeply identify,quantify and characterize the several features of a fire sequence. Focusing ona vulnerable area of Patagonia (Argentina), the fire temporal regime from 1986 to2005 has been analysed. Methods based on a interevent-time representation and acount-based representation of the fire series, have been applied in order to evidencepossible non-Poissonian patterns, time-clustering behaviour, size-dependent and timedependenttime-scaling properties.