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On the Fire Nature of a Subtropical Maritime Island in East Asia: Taiwan
Author(s) -
Ming Cheng Yen,
Tsing-Chang Chen
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of applied meteorology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1520-0450
pISSN - 0894-8763
DOI - 10.1175/jam2278.1
Subject(s) - subtropics , climatology , geography , subtropical ridge , east asia , environmental science , variation (astronomy) , physical geography , meteorology , china , archaeology , geology , precipitation , ecology , biology , physics , astrophysics
Active wild fires over continental landmasses occur in the warm, dry summer. In contrast, in a study by Yen and Chen it was observed that the fire occurrence in Taiwan exhibits an annual variation with a peak in the cool, dry winter. Analysis of the fire-disaster reports released recently by the National Fire Administration of Taiwan shows that fire-related house damage, property loss, and human casualties, overall, exhibit annual variations in concert with the annual variation in the fire-occurrence frequency. The fire-disaster statistics support Yen and Chen’s observation of the annual variation of the fire-occurrence frequency on a subtropical maritime island.

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