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Nauslar, N.J., Hatchett, B.J. (2019). Dry Thunderstorms. In: Manzello, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51727-8_176-1

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