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Type: Conference Proceedings
Publication Date: 2003
Temperature has been used extensively to characterize wildland fire behavior, intensity, and effects. The thermocouple has become one of the most used instruments to measure this quantity. Although the devices are inexpensive, convenient and easy to use, there can be significant errors associated in temperature measurements when used in fire environments. If these errors are acknowledged and sensors are designed and used judiciously, the temperature measurement can be estimated with much greater accuracy. This paper briefly explains the physics behind thermocouples and some of the errors associated with their use.
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Citation: Shannon, Kyle S.; Butler, Bret W. 2003. A review of error associated with thermocouple temperature measurement in fire environments. Proceedings of the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology. 7B.4. 16 November 16-20, 2003. American Meteorological Society.
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Keywords:
- ecology
- energy
- fire equipment
- fire intensity
- fire management
- JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
- methods
- physics
- temperature
- temperature measurement
- thermocouples
- wilderness fire management
- wildfires
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