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Title

Recording wind velocity, direction, and temperature in fires by logarithmic technique
Document Type: Book
Author(s): Thomas Y. Palmer; Clifford J. Auvil
Publication Year: 1975

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):
  • air quality
  • air temperature
  • experimental fires
  • fire intensity
  • fire management
  • rate of spread
  • season of fire
  • temperature
  • topography
  • weather observations
  • wildfires
  • wind
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Record Maintained By:
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Record Last Modified: May 30, 2019
FRAMES Record Number: 35040
Tall Timbers Record Number: 9332
TTRS Location Status: In-file
TTRS Call Number: A13.79: PSW-304/1975 DDW
TTRS Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission

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Description

Wind velocity, direction, and temperatures can vary drastically before, during, and after wild or prescribed fires. A data-recording system based on the logarithmic character of semiconductors has been developed for observing turbulent fluctuations from the mean in ratio form. The system combines a recorder, discriminator, amplifier, thermocouple, and anemometer. It has been satisfactorily field tested under severe ambient and fire conditions. This method can also be used to record and determine mixing ratios in turbulent areas for air quality studies.

Citation:
Palmer, T. Y., and C. J. Auvil. 1975. Recording wind velocity, direction, and temperature in fires by logarithmic technique. Research Note PSW-304. Berkeley, CA, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station.