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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 1981
Experimental, free-burning wood fires larger than 5 ha were similar in convection column volume after the initial buoyant, ring-vortex rose from the ground. The fire generated strong vorticity patterns which propagated upward into the convection column. The rotation suppressed lateral entrainment and mixing after the buoyant vortex ring had passed. The maximum height of the convection column was determined by vertical wind shear. Maximum smoke, complex hydrocarbon concentrations, combustion gas concentrations, oxygen depletion and visibility reduction and radiation extinction occurred during the first 210s of the fires.
Citation: Palmer, T. Y. 1981. Large fire winds, gases and smoke. Atmospheric Environment, v. 15, no. 10/11, p. 2079-2090.
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Keywords:
- chaparral
- combustion
- convection
- field experimental fires
- fine fuels
- fire intensity
- fire management
- fire size
- fuel arrangement
- gases
- hydrocarbons
- ignition
- Juniperus
- oxygen
- pine forests
- Pinus
- radiation
- smoke behavior
- southern California
- temperature
- wind
- wood
Tall Timbers Record Number: 9424 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Fire File DDW • Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
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