Description

This presentation will provide an overview of several models and modeling systems developed by authors over the past 10 years for simulating certain aspects of crown fire behavior. Based on a wealth of high-quality fire behavior data collected over some three decades of experimental burning principally in Canada, the authors have developed and tested several empirical and semi-physically-based models aimed at predicting the onset of crowning, the type of crown fire (i.e., passive or active) and the associated rate of spread.