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This paper describes the results of examining the influence of radiative heat transfer on turbulent natural convection above fires in an atmosphere of constant potential temperature, under both the 'opaque' and 'transparent' approximations. It turns out that on the basis of the…
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Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: convection, cover, energy, fire size, heat, physics, smoke behavior, smoke management, temperature
[Excerpted from text] Most experienced firefighters have encountered fire whirlwinds. These whirls, or "fire devils" as they are sometimes called, range in size from small twisters a foot or two in diameter up to violent whirls equal to small tornadoes in size and intensity.…
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Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire whirl, laboratory experiments, whirlwind, vertical velocity, horizontal velocity, fire management, gases, laboratory fires, wind
Late in 1961 the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory initiated a fire detection research program. The primary objective of this program is the development of a system capable of detecting both man-caused and lightning-caused fires day or night through all normally encountered…
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Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: conservation, fire control, lightning caused fires, Montana, photography, Picea engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, remote sensing, smoke management, spot fires