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A speculative, phenomenological model is formulated for the time-varying intensity and spread rate of a free-burning fire under the influence of nonsteady wind. The model is linearized by approximations and explicit solutions derived for the amplitude response of spread rate and…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel management, fuel models, rate of spread, spot fires, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind
Studies of the atmospheric dispersion over complex terrain, with the aid of smoke plumes, enable the direct observation of the marginal density probability of the emitted particles. Experiments near the ground correlate the turbulence easurements at 10 m height and plume…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: elevation, Europe, experimental fires, fire management, humidity, smoke behavior, smoke effects, temperature, wind
'...With the aid of modern laboratory techniques it is possible to detect not only the end products of combustion proccsses but also many substances that appear transiently in the course of burning. As a result fire has come to be understood chemically as an intricate network of…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, fuel management, fuel types, gases, heat, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, pollution, soot, temperature
From the text... 'The outcome of the Southern Forestry Education Campaign was much less devisive. To begin with, its subject was not the internal distribution of agency funds but the promotion of fire protection as a concept. Nor was it concerned with the question of transient…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Adirondack Mountains, Africa, agriculture, backfires, Belgian Congo, broadcast burning, Canada, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, conservation, distribution, education, erosion, Europe, fire case histories, fire equipment, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, firefighting personnel, Florida, France, fuel management, Georgia, Germany, Greece, histories, human caused fires, hunting, Idaho, ignition, Illinois, incendiary fires, insects, Kentucky, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Maine, Maryland, Mediterranean habitats, Michigan, military lands, Mississippi, national forests, Native Americans, Nebraska, New England, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Ozarks, Pennsylvania, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, presettlement fires, private lands, public information, rangeland fires, recreation related fires, resins, Russia, Scandinavia, slash, Smokey Bear program, soils, Turkey, US Forest Service, water, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wood, AFA - American Forestry Association, COAL MINE FIRES, CCC - Civilian Conservation Corporation, CODE NAPOLEON, CFFP - Cooperate Forest Fire Prevention Program, CORDILLERA, DESCON (Designated Control Burn System), DIXIE CRUSADERS, EXCOMMUNICATION, fire codes, JOB HUNTING FIRES, KEEP GREEN PROGRAM, MARK TWAIN, MARTIAL LAW, MOONSHINERS, National Fire Prevention Day, NEW DEAL, NWCG - National Wildfire Coordinating Group, PROJECT SKYFIRE, propaganda, RURAL ELECTRIFICATION, SCFFP - Southern Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Program, SIMON EL ORO, SMOKE JUMPER, Tillamook Fire, WARTIME, WFCA - Western Forestry and Conservation Association
From the text... 'It is often assumed that the American Indian was incapable of greatly modifying his environment and that he would not have been much interested in doing so if he did have the capabilities. In fact, he possessed both the tool and the will to use it. That tool…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aborigines, agriculture, arid regions, barrens, broadcast burning, burning intervals, Canada, catastrophic fires, coastal plain, deserts, droughts, duff, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, fertilizers, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire protection, fire regimes, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, grasses, grasslands, habitat suitability, habitat types, histories, human caused fires, hunting, insects, integrated pest management, land use planning, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, logging, mammals, mortality, mosaic, Native Americans, New England, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, prairies, precipitation, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, recreation, rivers, savannas, scorch, season of fire, slash, swamps, trees, understory vegetation, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, MYTHOLOGY
The relationship between daily total tons of forestry fuel consumed by prescribed burns in western Oregon and 24-hour average total suspended particulate (TSP) concentration in the Willamette Valley is examined. The relationship is statistically significant at the 95% level. A…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, fire hazard reduction, forest management, national forests, Oregon, particulates, rural communities, seasonal activities, smoke management, statistical analysis, topography, weather observations
An empirical representation of the power spectral density of horizontal gustiness near the ground in high winds is combined with a theoretical model for the response of free-burning fires to nonsteady wind to predict the variability of spread rate and intensity of wind-aided…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: chaparral, conifers, fire intensity, fire suppression, fuel models, fuel types, grasslands, hardwoods, litter, logging, rate of spread, slash, smoke behavior, tallgrass prairies, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wind
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Andropogon, ash, biogeography, biomass, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, chemical compounds, chemistry, dominance (ecology), ecotones, fire frequency, fire size, grasslands, habitat types, Ivory Coast, Loudetia simplex, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, plant growth, post fire recovery, sampling, savannas, scrub, seasonal activities, statistical analysis, S - sulfur, tropical forests, wildfires
Eighteen experimental fires were used to compare measured and calculated values for emission factors and fuel consumption to evaluate the carbon balance technique. The technique is based on a model for the emission factor of carbon dioxide, corrected for the production of other…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: laboratory fires, smoke management, forest fire smoke, smoke plume concentrations, air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, gases, particulates, smoke behavior
From the text... 'To understand and predict wildland fire behavior, it is necessary to enlarge analogies drawn from confined fires and to create models for the components of the fire environment, such as fuels and weather, and for the mechanics of fire propagation. Wildland fire…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern, International
Keywords: backfires, blowups, catastrophic fires, char, chemistry, combustion, convection, crown fires, decomposition, droughts, duff, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire whirls, flame length, flammability, floods, forest types, fuel loading, fuel moisture, grasses, ground fires, heat, heat effects, histories, human caused fires, hydrology, ignition, India, Komarek, E.V., Sr., landscape ecology, live fuels, military lands, national forests, New England, nutrients, O - oxygen, physics, private lands, rivers, sloping terrain, spot fires, statistical analysis, topography, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, water, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, woody fuels, conduction, firestorm, LAWSUITS, MYTHOLOGY, pitch, pyrolysis, thermodynamics