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Smoke dispersion and the effects of fire behavior and weather

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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke behavior, smoke management, wind

Large fire winds, gases and smoke

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…
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: convection column, large fires, wind shear, combustion gases