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From the text... 'An ideal forest fire detection system would detect fires the instant they start, day or night, under any condition of visibility. Additionally, it could distinguish potentially dangerous fires from those that would not concern fire suppression forces. Although…
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conservation, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, remote sensing, smoke behavior, wildfires
Mass fires are being investigated through a series of large-scale test fires. Preliminary results indicate: (a) air flow patterns that create eddies can result in fire vortices when fires is present; (b) the lower part of the convection column consists of a series of small…
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, chaparral, combustion, convection, field experimental fires, fire size, fire suppression, fire whirls, fuel moisture, gases, heat effects, heavy fuels, humidity, ignition, Juniperus, laboratory fires, Pinus edulis, statistical analysis, temperature, topography, vortices, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
The Prescribed Burn Fireclimate Survey 1-57 was the first of four prescribed burn surveys in 1957. In this burn we were looking particularly for effects of fire on the wind patterns on the lee side of the fire. Instrumentation, observation techniques, and data collected were…
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Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: brush, distribution, field experimental fires, firing techniques, grasses, pine, Pinus sabiniana, Quercus, range management, rangelands, rate of spread, sloping terrain, smoke effects, topography, weather observations, wind
A cinematographic film of a tornado which formed over a severe bushfire in 1962 in Victoria has been analysed. Notable findings are that a flame rose in the core to a height of 260 feet, that the core velocities were up to 205 m.p.h. vertically, at least 20-30 m.p.h.…
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: flame height, flame length, wind, Australia, fire whirls, blowup fires, tornadoes, blowup, climatology, fire management, fire weather, gases, ignition, overstory, photography, remote sensing, topography, trees, Victoria, weather observations, wildfires
The control of large fires is a problem of continuing concern to the Forest Service, other public agencies, and private owners of forest and rangeland. A few large fires each year account for all but a small share of the Nation's forest fire losses. In time of war, this problem…
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conflagration, convection column, fire spread, fire storm, fuel, mass fire, fuel bed, fatalities, air flow
Post-harvest burning of straw and stubble in grass fields is the most valuable cultural practice in grass-seed production in Oregon. Unfortunately, smoke from burning fields sometimes creates a nuisance to others who understandably question the idea. This discussion is presented…
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, annual plants, chemistry, fertilization, fire hazard reduction, fungi, grasses, grasslands, herbicides, nutrient cycling, Oregon, perennial plants, plant diseases, plant nutrients, rangelands, reproduction, season of fire, seeds, site treatments, smoke management, soil nutrients, temperature, weed control
The importance of fire for the regeneration of the forests has never been so topical as in our days, when increasing use is made of controlled burning in the interests of forestry. In 1955 about 40,000 hectares of forest land, belonging to the Forest Service and the companies,…
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Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Muddus National Park, Sweden, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, ash, Betula pubescens, Betula verrucosa, cover, Calluna vulgaris, charcoal, Ceratodon purpureus, Cladina spp., Deschampsia flexuosa, Empetrum hermaphroditum, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, forest management, hardwood forest, heathlands, humus, leaves, lichens, litter, Luzula spp., Marchantia polymorpha, mycorrhiza, national parks, pH, Picea abies, pine forests, Pinus sylvestris, pioneer species, Pleurozium schreberi, Polytrichum juniperinum, Polytrichum piliferum, Populus tremula, post-fire recovery, reforestation, regeneration, Rubus idaeus, seed dispersal, seedlings, smoke effects, soil temperature, soils, Stereocaulon spp., temperature, thinning, trees, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, vegetation surveys, wildfires