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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, bibliographies, British Columbia, browse, Canada, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, forest management, grazing, land management, litter, logging, plant growth, Populus tremuloides, regeneration, runoff, seedlings, site treatments, slash, soils, streamflow, water quality, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Canada, chaparral, fire management, fire whirls, firebrands, firebreaks, firing techniques, fuel moisture, fuel types, grass fuels, marshes, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, shrub fuels, slash, smoke management, topography
From the text...'The purpose of this guide is to assist in the operational monitoring and evaluation of prescribed fires. A common approach to monitoring and evaluation will enable prescribed fire managers and resource specialists in different organizations and areas to share…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass, distribution, flame length, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, ground cover, hydrology, live fuels, population density, rate of spread, smoke behavior, soils, species diversity (plants), topography, vegetation surveys, water, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
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…
Person:
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
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…
Person:
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