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Evaluating winds aloft by a simplified field technique

A field technique for evaluating winds aloft is described. It can be used at remote places-even at the site of a wildfire. It has proved accurate as any known single theodolite technique, and is time-saving because the winds aloft are evaluated in miles per hour from direct…
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: wind velocity, winds aloft, air quality, fire management, fire suppression, wildfires, wind

Fire whirlwinds in the laboratory

[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