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This paper describes the results of examining the influence of radiative heat transfer on turbulent natural convection above fires in an atmosphere of constant potential temperature, under both the 'opaque' and 'transparent' approximations. It turns out that on the basis of the…
Person:
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: convection, cover, energy, fire size, heat, physics, smoke behavior, smoke management, temperature

From the text ... 'Early and reliable detection of forest fires is the keystone of efficient fire control. It means the discovery of fires while they are small and results in lower suppression costs and damages. Private, State, and Federal fire-protection agencies throughout the…
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Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Logistics, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire control, fire equipment, fire management, fire protection, light, roads, smoke behavior, wildfires

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

[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

Late in 1961 the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory initiated a fire detection research program. The primary objective of this program is the development of a system capable of detecting both man-caused and lightning-caused fires day or night through all normally encountered…
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Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: conservation, fire control, lightning caused fires, Montana, photography, Picea engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, remote sensing, smoke management, spot fires

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