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Project Skyfire: cloud and lightning observation handbook

From the text 'This handbook is intended as a reference booklet for the forest— fire lookouts who are cooperating on Project Skyfire. Project Sky*fire has 2 broad objectives: (1) to gain a better understanding of the occurrence, behavior, and control of lightning fires, and (2)…
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Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: fire control, fire management, fire suppression, hardwood forests, lightning, lightning caused fires, pine forests, smoke management, storms, weather observations, wildfires

Possible causes of blowup fires

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Year: 1955
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: blowups, catastrophic fires, fire control, fire danger rating, fire suppression, rate of spread, spot fires, statistical analysis, wind