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Latham
Electric field measurements, combined with lightning location data, demonstrate that the plume clouds from large fires can be charged and can generate lightning discharges. The results of measurements made on a prescribed burn show that the charge…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Banta, Olivier, Holloway
The Doppler lidar of NOAA/ERL's Wave Propagation Laboratory (WPL) observed a prescribed forest fire that was ignited in the township of Battersby, Ontario, Canada, on 12 August 1988. During the first hour of the fire the lidar saw the smoke column…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Reutebuch, Hardy
Large-scale aerial photographs of slash piles in harvested units were evaluated with an analytical stereoplotter for determining dimensions and volumes. The photogrammetric method provides accurate and efficient volume estimates for calculating fuel…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown, Turner
Objectives of this study were to test existing prediction equations for duff depth reduction, percentage of duff consumed, and mineral soil exposure to determine the limits of their applicability, and to develop if possible broadly based prediction…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Harrington
Soil moisture was measured in adjacent burned and unburned sites in a ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) stand in Arizona. Thermocouple psychrometers were used to monitor soil water potential for 3 consecutive summer months on sites with a deep…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
McRae, Todd, Ogilvie
The concepts of a Prescribed Fire Ignition Expert System (PFIES) are discussed. The system will be designed to be used in planning any prescribed burn that utilizes the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in setting the weather prescription.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Fuglem, Danard
A major problem with weather data in complex terrain is temporal and spatial interpolation. The British Columbia Forest Service, through the services of Atmospheric Dynamics Corporation, has adapted a meso-scale weather model to provide hourly…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Kanjanakunchorn, Woodard, McDonald
A commonly available plastic garden-type soaker hose was tested in a 'series' configuration to determine the suitability of using this hose type to contain wildland fires. The bursting strength was determined for three hose-types (the RCR-strata, 3-…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Galbraith
Life after logging is the title and message in a series of photographic displays produced by the Canadian Forest Service's Pacific Forest Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, that have been creating a stir throughout North America and in parts of…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Turner, Romme, Gardner, Hargrove
The 1988 Yellowstone fires provided a unique opportunity to examine how the geometry of fire created patches affects plant reestablishment. We initiated studies in 1990 in small (1 ha), moderate (74-200 ha), and large (480-3968 ha) crown-fire…
Year: 1994
Type: Document