Comparison of Crown Fire Modeling Systems Used in Three Fire Management Applications
Title | Comparison of Crown Fire Modeling Systems Used in Three Fire Management Applications PDF eBook |
Author | Joe H. Scott |
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Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Flame spread |
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Comparison of Crown Fire Modeling Systems Used in Three Fire Management Applications
Title | Comparison of Crown Fire Modeling Systems Used in Three Fire Management Applications PDF eBook |
Author | Joe H. Scott |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 25 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Flame spread |
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The relative behavior of surface-crown fire spread rate modeling systems used in three fire management applications-CFIS (Crown Fire Initiation and Spread), FlamMap and NEXUS- is compared using fire environment characteristics derived from a dataset of destructively measured canopy fuel and associated stand characteristics. Although the surface-crown modeling systems predict the same basic fire behavior characteristics (type of fire, spread rate) using the same basic fire environment characteristics, their results differ considerably. Across the range of inputs used in these comparisons, CFIS predicted the highest incidence of crown fire and the highest resulting spread rates, whereas FlamMap predicted the lowest crown fire incidence and lowest spread rates. NEXUS predictions fell between those two systems.
Comparison of Crown Fire Modeling Systems Used in Three Fire Management Applications
Title | Comparison of Crown Fire Modeling Systems Used in Three Fire Management Applications PDF eBook |
Author | Joe H. Scott |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Flame spread |
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Research Paper RMRS
Title | Research Paper RMRS PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Forests and forestry |
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Guidance on spatial wildland fire analysis
Title | Guidance on spatial wildland fire analysis PDF eBook |
Author | Richard D. Stratton |
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Total Pages | 18 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Wildfires |
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Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models
Title | Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models PDF eBook |
Author | Joe H. Scott |
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Total Pages | 84 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Fire management |
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This report describes a new set of standard fire behavior fuel models for use with Rothermels surface fire spread model and the relationship of the new set to the original set of 13 fire behavior fuel models. To assist with transition to using the new fuel models, a fuel model selection guide, fuel model crosswalk, and set of fuel model photos are provided.
General Technical Report RMRS
Title | General Technical Report RMRS PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Total Pages | 20 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Forests and forestry |
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