Author: Glen A. MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildfires
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
A Simple Method for Computing Spotting Distances from Wind-driven Surface Fires
Author: Glen A. MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildfires
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Techniques for implementing the individual tree selection method in the grand fir-cedar-hemlock ecosystems of northern Idaho
Author: Russell T. GrahamResearch Note INT
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ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
General Technical Report INT.
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ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Potential Spotting Distance from Wind-driven Surface Fires
Author: Frank A. AlbiniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
BEHAVE
Author: Patricia L. AndrewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire testing
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This is the third publication describWilding the BEHAVE system of computer programs for predicting behavior of wildland fires. This publication adds the following predictive capabilities: distance firebrands are lofted ahead of a wind-driven surface fire, probabilities of firebrands igniting spot fires, scorch height of trees, and percentage of tree mortality. The system includes a separate module for graphing moisture content of fine, dead fuels. Basic assumptions, limitations, and application of the prediction models are discussed. Previous publications in the BEHAVE series are BEHAVE: fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system-FUEL subsystem (Burgan and Rothermel 1984), and BEHAVE: fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system-BURN subsystem, Part 1 (Andrews 1986).
Fire Science
Author: Francisco Castro RegoPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030698157
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
This textbook provides students and academics with a conceptual understanding of fire behavior and fire effects on people and ecosystems to support effective integrated fire management. Through case studies, interactive spreadsheets programmed with equations and graphics, and clear explanations, the book provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional readers with a straightforward learning path. The authors draw from years of experience in successfully teaching fundamental concepts and applications, synthesizing cutting-edge science, and applying lessons learned from fire practitioners. We discuss fire as part of environmental and human health. Our process-based, comprehensive, and quantitative approach encompasses combustion and heat transfer, and fire effects on people, plants, soils, and animals in forest, grassland, and woodland ecosystems from around the Earth. Case studies and examples link fundamental concepts to local, landscape, and global fire implications, including social-ecological systems. Globally, fire science and integrated fire management have made major strides in the last few decades. Society faces numerous fire-related challenges, including the increasing occurrence of large fires that threaten people and property, smoke that poses a health hazard, and lengthening fire seasons worldwide. Fires are useful to suppress fires, conserve wildlife and habitat, enhance livestock grazing, manage fuels, and in ecological restoration. Understanding fire science is critical to forecasting the implication of global change for fires and their effects. Increasing the positive effects of fire (fuels reduction, enhanced habitat for many plants and animals, ecosystem services increased) while reducing the negative impacts of fires (loss of human lives, smoke and carbon emissions that threaten health, etc.) is part of making fires good servants rather than bad masters.
Recent Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
White Pine Blister Rust in Northern Idaho and Western Montana
Author: David N. ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blister rust
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Fire in California's Ecosystems
Author: Jan W. van WagtendonkPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520961919
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
Fire in California’s Ecosystems describes fire in detail—both as an integral natural process in the California landscape and as a growing threat to urban and suburban developments in the state. Written by many of the foremost authorities on the subject, this comprehensive volume is an ideal authoritative reference tool and the foremost synthesis of knowledge on the science, ecology, and management of fire in California. Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology, including overviews of historical fires, vegetation, climate, weather, fire as a physical and ecological process, and fire regimes, and reviews the interactions between fire and the physical, plant, and animal components of the environment. Part Two explores the history and ecology of fire in each of California's nine bioregions. Part Three examines fire management in California during Native American and post-Euro-American settlement and also current issues related to fire policy such as fuel management, watershed management, air quality, invasive plant species, at-risk species, climate change, social dynamics, and the future of fire management. This edition includes critical scientific and management updates and four new chapters on fire weather, fire regimes, climate change, and social dynamics.