Author: Faith Ann HeinschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conifers
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Characterizing Fire Behavior from Laboratory Burns of Multi-aged, Mixed-conifer Masticated Fuels in the Western United States
Author: Faith Ann HeinschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conifers
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
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.
Handbook of Fire and the Environment
Author: Brian J. MeachamPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030943569
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The fundamental purpose of this handbook is to raise awareness about environmental impacts of fire and fire suppression, primarily within the fire engineering and firefighting communities, but also within the environmental engineering and planning disciplines. The Handbook provides readers with a fundamental understanding of the problem and its magnitude and includes a set of tools and methods for assessing environmental, social and financial impacts, and a set of tools for identifying and selecting appropriate mitigation options.
Fire Behavior in Masticated Forest Fuels
Author: Zachary David LyonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Managers masticate fuels to alter fire behavior, but how the resulting compact fuels burn is poorly understood. We burned 52 lab fuel beds and 75 field plots in 3 replicate, 30-yr old ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) stands in fall after summer 2014 thinning. A mean 367-492 trees ha-1 remained after 30-72% of trees were masticated. Depth (8.1-13.7 cm) and loading (4.5 - 14.4 kg m-2, 45-60% were 0.6 - 2.5 cm). Pine needles facilitated ignition with flame lengths usually
Mass Fires and Fire Behavior
Author: Clive M. CountrymanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fires
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Predictions of Fire Behavior and Resistance to Control for Use with Photo Series for the Sierra Mixed Conifer Type and the Sierra True Fir Type
Author: Franklin R. WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conifers
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Fuel Models to Predict Fire Behavior in Untreated Conifer Slash
Author: Lucy Anne SalazarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Introduction to the Fundamentals of Fire Behavior
Author: United States. Forest ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
FIRESUM--an Ecological Process Model for Fire Succession in Western Conifer Forests
Author: Robert E. KeanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conifers
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Fire Spread Characteristics Determined in the Laboratory
Author: Richard C. RothermelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flame spread
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Fuel beds of ponderosa pine needles and white pine needles were burned under controlled environmental conditions to determine the effects of fuel moisture and windspeed upon the rate of fire spread. Empirical formulas are presented to show the effect of these parameters. A discussion of rate of spread and some simple experiments show how fuel may be preheated before the fire reaches the fuel. The interrelationship between unit energy release rate and rate of spread produces a fire characteristics curve. Diffusion flame analysis shows good agreement when working with 1/2-inch stick fires.