- Author
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Zhou, X.
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Weise, D.
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Mahalingam, S.
- Title
- Experimental Measurements and Numerical Modeling of Marginal Burning in Live Chaparral Fuel Beds.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Riverside
USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA
- Book or Conf
- Combustion Institute, Symposium (International) on Combustion, 30th. Proceedings. Volume 30. Part 2. July 25-30, 2004,
Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA,
Chicago, IL,
Chen, J. H.; Colket, M. D.; Barlow, R. S.; Yetter, R. A., Editors,
2287-2294 p.,
2005
- Keywords
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combustion
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fuel beds
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chaparral
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fire spread
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experiments
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wind effects
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moisture content
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heat transfer
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fire behavior
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statistical analysis
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validation
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equations
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prescribed burning
- Identifiers
- marginal burning of live chaparral shrub fuels that grow in the mountains of southern California; BEHAVE and FIRECAST both computer implementations of the Rothermel spread model [3], are used to estimate fire behavior under various weather setting; summary of fire spread success in live chaparral fuels; Wilson's rule applied to live fuels; validation of Wilson's rule for fire spread success in chamise fuel beds; results of logistic regression analysis