- Author
- Catchpole, E. A. | Alexander, M. E. | Gill, A. M.
- Title
- Elliptical-Fire Perimeter- and Area-Intensity Distributions.
- Coporate
- New South Wales Univ., Canberra, Australia Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Melbourne, Australia
- Journal
- Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vol. 22, No. 7, 968-972, July 1992
- Keywords
- wildland fires | equations | forest fires | grasslands | fire behavior | methodology | ignition point
- Identifiers
- determining the proportion of the total perimeter; area burned for a simple elliptically shaped fire; specified range of Byram's fireline intensities; head-fire intensity; elliptical shape factor; backfire spread rate