- Author
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Catchpole, E. A.
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Alexander, M. E.
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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
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Canadian Journal of Forest Research,
Vol. 22,
No. 7,
968-972,
July 1992
- Keywords
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wildland fires
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equations
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forest fires
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grasslands
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fire behavior
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methodology
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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