- Author
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Wright, J. G.
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Beall, H. W.
- Title
- Application of Meteorology to Forest Fire Protection.
- Coporate
- Forest Fire Research Inst., Ontario, Canada
- Report
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Information Report FF-X-11
February 1968
41 p.
- Keywords
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forest fires
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meteorology
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fire protection
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flammability
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forestry
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visibility
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fire danger rating
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weather effects
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rainfall
- Identifiers
- Canada
- Abstract
- The systematic study of the influence of weather upon forest fires is of comparatively recent origin. While forestry has inherited from European sources a considerable volume of literature on silviculture, wood technology, forest pathology and forest entomology, there is no comparable literature on the subject of "forest pyrology", to use an expressive term coined by Gisborne of the United States Forest Service, who has been one of the most prolific writers on this subject. This lack of interest in the subject of forest fires on the part of European foresters indicates that losses from this cause do no loom as large in the national economies of the countries concerned as they do in North America and Australia, to take two outstanding examples. There are several reasons for this, one being that in Europe normal rainfall during the summer season is comparativley more plentiful and frequent, so that there are relatively fewer days on which fires can spread.