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Author
Zhou, X. | Weise, D. | 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
combustion | fuel beds | chaparral | fire spread | experiments | wind effects | moisture content | heat transfer | fire behavior | statistical analysis | validation | equations | 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