- 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