- Author
- National Academy of Sciences | National Research Council
- Title
- Study of Fire Problems.
- Coporate
- National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC National Research Council, Washington, DC
- Report
- Publication 949, 1961, 183 p.
- Book or Conf
- Study of Fire Problems. Proceedings. July 17-August 11, 1961, Woods Hole, MA, 1961
- Keywords
- fire research | costs | fire protection | forest fires | fire spread | fire models | fuels | humidity | flame radiation | wind effects | wildland fires | urban/wildland interface
- Identifiers
- general features of the fire problem; economic aspects of fire; organization and operations of urban- and forest-fire protection; toward an understanding of fire; fire-front propagation; fuel characteristics of a forest; radiative transport problems arising in fire spread; effect of atmospheric humidity; estimation of winds in a forest; operations research in forest fire problems