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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