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Visualising convective heat transfer in a propagating wildland fire
Bushfires are a large destructive natural hazard, intensified by climate change and increasing human activity into wildland areas. Accurate prediction of fire behaviour is essential for mitigation strategies and emergency response. While radiative heat transfer has traditionally been emphasized in …
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A geospatial tool for assessing potential wildland fire risk in central Texas.
Wildland fires in the United States are not always confined to wilderness areas. The growth of population centers and housing developments in wilderness areas has blurred the boundaries between rural and urban. This merger of human development and natural landscape is known in the wildland fire …
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A Comparative Case Study of Organizational Learning in the Wildland Fire Community
To maintain or improve firefighter safety the United States federal wildland fire organization has sought to improve its organizational learning practice. The organization has developed several structures and processes to assist with this goal. Unfortunately, there are indications the efforts are …
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Determining Public Perceptions toward Wildland Fire in the Veluwe Region of the Netherlands
… has been facing a growing threat of wildfires due to warmer</p> <p>and drier weather patterns. The purpose of this study was to identify public</p> <p>perceptions toward wildland fire in the forested Veluwe region of the country. The</p> <p>Dutch have little experience with wildland fires …
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Fired Up: Scales of Safety and Federal Wildland Fire Management in the U.S.
The wildland fire environment in the U.S. is becoming increasingly complex due to a century of fire suppression policies, development in wildland-urban interface areas, and an expected increase in fire activity due to climate change. As more attention is focused on wildfire management, the role of …
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Wildland Fire in the Central Appalachian Mountains: Impacts on Above- and Belowground Resources
Prescribed fire use in Virginia and West Virginia has increased over the past ten years as forest managers on public lands have increasingly used prescribed fire to meet management goals. These goals include hazardous fuel reduction, wildlife habitat restoration and management, and control of less …
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The Effects of Wildland Fire on a Community: A Study of Bell County, Kentucky
… likelihood that an individual will suffer from a wildland fire. There has been little research produced strictly looking at the human dimensions of wildland fire, especially in southern rural communities (Machlis, Kaplan, Tuler, Bagby, and McKendry 2002). Using two of Kumagai, Carrol, and Cohan's …
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IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WILDLAND FIRE THREAT TO THE AMUR TIGER AND ITS HABITAT
… increase in catastrophic natural events such as wildland fire - one of the dominant disturbance agents in boreal and temperate forests of the Russian Far East (RFE). In the RFE, large fire events lead to abrupt, extensive, and long-term conversion of forests to open landscapes, thus considerably …
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An Assessment of the Viability of LandScan Data to Estimate Structure Location in Wildland Fire Management and Planning
Research indicates firefighting costs in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are highly correlated with the number of homes threatened by wildfire. Therefore, knowing the location of structures is paramount for planners and fire managers attempting to reduce the threats posed to structures by …
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An Assessment of the Viability of LandScan Data to Estimate Structure Location in Wildland Fire Management and Planning
Research indicates firefighting costs in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are highly correlated with the number of homes threatened by wildfire. Therefore, knowing the location of structures is paramount for planners and fire managers attempting to reduce the threats posed to structures by …
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FUELS MANAGEMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE IN THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE
… investigates the history and development of wildland fire and fuels management policy in the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the implementation of this policy in fuels management project planning at the national forest and ranger district levels. The policy guiding fuels management is broad …
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FUELS MANAGEMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE IN THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE
… investigates the history and development of wildland fire and fuels management policy in the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the implementation of this policy in fuels management project planning at the national forest and ranger district levels. The policy guiding fuels management is broad …
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Advancing Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Simulation: Fuel Representation and Fire Spotting
Wildland fires can lead to substantial ecological, social, and economical losses as well as health burdens due to smoke produced from biomass burning. Accurate wildland fire simulation is an essential capability in predicting and managing these losses, benefiting both pre-fire risk mitigation and …
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Private Property Owner Regard of Hazard Fuel Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface
… and justifications for implementing, or not, the fire prevention effort of hazard fuel mitigation. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 42 property owners in the forest proximate community of Seeley Lake, Montana. Using an interpretive approach and grounded theory methodology, …
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Private Property Owner Regard of Hazard Fuel Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface
… and justifications for implementing, or not, the fire prevention effort of hazard fuel mitigation. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 42 property owners in the forest proximate community of Seeley Lake, Montana. Using an interpretive approach and grounded theory methodology, …
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Model Reduction of Nonlinear Fire Dynamics Models
… nature of the mathematical models for fires, current numerical models require too much computational effort to be useful in design and real-time decision making, especially when dealing with fires over large domains. To reduce the computational time while retaining the complexity of the …
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Characterizing Boreal Forest Fire Disturbance Boundaries Through Space And Time In Ontario
… resources but is increasingly threatened by wildland fires, which are becoming more frequent and affecting larger areas due to climate change. In response, this thesis compares wildland fire boundaries derived from vegetation index slopes with those provided by BorealDB a newly developed …
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