Author : Joe H. Scott
Release : 2006
Genre : Flame spread
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Comparison of Crown Fire Modeling Systems Used in Three Fire Management Applications by : Joe H. Scott

Download or read book Comparison of Crown Fire Modeling Systems Used in Three Fire Management Applications written by Joe H. Scott. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relative behavior of surface-crown fire spread rate modeling systems used in three fire management applications-CFIS (Crown Fire Initiation and Spread), FlamMap and NEXUS- is compared using fire environment characteristics derived from a dataset of destructively measured canopy fuel and associated stand characteristics. Although the surface-crown modeling systems predict the same basic fire behavior characteristics (type of fire, spread rate) using the same basic fire environment characteristics, their results differ considerably. Across the range of inputs used in these comparisons, CFIS predicted the highest incidence of crown fire and the highest resulting spread rates, whereas FlamMap predicted the lowest crown fire incidence and lowest spread rates. NEXUS predictions fell between those two systems.