Effects of Moisture on Combustion Characteristics of Live California Chaparral and Utah Foliage

Current fire-spread models are based largely on empirical correlations based on fires burning through dead pine needles. There is a need to increase the accuracy of modeling wildfires in live vegetation. This project investigates the quantitative and qualitative ignition characteristics of eight liv...

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Main Author: Smith, Steven G.
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2005
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Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/318
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1317&context=etd