Influence of altitude and aspect on daily variations in factors of forest fire danger

G. Lloyd Hayes

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Influence of altitude and aspect on daily variations in factors of forest fire danger

Informally Refereed

Authors:

G. Lloyd Hayes

Year:

1941

Type:

Circular

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Circular No. 591. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture. 39 p.

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Abstract

Altitude, in broad subdivisions, exerts recognized and well-understood effects on climate. Aspect further modifies the altitudinal influence. Many publications have dealt with the interrelations of these geographic factors with climate and life zones or have discussed variations of individual weather elements as influenced by local altitude and aspect differences and the resultant effects on vegetation types, frost belts, thermal belts, phenology of plants, water resources, and agricultural economics in mountainous countries. Such variations have never before been systematically investigated, however, to determine their relation to forest-fire control, which in the northern Rocky Mountain region is the vet-unsolved, problem basic to the successful practice of forestry.

Keywords

altitude, forest fire danger, climate, life zones

Citation

Hayes, G. Lloyd. 1941. Influence of altitude and aspect on daily variations in factors of forest fire danger. Circular No. 591. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture. 39 p.