Mechanisms of fire spread research: Progress Report No. 1

Hal E. Anderson

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Mechanisms of fire spread research: Progress Report No. 1

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Hal E. Anderson

Year:

1964

Type:

Research Paper

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Res. Pap. INT-RP-8. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 20 p.

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Abstract

An understanding of fire spread is important to the development of improved methods and systems for the control of free burning fires. Gaining knowledge about fire spread in forest fuels is complex because many variables are involved and because we still lack full understanding of the interaction of these variables. The research reported here involves studies of fire spread in natural forest fuels in which the characteristics of the fuel and the weather environment were controlled.

Keywords

fire spread, free burning, forest fuels

Citation

Anderson, Hal E. 1964. Mechanisms of fire spread research: Progress Report No. 1. Res. Pap. INT-RP-8. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 20 p.