Forest fires : detection, suppression and prevention
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Forest fires : detection, suppression and prevention
(Natural disaster research, prediction and mitigation series)
Nova Science Publishers, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A forest fire is any uncontrolled, non-structure fire that occurs in the wilderness. Wildlife behaviour is often complex and variably dependent on factors such as fuel type, moisture content in the fuel, humidity, windspeed, topology, geographic location and ambient temperature. Weather patterns, such as heat waves droughts can also have a dramatic impact on the onset and outcome of wildfires. Fire is sometimes essential for forest regeneration, however, it often destroys forests and has dire social and economic consequences. This book looks at the underlying causes of forest fires, their ecological effects and preventive strategies.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Vertical Atmosphere and Fire
- A Simulation Tool for Socio-economic Planning on Forest Fire Suppression Management
- Wildfire In Deliblatska Pescara (Serbia) -- Case Analysis
- Variation of spatial fire behavior based on changes of forest fuel loadings
- On Vegetation Modelling For Forest Fires Combustion Models
- Potential for advancing fire research in Amazonia by integrating ground-based, remote-sensing and modeling studies for the region
- Improvement of the gas oxidation modelling in wildland fires
- Detection of the positions and computing the rate of spread of fire fronts using a radiative flame model and inverse method
- Factor Analysis applied to fire temperature effects on water quality
- On Mathematical Foundations of Elliptical Forest Fire Spread Model
- Use Of Superabsorbents For Forest Fire Fighting
- Large Scale Forest Fires in Alaska: Detection and Prevention
- Index.
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