Stochastic representation of fire behavior in a wildland fire protection planning model for California

Forest Science

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 492-499

  Gilless, J Keith ^a   Fried, Jeremy S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burning index; CFES2; Fire; Fire rate of spread; Initial attack

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032751282     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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