Shorter contribution modelling fire weather and fire spread rates for two bushfires near Sydney

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 241-246

  Speer, Milton S ^a   Leslie, L M ^b   Morison, R ^b   Catchpole, W ^c   Bradstock, R ^d   Bunker, R ^e  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^e New South Wales Rural Fire Service   (Australia)

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