Comparison of burning characteristics of live and dead chaparral fuels

Combustion and Flame

Volumn 144, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 349-359

  Sun, Lulu ^a   Zhou, Xiangyang ^a   Mahalingam, Shankar ^a   Weise, David R ^b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaparral; Flame height; Infrared; Mass loss rate

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED RADIATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MOISTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VEGETATION;

CHAPARRALS; FLAME HEIGHT; LIVE FUELS; MASS LOSS RATE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

FUEL;

FLAME;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CEANOTHUS; COMBUSTION; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; FLOW RATE; HEAT; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WILDLIFE;

EID: 29244474929     PISSN: 00102180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2005.08.008     Document Type: Article

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