WUIVAC: A wildland-urban interface evacuation trigger model applied in strategic wildfire scenarios

Natural Hazards

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 181-199

  Dennison, Philip E ^a   Cova, Thomas J ^a   Mortiz, Max A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evacuation modeling; Fire behavior; Natural hazards; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

FIRE BEHAVIOR; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; URBAN AREA; WARNING SYSTEM; WILDFIRE; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34147152316     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-006-9032-y     Document Type: Article

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