Assessing fire propagation empirical models in shrub fuel complexes using wind tunnel data

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 119, Issue , 2008, Pages 121-130

  Marino, E ^a   Guijarro, M ^a   Madrigal, J ^a   Hernando, C ^a   Diez, C ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

Empirical models; Fire behaviour; Pterospartum tridentatum (L.) Willk; Rate of spread; Shrubland; Ulex europaeus L.

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; LEGUME; SHRUBLAND; WILDFIRE; WIND TUNNEL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GALICIA [SPAIN]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

PTEROSPARTUM TRIDENTATUM; ULEX EUROPAEUS;

EID: 58849121878     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/FIVA080131     Document Type: Article

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