Wind and slope effects on ROS during the fire propagation in East-Mediterranean pine forest litter

Fire Safety Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 764-769

  Boboulos, Miltiadis ^a   Purvis, M R I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fire experimental burns; Fire spread rate; Greece; Pinus halepensis needles; Pinus pinaster needles; Statistical processing

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FORESTRY; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WIND SPEED;

FIRE EXPERIMENTAL BURN; FIRE PROPAGATION; FIRE SPREAD; FIRE SPREAD RATE; GREECE; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PINUS HALEPENSIS NEEDLE; PINUS PINAST NEEDLE; PINUS PINASTER; STATISTICAL PROCESSING;

NEEDLES;

EQUATIONS; EXPERIMENTATION; FIRES; FORESTRY; MODELS; NEEDLES; PINUS HALEPENSIS; PINUS PINASTER; PROCESSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SAMPLES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WIND;

EID: 67349134166     PISSN: 03797112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2009.03.006     Document Type: Article

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