Wildfire evolution in the convective boundary layer

17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 27th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 17th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sun, Ruiyu ^a   Krueger, Steven K ^a   Zulauf, Michael A ^a   Jenkins, Mary Ann ^b   Charney, Joseph J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

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