Fire behaviour during the Pickering Brook wildfire, January 2005 (Perth Hills Fires 71 - 80)

Conservation Science Western Australia

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 451-468

  Cheney, N P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bushfire; Fuel reduction; Jarrah; Project vesta

Indexed keywords

FIRE BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESCRIBED BURNING; WILDFIRE; WIND VELOCITY;

AUSTRALIA; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA;

EID: 78650533156     PISSN: 14473682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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