Eruptive Behaviour of Forest Fires

Fire Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-320

  Viegas, D X ^a   Simeoni, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Blow up; Eruptive fire; Extreme fire; Fire behaviour; Fire modelling; Fire safety

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; FIRE HAZARDS;

BLOW-UP; CRITICAL REVIEW; FIRE BEHAVIOUR; FIRE ERUPTION; FIRE FIGHTERS; FIRE MODELLING; FIRE SAFETY; FOREST FIRES;

FIRES;

DEFORESTATION; FIRE FIGHTING; FOREST FIRES; MODELS; SAFETY;

EID: 78751578903     PISSN: 00152684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10694-010-0193-6     Document Type: Review

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