Effects of ignition location models on the burn patterns of simulated wildfires

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 583-592

  Bar Massada, Avi ^a   Syphard, Alexandra D ^b   Hawbaker, Todd J ^c   Stewart, Susan I ^d   Radeloff, Volker C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Conservation Biology Institute ^*  (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d US Forest Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn probability; FARSITE; Ignition; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BURN PATTERNS; BURN PROBABILITY; CALIFORNIA; EXTREME WEATHER; FARSITE; FIRE SIMULATION; FIRE SIZE; FIRE SPREAD; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; IGNITION LOCATION; PROBABILITY MAPS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL PREDICTION; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; USE-MODEL; WILDFIRE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRES; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

IGNITION;

CORRELATION; PREDICTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER; WILDFIRE;

EID: 79251599526     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.11.016     Document Type: Article

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