Assessing forest vegetation and fire simulation model performance after the Cold Springs wildfire, Washington USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 287, Issue , 2013, Pages 40-52

  Hummel, Susan ^a   Kennedy, Maureen ^b   Ashley Steel, E ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire behavior and effects; Forest structure; Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and FFE FVS; Multi criteria assessment; Pareto optimality

Indexed keywords

FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST STRUCTURE; FOREST VEGETATION SIMULATOR; MULTI-CRITERIA ASSESSMENT; PARETO-OPTIMALITY;

FIRES; FORESTRY; FUELS; METEOROLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUELWOOD; LITTER; MORTALITY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATOR; STAND STRUCTURE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WEATHER STATION; WILDFIRE;

FIRES; FORESTRY; FUELS; METEOROLOGY; PLANTS; SIMULATION;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84867748320     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.08.031     Document Type: Article

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