Uncertainty associated with model predictions of surface and crown fire rates of spread

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 47, Issue , 2013, Pages 16-28

  Cruz, Miguel G ^a,b   Alexander, Martin E ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fire behaviour; Fire dynamics; Fire environment; Fire modelling; Model applicability; Model input accuracy

Indexed keywords

FIRE BEHAVIOUR; FIRE DYNAMICS; FIRE ENVIRONMENT; FIRE MODELLING; MODEL INPUTS;

FORECASTING;

FIRES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HOMOGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878830129     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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