Surface fire intensity influences simulated crown fire behavior in lodgepole pine forests with recent mountain pine beetle-caused tree mortality

Forest Science

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 390-399

  Hoffman, Chad M ^a   Morgan, Penelope ^b   Mell, William ^c   Parsons, Russell ^c   Strand, Eva ^b   Cook, Steve ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Fire hazard; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CROWN FIRE BEHAVIORS; FIRE DYNAMICS SIMULATOR; HETEROGENEOUS FUELS; LODGEPOLE PINE FORESTS; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; TREE MORTALITY; WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; URBAN GROWTH;

FIRES;

FLUID DYNAMICS; FOREST FIRES; INSECTS; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 84883098371     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/forsci.11-114     Document Type: Article

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