Coupled fire–atmosphere modeling of wildland fire spread using DEVS-FIRE and ARPS

Natural Hazards

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1013-1035

  Dahl, Nathan ^a   Xue, Haidong ^b   Hu, Xiaolin ^b   Xue, Ming ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete event specification; Moore Branch Fire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939984057     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1640-y     Document Type: Article

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