Effects of spatial heterogeneity in moisture content on the horizontal spread of peat fires

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 572, Issue , 2016, Pages 1422-1430

  Prat Guitart, Nuria ^a   Rein, Guillermo ^b   Hadden, Rory M ^c   Belcher, Claire M ^d   Yearsley, Jon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breakpoint analysis; Infrared image analysis; Peatland; Propagation; Smouldering; Step change

Indexed keywords

FIRES; INFRARED IMAGING; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BREAKPOINT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; MOISTURE CONTENT GRADIENT; PEATLAND; SMOULDERING; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STEP CHANGES;

PEAT;

PEAT;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST FIRE; HETEROGENEITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEATLAND;

ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIRE; LABORATORY; LANDSCAPE; MOISTURE; PEATLAND; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84961233741     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.145     Document Type: Article

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