Interactions of Earth's atmospheric oxygen and fuel moisture in smouldering wildfires

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 572, Issue , 2016, Pages 1440-1446

  Huang, Xinyan ^a   Rein, Guillermo ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fire; Ignition; Modelling; Paleo fire; Peat; Soil; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CARBON; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FUELS; GEOLOGY; IGNITION; MODELS; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OXYGEN; PEAT; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS; VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; FLAMING FIRES; FOSSIL RECORDS; FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; OXYGEN-RICH ATMOSPHERES;

FIRES;

FUEL; OXYGEN;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FUEL; MODELING; MOISTURE CONTENT; OXYGEN; PEAT SOIL; PEATLAND; VEGETATION; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FIRE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOISTURE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PEATLAND; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WILDFIRE;

EID: 84964575998     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.02.201     Document Type: Article

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