Assessing the exposure risk of regional populations to smoke from fires

Proceedings - 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, MODSIM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 193-199

  Meyer, C P ^a,b   Cope, M ^a,b   Lee, S ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Fuel reduction burning; Smoke hazard; Transport modelling; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

BIOHAZARDS; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BIOMASS-BURNING; FUEL REDUCTION; SMOKE HAZARDS; TRANSPORT MODELLING; WILDFIRES;

SMOKE;

EID: 85016268251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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