Smoke impacts from prescribed burning in Victoria; developing a risk climatology

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 200-206

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

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BUSHFIRE COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fuel reduction burning; Screening modelling; Screening tools; Smoke hazard; Transport modelling

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; EXTREME WEATHER; FIRES; FUELS; HAZARDS; LANDFORMS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OVENS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; RISK PERCEPTION; RIVER POLLUTION; SMOKE; WIND;

AIR POLLUTION MODELING; CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; FUEL REDUCTION; SCREENING APPROACHES; SCREENING TOOL; SMOKE HAZARDS; TRANSPORT MODELLING; WIND SPEED AND DIRECTIONS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85080932650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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