Development and Structure of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System
Author : C. E. Van Wagner
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fire weather
ISBN :
Development and Structure of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System
Author : Canada. Forestry Canada. Fire Danger Group
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Book Description
The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System is a subsystem of the larger Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System, which also includes the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The FBP system provides quantitative estimates of head fire spread rate, fuel consumption, fire intensity and fire description and gives estimates of fire area, perimeter, perimeter growth rate and flank and back fire behaviour. This report describes the structure and content of the system and its use with forest fire characteristics.
Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System
Author : Kelvin G. Hirsch
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Book Description
The Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System provides a systematic method of assessing fire behaviour. The FBP System has 14 primary inputs that can be divided into 5 general categories: fuels, weather, topography, foliar moisture content, and type and duration of prediction. In the FBP System these inputs are used to mathematically develop 4 primary and 11 secondary outputs. Primary outputs are generally based on a fire intensity equation, and secondary outputs are calculated using a simple elliptical fire growth model. This publication provides diagrams, examples, and exercises that explain the FBP System in a user-oriented manner. This guideline delineates the interpretation of the FBP System's inputs and outputs and details how the predictions are derived.
Field Guide to the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System
Author : Stephen William Taylor
Publisher : Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Book Description
The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) system is a systematic method for assessing wildland fire behaviour potential. Presented in tabular format, this guide provides a simplified version of the system and is designed to assist field staff in making approximations of FBP System outputs.
General Technical Report INT.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN :
Book Description
Wildland Fire Danger Estimation and Mapping
Author : Emilio Chuvieco
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789812791177
Book Description
The book presents a wide range of techniques for extracting information from satellite remote sensing images in forest fire danger assessment. It covers the main concepts involved in fire danger rating, and analyses the inputs derived from remotely sensed data for mapping fire danger at both the local and global scale. The questions addressed concern the estimation of fuel moisture content, the description of fuel structural properties, the estimation of meteorological danger indices, the analysis of human factors associated with fire ignition, and the integration of different risk factors in a geographic information system for fire danger management.
Tables for the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System
Author : Canadian Forestry Service
Publisher : Environment Canada, Canadian Forestry Service
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Book Description
Fourth edition of tables for calculating the six standardcomponents of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. Thefirst three components are fuel moisture codes that follow dailychanges in the moisture contents of three classes of forestsfuel; the final three are fire behaviour indexes that representrate of spread, amount of available fuel, and fire intensity. The system provides a uniform method of rating fire danger acrossCanada.
Cold Region Atmospheric and Hydrologic Studies. The Mackenzie GEWEX Experience
Author : Ming-ko Woo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,1 MB
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 354073936X
Book Description
This book presents decade-long advances in atmospheric research in the Mackenzie River Basin in northern Canada, which encompasses environments representative of the coldest areas on Earth. Collaborative efforts by a team of about 100 scientists and engineers have yielded knowledge entirely transferable to other high latitude regions in America, Europe and Asia.
Weather Guide for the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
Author : B. D. Lawson
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fire risk assessment
ISBN :
Book Description
This weather guide includes detailed specifications for locating and instrumenting fire weather stations, taking weather observations, and overwintering the Drought Code component of the FWI System. The sensitivity of the FWI System components to weather elements is represented quantitatively. The importance of weather that is not directly observable is discussed in the context of fuel moisture and fire behavior. Current developments in the observation and measurement of fire weather and the forecasting of fire danger are discussed, along with the implications for the reporting of fire weather of increasingly automated fire management information systems.
Proceedings RMRS.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Forest fires
ISBN :
