Session 5 Core Fire Science

Thursday, 27 October 2005: 8:30 AM-10:15 AM
Ladyslipper (Radisson Canmore Hotel and Conference Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Organizer:
Colin C. Hardy, USDA Forest Service, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT

Papers:
8:30 AM
5.1
The effect of solar insolation on the burning rate of shallow fuel beds
B. W. Butler, USDA, Missoula, MT
Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (161.8 kB)

5.2
An integrated real-time system for prescribed fire management

9:00 AM
5.3
Improved models of forest and wildland-urban-interface fires
Ronald Rehm, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and W. Mell
Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (137.4 kB)

9:15 AM
5.4
Experiments and modeling of fire spread through individual trees
William Mell, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and A. Maranghides and R. Rehm
Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (350.0 kB)

9:30 AM
5.5
Correlation of mass loss rate and flame height for live fuels
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA; and T. H. Fletcher, S. Mahalingam, X. Zhou, S. Smith, and L. Sun
Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (156.1 kB)

9:45 AM
5.6
Fire danger rating in the United States: an evolution since 1916
Colin C. Hardy, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM
5.2A
Measurements of water vapor and CO2 fluxes produced by a prescribed prairie fire using a micrometeorological flux tower and tethered balloon sounding system
Craig B. Clements, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and B. E. Potter, S. Zhong, G. Aumann, M. D. Jiang, S. Street, and M. R. Patel
Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (206.1 kB)

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