Wind and slope effects on laboratory-scale fire behavior
Description
Wind and slope interaction effects on rate of spread, flame length and flame angle were examined in 65 fires in an open-topped tilting wind tunnel. Fuel beds consisted of vertically-oriented birch sticks and horizontally oriented aspen excelsior. A complete factorial experiment with five wind velocities (-1.1 to 1.1 meters/second) and five slope angles (-30 to 30%) arranged in a randomized complete block design was replicated twice. Flame rate of spread, flame height, and flame angle were measured using thermocouples and video imagery. Moisture content of 60 fires was 11%; 5 fires had a fuel moisture content of 35%. This data publication includes data summarizing the 65 fires, velocity profiles measured in the wind tunnel, and raw thermocouple data for the 65 fires.
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https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/content/items/fa54f9054014422481ff399193673675/info/metadata/metadata.xml?format=iso19139 |
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https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/documents/usfs::wind-and-slope-effects-on-laboratory-scale-fire-behavior |
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https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2017-0018 |
Tags
- environment
- open-data
- prescribed-fire
- betula-papyrifera
- plants
- flame-angle
- elevation
- pre-suppression
- fire
- flame-length
- rda
- id-345421
- fire-behavior
- fire-suppression
- dry-branch-post-office
- quaking-aspen
- rate-of-spread
- multiple-species
- populus-tremuloides
- white-birch