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Wildland Fire Behaviour - Dynamics, Principles and Processes (Paperback)
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Wildland Fire Behaviour - Dynamics, Principles and Processes (Paperback)
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Wildland fires have an irreplaceable role in sustaining many of our
forests, shrublands and grasslands. They can be used as controlled
burns or occur as free-burning wildfires, and can sometimes be
dangerous and destructive to fauna, human communities and natural
resources. Through scientific understanding of their behaviour, we
can develop the tools to reliably use and manage fires across
landscapes in ways that are compatible with the constraints of
modern society while benefiting the ecosystems. The science of
wildland fire is incomplete, however. Even the simplest fire
behaviours - how fast they spread, how long they burn and how large
they get - arise from a dynamical system of physical processes
interacting in unexplored ways with heterogeneous biological,
ecological and meteorological factors across many scales of time
and space. The physics of heat transfer, combustion and ignition,
for example, operate in all fires at millimetre and millisecond
scales but wildfires can become conflagrations that burn for months
and exceed millions of hectares. Wildland Fire Behaviour: Dynamics,
Principles and Processes examines what is known and unknown about
wildfire behaviours. The authors introduce fire as a dynamical
system along with traditional steady-state concepts. They then
break down the system into its primary physical components,
describe how they depend upon environmental factors, and explore
system dynamics by constructing and exercising a nonlinear model.
The limits of modelling and knowledge are discussed throughout but
emphasised by review of large fire behaviours. Advancing knowledge
of fire behaviours will require a multidisciplinary approach and
rely on quality measurements from experimental research, as covered
in the final chapters.
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