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Explore the intricate world of wildland fire with 'Wildland Fire Behaviour: Dynamics, Principles and Processes.' This essential guide examines the crucial role that wildfires play in maintaining our forests, shrublands, and grasslands. Understanding wildland fire behaviour is vital for scientists, ecologists, and land managers alike, as it informs both controlled burns and our approaches to managing free-burning wildfires.
With a focus on the interplay of physical processes, biological factors, and environmental conditions, this book helps you comprehend how fires spread, how long they burn, and how to predict their behaviour across diverse landscapes. Discover insights into the complexities of fire dynamics, from combustion and ignition to the factors contributing to extensive conflagrations that can last for months.
Written by leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource breaks down fire behaviour into its primary components while using nonlinear models to elucidate system dynamics. Learn about the limitations of existing knowledge and modelling techniques, highlighted through real-world examples of large fire behaviours. This book is a must-have for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of wildfire science and enhance their ability to manage fire-prone landscapes sustainably.
(Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.)
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled..
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781486309085
Year: 2021
Publisher: CSIRO
Description:
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 wi
With a focus on the interplay of physical processes, biological factors, and environmental conditions, this book helps you comprehend how fires spread, how long they burn, and how to predict their behaviour across diverse landscapes. Discover insights into the complexities of fire dynamics, from combustion and ignition to the factors contributing to extensive conflagrations that can last for months.
Written by leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource breaks down fire behaviour into its primary components while using nonlinear models to elucidate system dynamics. Learn about the limitations of existing knowledge and modelling techniques, highlighted through real-world examples of large fire behaviours. This book is a must-have for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of wildfire science and enhance their ability to manage fire-prone landscapes sustainably.
(Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.)
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled..
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781486309085
Year: 2021
Publisher: CSIRO
Description:
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 wi