- Title:
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Forest Flammability: How fire works and what it means for fuel control
- Date:
- December 2009
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
- Fire Note 49 - Forest Flammability is a next-generation fire behaviour model that reveals the complex links between fire behaviour and forest ecology.
Overview
Forest Flammability is a next-generation fire behaviour model that reveals the complex links between fire behaviour and forest ecology. It calculates the role and importance of different fuel components, species’ change, live fuel moisture and other factors. Fire behaviour is calculated as a physical process determined by the flammability of individual fuel components and the transfer of heat between them. This allows more fully informed decisions on fire management to be made, with the potential to take into account weather scenarios and the effects of climate change.
