BEHAVE: Fire Behavior Prediction and Fuel Modeling System : BURN Subsystem, Part 1U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, 1986 - Fire testing - 130 pages Describes BURN Subsystem, Part 1, the operational fire behavior prediction subsystem of the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. The manual covers operation of the computer program, assumptions of the mathematical models used in the calculations, and application of the predictions. |
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... rate and intensity SIZE CONTAIN SPOT DISPATCH calculates line construction capabilities needed or final fire size ... line number does calculations and prints results Other Keywords QUIT CUSTOM gets back to the previous level in the ...
... rate and intensity SIZE CONTAIN SPOT DISPATCH calculates line construction capabilities needed or final fire size ... line number does calculations and prints results Other Keywords QUIT CUSTOM gets back to the previous level in the ...
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... rate of spread , flame length , fireline intensity , heat per unit area , reaction intensity , effective windspeed ... line construction rate . CONTAIN can also calculate line construction rate needed to hold the burned area to a fixed ...
... rate of spread , flame length , fireline intensity , heat per unit area , reaction intensity , effective windspeed ... line construction rate . CONTAIN can also calculate line construction rate needed to hold the burned area to a fixed ...
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... rate of spread is input as a constant value , area and perimeter decrease with an increase in effective windspeed ... line construction rate . It can also be used to find the line construction rate needed to hold the burned area to a ...
... rate of spread is input as a constant value , area and perimeter decrease with an increase in effective windspeed ... line construction rate . It can also be used to find the line construction rate needed to hold the burned area to a ...
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... line building rates for the 1 -- RUN OPTION -MODE OF ATTACK -RATE OF SPREAD , CH / H INITIAL FIRE SIZE , ACRES 5 -- LENGTH - TO - WIDTH RATIO 7 -LINE BUILDING RATE , CH / H LINE I TOTAL BUILDING I LENGTH RATE I OF LINE 2. COMPUTE BURNED ...
... line building rates for the 1 -- RUN OPTION -MODE OF ATTACK -RATE OF SPREAD , CH / H INITIAL FIRE SIZE , ACRES 5 -- LENGTH - TO - WIDTH RATIO 7 -LINE BUILDING RATE , CH / H LINE I TOTAL BUILDING I LENGTH RATE I OF LINE 2. COMPUTE BURNED ...
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... line - building rate must be specified ( as in exhibit 19 ) . Guidelines for line - building rate are not programmed into BEHAVE . Line construction rates for NFDRS fuel models are published in Fire Management Analysis and Planning ...
... line - building rate must be specified ( as in exhibit 19 ) . Guidelines for line - building rate are not programmed into BEHAVE . Line construction rates for NFDRS fuel models are published in Fire Management Analysis and Planning ...
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0.0 DIRECTION 1-HR FUEL MOISTURE 10--DIRECTION OF SPREAD 20-ft windspeed acres Albini attack BTU/FT/S BTU/SQ.FT Burgan Burn day BURNED AREA CALCULATIONS DEGREES CLOCKWISE CH/H CHANGE CLOCKWISE FROM UPHILL cloud cover CROWN HEIGHT custom fuel models DIRECT KEYWORD DIRECTION OF MAX direction of maximum DISPATCH effective windspeed ENTER INPUT exhibit FILE NAME fire behavior prediction fire management FIRE1 program fireline intensity flame length Forest and Range FOREST BLUE Forest Service fuel model file heat per unit HELP ignition input values INPUT VARIABLES INPUT/OUTPUT Intermountain Forest LINE BUILDING RATE LIST live fuel moisture LIVE WOODY MAX SPREAD maximum spread MI/H MIDFLAME WINDSPEED module NFDRS fuel NFFL fuel models NOPAUSE PAUSE PERCENT SLOPE prescribed fire QUIT RAIN THE WEEK Range Experiment Station rate of spread relative humidity SPREAD CALCULATIONS DEGREES subsystem TERSE torching tree tree height TSTMDL U.S. Department unit area UPHILL 10--DIRECTION wildfire WIND ADJUSTMENT FACTOR WORDY