FARSITE, Fire Area Simulator--model Development and Evaluation, Issue 4U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 1998 - FARSITE (Computer file) - 47 pages A computer simulation model, FARSITE, includes existing fire behavior models for surface, crown, spotting, point-source fire acceleration, and fuel moisture. The model's components and assumptions are documented. Simulations were run for simple conditions that illustrate the effect of individual fire behavior models on two-dimensional fire growth. |
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active crown fire Albini and Baughman Alexander 1985 algorithm angle calculations Canada Fire Danger canopy cover centroid coefficient color plate Compute constant crown base height crown bulk density crown fire shape crown fire spread crown fuels crown height Danger Group 1992 dimensionless distance resolution drag coefficient effects elliptical dimensions elliptical fire shape ember enclave FARSITE Finney fire acceleration fire behavior models Fire Danger Group fire front fire growth model fire growth simulation fire perimeter fire polygon fire simulations fire spread rate Fireline Intensity KW/m flat terrain Forestry Canada Fire fuel model fuel moisture fuel types Huygens ignition intensity patterns intersections inverse distance weighted landscape lofted particle passive crown fire percent perimeter segment point-source fire radians raster Rcactual Rothermel 1991 shape and intensity spot fires spread distance surface fire spread surface fuel terminal velocity tions topography torching trees tree crowns vertex vertices Wagner wind and slope wind direction windspeed