Development and Structure of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System

Development and Structure of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System

Author: Canada. Forestry Canada. Fire Danger Group

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System is a subsystem of the larger Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System, which also includes the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The FBP system provides quantitative estimates of head fire spread rate, fuel consumption, fire intensity and fire description and gives estimates of fire area, perimeter, perimeter growth rate and flank and back fire behaviour. This report describes the structure and content of the system and its use with forest fire characteristics.


Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System

Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System

Author: Kelvin G. Hirsch

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 136

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The Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System provides a systematic method of assessing fire behaviour. The FBP System has 14 primary inputs that can be divided into 5 general categories: fuels, weather, topography, foliar moisture content, and type and duration of prediction. In the FBP System these inputs are used to mathematically develop 4 primary and 11 secondary outputs. Primary outputs are generally based on a fire intensity equation, and secondary outputs are calculated using a simple elliptical fire growth model. This publication provides diagrams, examples, and exercises that explain the FBP System in a user-oriented manner. This guideline delineates the interpretation of the FBP System's inputs and outputs and details how the predictions are derived.


Tables for the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System

Tables for the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System

Author: Canadian Forestry Service

Publisher: Environment Canada, Canadian Forestry Service

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13:

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Fourth edition of tables for calculating the six standardcomponents of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. Thefirst three components are fuel moisture codes that follow dailychanges in the moisture contents of three classes of forestsfuel; the final three are fire behaviour indexes that representrate of spread, amount of available fuel, and fire intensity. The system provides a uniform method of rating fire danger acrossCanada.


Field Guide to the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System

Field Guide to the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System

Author: Stephen William Taylor

Publisher: Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) system is a systematic method for assessing wildland fire behaviour potential. Presented in tabular format, this guide provides a simplified version of the system and is designed to assist field staff in making approximations of FBP System outputs.


Wildland Fire Danger Estimation and Mapping

Wildland Fire Danger Estimation and Mapping

Author: Emilio Chuvieco

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9789812791177

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The book presents a wide range of techniques for extracting information from satellite remote sensing images in forest fire danger assessment. It covers the main concepts involved in fire danger rating, and analyses the inputs derived from remotely sensed data for mapping fire danger at both the local and global scale. The questions addressed concern the estimation of fuel moisture content, the description of fuel structural properties, the estimation of meteorological danger indices, the analysis of human factors associated with fire ignition, and the integration of different risk factors in a geographic information system for fire danger management.


Cold Region Atmospheric and Hydrologic Studies. The Mackenzie GEWEX Experience

Cold Region Atmospheric and Hydrologic Studies. The Mackenzie GEWEX Experience

Author: Ming-ko Woo

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-01-08

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 354073936X

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This book presents decade-long advances in atmospheric research in the Mackenzie River Basin in northern Canada, which encompasses environments representative of the coldest areas on Earth. Collaborative efforts by a team of about 100 scientists and engineers have yielded knowledge entirely transferable to other high latitude regions in America, Europe and Asia.