A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE DATA PROBLEM IN STUDIES OF WILDLAND FLAMMABILITY,

Abstract

A recently completed analysis of national wildland flammability encountered a number of serious deficiencies in the basic data needed to examine quantitative relationships between weather, fuels, and fire behavior. A fresh appraisal is made of the complex functional relationships among the many variables required to define the degree of fire danger. The relative 'values' of the elemental variables are assessed, and the major deficiency, that of fuel quantification, is discussed in terms of current research programs. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0648527

Entities

People

  • R. E. Huschke

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Deficiencies

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Theoretical Analysis.