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:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1992
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

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
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1996
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

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.

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
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1997
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

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.

Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models

Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models
Author: Joe H. Scott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2005
Genre: Fire management
ISBN:

This report describes a new set of standard fire behavior fuel models for use with Rothermels surface fire spread model and the relationship of the new set to the original set of 13 fire behavior fuel models. To assist with transition to using the new fuel models, a fuel model selection guide, fuel model crosswalk, and set of fuel model photos are provided.

Development and Structure of Prometheus

Development and Structure of Prometheus
Author: Cordy Tymstra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2009
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Accurate, high-resolution fire behavior prediction is a critical component of fire management decision-making before and during fires. Prometheus is a deterministic fire growth simulation model that was developed to help fire managers to understand the probable consequences of their decisions. It uses spatial input data on topography (slope, aspect, and elevation), fuel types, and weather to simulate fire growth by applying Huygens principle of wave propagation to the rate-of-spread predictions from the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. This approach produces detailed fire perimeters at user-specified display time step intervals. Each active vertex along the perimeter has corresponding fire behavior output. Exported fire perimeters are compatible with geographic information systems. Additionally, three interpolation techniques are available to produce optional raster fire behavior outputs. This report documents the structure of the Prometheus model and an assessment of its performance. The report includes a general discussion of approaches to the modeling of fire growth simulation and explains the vector propagation technique used in Prometheus. The limitations and assumptions of applying the model, as well as the most appropriate directions for future research, are also discussed.

Simulation Modeling of Forest Landscape Disturbances

Simulation Modeling of Forest Landscape Disturbances
Author: Ajith H. Perera
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2015-07-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319198092

Forest landscape disturbances are a global phenomenon. Simulation models are an important tool in understanding these broad scale processes and exploring their effects on forest ecosystems. This book contains a collection of insights from a group of ecologists who address a variety of processes: physical disturbances such as drought, wind, and fire; biological disturbances such as defoliating insects and bark beetles; anthropogenic influences; interactions among disturbances; effects of climate change on disturbances; and the recovery of forest landscapes from disturbances—all from a simulation modeling perspective. These discussions and examples offer a broad synopsis of the state of this rapidly evolving subject.

FARSITE, Fire Area Simulator--model Development and Evaluation

FARSITE, Fire Area Simulator--model Development and Evaluation
Author: Mark A. Finney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1998
Genre: FARSITE (Computer file)
ISBN:

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.