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Fire Simulation with Dry Eucalyptus and Flat Terrain

Entry ID: ucar.scd.vets.vg.fire

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Summary

Abstract: The early results shown here help to understand the circulation dynamics of a
fire storm on a flat land surface.In the past, studies and numerical simulation
of forest fires have treated the fire-atmosphere as an uncoupled system. The
simulation we show here from 1997 is particulary interesting because a simple,
dry-eucalyptus fire model is fully coupled with an atmospheric model to conduct
the study. Both ground and canopy fuels are prescribed as are winds, which are
forced in a hyperbolic-tangent profile, with 3 m/s at surface and -3 m/s at top
of the domain which is 1 km.

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Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Terry Clark (scientist), Janice Coen (scientist), Don middleton (animator)

Online Resource: http://cdp.ucar.edu/browse/browse.htm?uri=http%3a%2f%2fdataportal.u...

Data Resolution

Latitude Resolution: 1 Km
Longitude Resolution: 1 Km
Horizontal Resolution Range: 1 km - < 10 km or approximately .01 degree - < .09 degree
Temporal Resolution: 5 Seconds
Temporal Resolution Range: 1 second - < 1 minute

Science Keywords

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > NATURAL HAZARDS > WILDFIRES

BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > FIRE ECOLOGY > FIRE DYNAMICS

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

ENVIRONMENT

Project

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

Ancillary Keywords

Visualizations

wildfires

Originating Center

NCAR/SCD/VETS

Data Center

Community Data Portal, Visualization and Enabling Technologies Section, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Data Center URL: http://cdp.ucar.edu/

Data Center Personnel
Name: NCAR CDP SUPPORT Email: cdp at ucar.edu Contact Address: National Center for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000 City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80307-3000 Country: USA

Creation and Review Dates

Last DIF Revision Date: 2008-07-16

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