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Field guide to the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System / [by] S. W. Taylor, R. G. Pike and M. E. Alexander.: Fo29-34/11-1997-1E

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The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior System is a systematic method for assessing wildland fore behavior potential. The guide provides a simplified version of the system, presented in tabular format. It was prepared to assist staff in making first approximations of FBP system outputs when computer-based applications are not available. Quantitative estimates of head fire spread rate, fire intensity, type of fire, and elliptical fire area, perimeter, and perimeter growth rate are provided for sixteen discrete fuel types within five broad groupings (coniferous, deciduous, and mixedwood forests, logging slash, and grass), covering most of the major forest fuel types found in Canada. The FBP system is intended to supplement the experience and judgment of fire managers.

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Department/Agency
  • Canada. Natural Resources Canada. Canadian Forest Service.
TitleField guide to the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction (FBP) System / [by] S. W. Taylor, R. G. Pike and M. E. Alexander.
Series title
  • Special report 1188-7419 11
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
FormatPhysical text
Note(s)
  • "This guide was first published as Canada-B.C. FRDA Handbook 012". Some changes were made to this version to clarify the worksheet procedures; however, the general procedures and values in the tables are unchanged."--Page iv, Acknowledgments. Includes: Probabilities of sustained Ignition in lodgepole pine, interior douglas-fir, and white spruce -- subalpine fir forest types / B.D. Lawson and G.N. Dalrymple, 1998. 18p. Figs., references, tables.
  • This priced publication is available from: UBC Press c/o UNIpresses 34 Armstrong Avenue Georgetown ON L7G 4R9 Telephone: 1-877-864-8477 or 905-873-9781 Facsimile: 1-877-864-4272 or 905-873-6170 email: orders@gtwcanada.com
  • (Résumé en français.)
Publishing information
  • Natural Resources Canada. 1997.
BindingBinder
Descriptionviii, [78]p. : coloured illus., figs., glossary, graphs, references, tables, photographs ; 19 cm.
ISBN0-660-17099-X
ISSN1188-7419
Catalogue number
  • Fo29-34/11-1997-1E
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