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Agee, James
Barrett, Steve
Butler, Bret
Cohen, Jack
Gerke, Diane
Hood, Sharon
Jimenez, Dan
Knapp, Eric
McHugh, Charles W.
Ottmar, Roger
Potter, Brian
Reardon, James
Rebain, Stephanie
Robichaud, Pete
Scott, Joe
1-minute average wind speed
10-meter wind speed
10-minute average wind speed
2-minute average wind speed
20-foot wind speed
active crown fire
activity fuel
aerial fuel
available canopy fuel
backfire (noun)
backfire (verb)
backing fire
basal area
burn out (verb)
burn probability
burnout (noun)
Byram's fire intensity
canopy base height
canopy bulk density
canopy closure
canopy cover
canopy fuel
characteristic surface-area-to-volume ratio
codominant
conditional crown fire
conditional surface fire
continuous crown fire
crown base height
crown bulk density
crown class
crown closure
crown cover
crown fire
crown fire activity
crown fire cessation
crown fire hazard
crown fire potential
crown fraction burned
crown position
crown ratio
crown thinning
crowning index
custom fire behavior fuel model
diameter at breast height
direction of maximum spread
dominant
effective mid-flame wind speed
emergent
equilibrium moisture content
extinction moisture content
eye-level wind speed
fire-use fire
fire-use incident
fire
fire behavior
fire behavior characteristic
fire behavior fuel model
fire characteristic
fire environment
fire exclusion
fire front
fire hazard
fire intensity
fire potential
fire type
fire use
fireline intensity
flank
foliar moisture content
forward rate of spread
free thinning
frontal fire intensity
fuel model
fuel modification
fuel strata gap
fuel treatment
fuelbed
fuelbed depth
gust wind speed
hazard
head fire
horizontal movement rate
Huygen's principle
incident
independent crown fire
instantaneous wind speed
intermediate
intermittent crown fire
maximum reliable wind speed
mid-flame wind speed
moisture of extinction
no-wind no-slope spread rate
open wind speed
optimum packing ratio
packing ratio
particle surface-area-to-volume-ratio
passive crown fire
peak wind speed
point-source fire
rate of spread
reburn
resultant spread vector
spread direction
spread rate
standard fire behavior fuel model
structure fire
suppressed
surface-area-to-volume ratio
surface fire
sustained wind speed
torching index
tree crown street
wildfire
wildland fire
wildland fire use
wildland fuel
wind-driven fire
wind
wind adjustment
wind adjustment factor
wind coefficient
wind direction
wind gust
wind limit
wind reduction
wind reduction factor
wind speed
wind vector
wind velocity
Smith, Jane
Solomon, Robert
van Wagtendonk, Jan
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