Atmospheric interactions with wildland fire behaviour – I. Basic surface interactions, vertical profiles and synoptic structures
Brian E. Potter
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Pacific Northwest Fire Sciences Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, 400 N 34th Street, Suite 201, Seattle, WA, 98103, USA. Email: bpotter@fs.fed.us
International Journal of Wildland Fire 21(7) 779-801 https://doi.org/10.1071/WF11128
Submitted: 6 September 2011 Accepted: 24 January 2012 Published: 6 July 2012
Abstract
This paper is the first of two reviewing scientific literature from 100 years of research addressing interactions between the atmosphere and fire behaviour. These papers consider research on the interactions between the fuels burning at any instant and the atmosphere, and the interactions between the atmosphere and those fuels that will eventually burn in a given fire. This first paper reviews the progression from the surface atmospheric properties of temperature, humidity and wind to horizontal and vertical synoptic structures and ends with vertical atmospheric profiles. (The companion paper addresses plume dynamics and vortices.) The review reveals several unanswered questions, as well as findings from previous studies that appear forgotten in current research and concludes with suggestions for areas of future research.
Additional keywords: atmospheric moisture, fire weather, frontal systems, review, solar radiation, stability, wind.
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