Title Grassfires : fuel, weather and fire behaviour / Phil Cheney and Andrew Sullivan

Published Collingwood V I C : CSIRO Publishing, 1997

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	632.180994 Che/Gfw		AVAILABLE
W'PONDS	632.180994 Che/Gfw		AVAILABLE

Description viii, 102 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Fuel -- 3. Combustion of grassy fuels -- 4. Fire behaviour -- 5. Predicting fire spread -- 6. Local variation and erratic fire behaviour -- 7. Fire danger -- 8. Wildfires and their suppression -- 9. Grassfire investigation -- 10. Myths, facts and fallacies Analysis Bushfires Environmental impact Fire behaviour Grasses Grasslands Scientific research Weather Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 92-94 Subject Fire weather -- Australia. Fire weather. Forest fire forecasting -- Australia. Forest fires -- Australia. Grassland fires -- Australia -- Forecasting. Grassland fires -- Australia. Grassland fires. Author Sullivan, Andrew, 1968- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia) LC no. 00364159 ISBN 0643063242

Other Titles Grass fires

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