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McArthur's fire‐danger meters expressed as equations
Abstract
McArthur's fire‐danger meters for grasslands (Mark 3) and forests (Mark 5) have been widely used in Australia for fire‐danger forecasting and as a guide to fire behaviour. We present a set of equations to describe the data provided on these meters plus equations pertinent to the recently‐produced Mark 5 grassland meter. The equations provide a simple method of describing the forecasting system and are particularly useful for machine processing, and modeling.
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Metadata
- Authors
- NOBLE, I. R., GILL, A. M., & BARY, G. A. V.
- Venue
- Australian Journal of Ecology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1980-06
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 201-203
- ISSN
- 0307-692X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2055986463
- Cited by
- 725
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 3.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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