
Grassfires
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the 1st edition
- Preface to the 2nd edition
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Grassfires in Australia
- A historical view
- A more recent view
- Predicting grassfire spread
- 2. Fuel
- Tropical grasslands
- Tussock grasslands
- Hummock grasslands
- Improved pastures
- Crop lands
- Comparison of grazed and ungrazed pastures
- Grassland life cycles
- 3. Combustion of grassy fuels
- The combustion process
- Diffusion flames
- Heat yield from grassy fuel
- Moving grassfires
- Fire types
- Flame zone characteristics
- Fireline intensity
- 4. Fire behaviour
- Ignition
- Fire growth
- Fire shape
- Fuel characteristics
- Fuel moisture content
- Wind speed
- Slope
- Fire behaviour in spinifex
- 5. Predicting fire spread
- Fuel condition
- Grass curing state
- Dead fuel moisture content
- Wind speed
- Slope
- CSIRO grassland fire spread prediction system
- 6. Local variation and erratic fire behaviour
- Wind
- Interaction of fuel moisture with relative humidity
- Other factors that influence fire behaviour
- 7. Fire danger
- Fire spread and fire danger prediction
- 8. Wildfires and their suppression
- Past wildfire events
- Suppression of grassfires under extreme conditions
- Firebreaks
- 9. Grassfire investigation
- Wind direction
- Shape of the fire perimeter
- Determining the origin
- Power line ignitions
- 10. Safety: myths, facts and fallacies
- The fire consumed all the oxygen around me and I could not breathe
- Boiled alive
- The fire creates its own wind
- The fire was so hot it melted the engine block
- The green grass burns faster
- Exploding petrol tanks
- Great balls of fire
- Faster than a speeding bullet
- The fire was equivalent to eight Hiroshimas
- It can't happen here
- The red steer
- Glossary
- Bibliography and further reading
- Index
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