Results suggest that integrative complexity moderated the relationship between basic beliefs and attitudes toward prescribed fire. Consistent with theory and previous studies, results suggested no relationship between integrative complexity and attitude direction. However, as expected, results suggested a ...
Fire scientists and land managers have long understood that forest structure is a key variable influencing fire behavior and effects (Rothermel 1972; Anderson 1981; Catchpole et al. 1993), although only recently has the importance of characterizing the structural complexity of the fuels been fully un...
Full-physics smoke plume models such as the active tracer high-resolution atmospheric model (ATHAM) [17,18] can model the complexity of wildland fire plume structures. Reference [19] simulated a prescribed burn in northwestern Washington which closely approximated measured elevations and concentrations...
•We examine the effects of integrative complexity on attitudes toward prescribed fire.•High integrative complexity results in considering the merits of alternate policies.•Integrative complexity moderated the relationship between basic beliefs and attitudes.•The quantitative scale can be used more ...
Results: Forest structural complexity and ignition pattern affected the proportions of simulated crown scorch, consumption, and damage for prescribed fires in a dry, fire-prone ecosystem. Prescribed fires in forests with complex canopy structures resulted in increased crown consumption, scorch, and ...
Keywords: prescribed fire; tree injury; tree decay; tree volume; tree value; oak; silviculture; tree mortality; stand development 1. Introduction Fire has played a major role in shaping the composition and structure of vegetation for millenia in North America. Fossil records of Quercus extend ...
CA was applied in an abundant number of studies [95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105] to effectively capture the development of fire spread patterns with different complexity levels. In our SAA program, a fire may spread at different speeds and intensities in different cells. In cells...
Current understanding of the buoyant rise and subsequent dispersion of smoke due to wildfires has been limited by the complexity of interactions between fire behavior and atmospheric conditions, as well as the uncertainty in model evaluation data. To assess the feasibility of using numerical models to...
The purpose of the autonomous agent is to reduce the complexity of modeling fire while minimizing commensurate loss of explanatory power. Therefore, the agent should not be too much like fire or else modeling complexity will not be reduced nor should the agent be too little like fire or else ...