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  1. Atmospheric conditions related to blowup fires

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    Author(s): George M. Byram
    Date: 1954
    Source: Station Paper SE-SP-35. Asheville, NC: USDA-Forest Service. Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. 36 p.
    Publication Series: Other
    Station: Southeastern Forest Experiment Station
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    Occasionally a forest fire burns with an intensity that seems far out of proportion to apparent burning conditions. Sometimes it multiplies its rate of energy output many times in a short space of time. Although infrequent, these unusual fires have over a long period of time been responsible for the major loss of life in forest fires and a large part of the losses in property and forest values, Each blowup fire raises the question: What can we do to recognize conditions causing extreme fire behavior and how can we predict them in advance?

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    Byram, George M. 1954. Atmospheric conditions related to blowup fires. Station Paper SE-SP-35. Asheville, NC: USDA-Forest Service. Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. 36 p.

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