The 10% wind speed rule of thumb for estimating a wildfire’s forward rate of spread in forests and shrublands

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  2019

• Venue

  Annals of Forest Science

• Publication date

  2019-06-01

• Fields of study

  Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s13595-019-0829-8
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