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NCAR Scientists Seek Clues To Wildfires During Alaska Prescribed Burn
July 8, 1999 — Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research will fly over a prescribed blaze in the Alaskan forest seeking clues to how violent and seemingly unpredictable forest fires spread. ... > full story -
Global Climate Change: Ill-Wind For California Wildfires
December 7, 1998 — Against the backdrop of concerns raised in the aftermath of this year’s El Niño weather anomaly, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ... > full story -
Smoke Breathes New Life Into A Forest
October 14, 1998 — To the dismay of many Californians, and most recently Floridians, nearly every summer it happens. Trees alight in a fiery blaze, resulting in millions of dollars in property damage, displaced ... > full story -
Computer Simulation Of Matches And Trees Can Be Used To Predict And Prevent Large Forest Fires, Cornell Geologists Say
September 18, 1998 — As small earthquakes can be omens of larger ones and landslides can be precursors to avalanches, Cornell University geologists have shown in a computer simulation that forest fires display the ... > full story -
NCAR Scientists And Instruments To Fly Over Raging Wildfires
August 24, 1998 — Beginning September 1, scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will fly a highly instrumented C-130 research aircraft around and over dangerous wildfires that may ignite ... > full story -
Small-Scale Fires Key To Understanding Forest Structure
March 31, 1998 — For 94 years, forest caretakers have restricted Mother Nature by suppressing forest fires. Now a Penn State geographer wants to know what the forests would have been like if we'd let them ... > full story
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