The Secrets Of Extreme Wildfires
Others have developed cutting-edge models that describe how flames race across the landscape, driven not only by fuels and terrain but also by how the fire and atmosphere feed back on one another. When it comes to battling blazes, “there’s a lot of reliance on what people have seen fires do in the past,” says Neil Lareau, a meteorologist at the University of Nevada, Reno. A plume of ash and hot air rises rapidly from the fire, expanding and cooling as it gets higher.
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