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CSIRO Publishing, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 4(9), p. 255

DOI: 10.1071/wf00010

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A Mesoscale Model Application to Fire Weather Winds

Journal article published in 1999 by José A. Gómez Tejedor ORCID, María J. Estrela, Millán Mm Millán
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Abstract

In this work, a mesoscale model has been used to simulate the wind flow in a real fire situation in the Spanish Mediterranean basin in July 1991. The model simulation results for the wind field are shown, and compared to the fire evolution, and to some real observations taken in the area during the fire event. The most important conclusion is that, in spite of the presence of the fire, the mesoscale model was still able to predict the local winds accurately without taking the fire heating processes into account.