Wildland Fire Science

Books and technical references

Wildfire & Fire science

US Department of Agriculture Forest Service. (1970). Fire Weather - A guide for application of meteorological information to forest fire control operations.

Basic principles, Temperature, Atmospheric moisture, atmospheric stability, general circulation, general winds, convective winds, air masses and fronts, clouds and precipitation, thunderstorms, weather and fuel moisture, fire climate regions.

Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research. (2011). Wildland fire weather: Multi-Agency Portfolio of current and in-development capabilities to support user needs.

Cheney, P., Sullivan, A. (2008). Grassfires - Fuel, weather, and fire behaviour. 2nd edition. CSIRO publishing

Fuel, combustion of grassy fuels, fire behaviour, predicting fire spread, local variation and erratic fire behavior, fire danger, wildfire and their suppresion, grassfire investigation.

Forestry

DeYoung, J. (2016). Forest Measurements: An Applied Approach. Open Oregon Educational Resources. Retrieved from https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/forestmeasurements/

Biology

Fisher, M. (2019) Environmental Biology. OpenStax. Retrieved from https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/envirobiology/

Gettys, L., Haller, W., & Petty, D. (2014). Biology and Control of Aquatic Plants - A Best Management Practices Handbook. 3rd Edition.

Meteorology

Kelkar, R. (2007). Satellite Meteorology.

Stull, R. (2017). Practical Meteorology - An algebra-based survey of atmospheric science

Potter, T., & Colman, B. (2003). Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water - Dynamics, Climate, Physical Meteorology, Weather Systems, and Measurements. Wiley-Interscience

Flying

US Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration. (2016). Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge.

Lankford, T. (2000). Weather Reports, Forecasts, & Flight Planning - A pilots guide to practical techniques for putting weather information to work in flight. 3rd Edition

Satellite data

Qu, J. (2006). Earth Science Satellite Remote Sensing Science and Instruments. Volume 1. Springer. Retreived from https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-37293-6

Use of Satellite Remote Sensing Data for Modeling carbon Emissions from Fires: A Perspective in North america. pp 337-362

Geology

Blyth, F., & Freitas, M. (1984) A Geology for Engineer. 7th Edition.

Milsom, J. (2003) Field Geophysics - The geological field guide series. 3rd edition. Wiley

National Programs

NOAA. (1998). Automated Surface Observing System ASOS Users Guide.

USGS. (2011). Pacific NorthWest, Washington and Oregon, Interagency operating plan for volcanic ash events.

USGS. (1963). Hydrologic and Geologic Reconnaissance of Pinto Basin Joshua Tree National Monument Riverside County California

interesting programs

https://www.doi.gov/wildlandfire/hello-my-name-irwin