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Fire Environment

General Overview

The program consists of five major components:

Surface Fire Physics
Dead Fuel Moisture Modeling
Extreme Fire Phenomenology
Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) Extensions and Enhancements
Application of Fire Behavior Knowledge