fires: Micro-fires recorded in a lab setting

In MPV: Data Sets from Montgomery, Peck and Vining

Micro-fires recorded in a lab setting

Description

Rate of spread measurements (inches/s) in each direction: East, West, North and South for each of 31 experimental runs at given slopes, measured over the given time period of each (measured in seconds).

Usage

fires

Format

A data frame with 31 observations on the following 7 variables.

Run

numeric

Slope

numeric: vertical rise divided by horizontal run, inclined from East to West

ROS_E

numeric: rate of spread measured in easterly direction

ROS_W

numeric: rate of spread measured in westerly direction

ROS_S

numeric: rate of spread measured in southerly direction

ROS_N

numeric: rate of spread measured in northerly direction

Time

numeric

Source

Braun, W.J. and Woolford, D.G. (2013) Assessing a stochastic fire spread simulator. Journal of Environmental Informatics. 22:1-12.

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