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Description: On January 15, 2014 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the United States Forest Service (USFS), Texas Forest Service (TFS), Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), and other public and private organizations for three research burns on Camp Swift Military Base. The burns were conducted at Camp Swift Military Instillation which is a 4 718 hectares (11 659 acres) Texas Army National Guard Training Site located in Bastrop County in Central Texas. Burn plots were located on the southeast most side of the military facility in a fire unit referred to as the “Drop Zone”. The Drop Zone burn unit is 80.9 hectares (200 acres) and is managed for military operations such as personnel drops; therefore, the fire frequency and disturbance regime is higher in this unit than comparable grassland burn units at Camp Swift. The fire management regime in the Drop Zone is largely driven by requirements needed to maintain a safe and sustainable military training environment. Over a 2.5 hour time period three research burns, as portrayed in this dataset, were intentionally lit to support the validation of fire behavior models. Specifically, the effort was guided by validation needs of WFDS. The weather conditions were also chosen for this purpose, while staying within conditions that allowed for a safe prescribed burn.The fire practitioners timed the burns to coincide with similar weather parameters of relative humidity, temperature, wind speed and direction during the research burn periods. Minimum and maximum weather parameters for this ignition were as follows: wind directions: North, Northwest or SouthwestWind Speed: 9.7-24km/hr (6-15 mph)Relative Humidity: 20-25%Temperature: 1.6-29°C (35-85°F)The ignition procedure was designed to ensure, as much as possible from the ground, given the lack of homogeneity in the vegetation type and spatial distribution, that the initial fire established itself as a continuous fire line. The winds were chosen to have a higher enough speed to promote a continuous fireline. These are conditions important for WFDS validation.
Copyright Text: Camp Swift Army Base, USFS RMRS, wildland fire, environment, Fire effects on environment, Texas, environment, Fire, prescribed fire, Bastrop County, biota, biota, NIST, Fire ecology, Camp Swift RX, JFSP, Joint Fire Science Program, Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment, time series, wind, Prescribed fire, experimental design, fire behavior
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