Abstract: Probability terms, especially in relation to precipitation occurrence, were incorporated in fire-weather forecasts on a trial basis in the Chicago District during the 1952 fire-weather seasons. These forecasts were verified ...

Abstract: Three-dimensional analysis shows the sea-breeze front to be primarily a wind shift line in which the thermal discontinuity lags behind the shear line and becomes quasi-stationary in the afternoon. Two synoptic patterns ...

Abstract: Stepwise discriminant analysis of eight meteorological variables was used to classify the days from May through September, 1970, on the southern slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains and over the adjacent basin of southern ...

Abstract: In the summer of 1957, short-term weather surveys were made in four prescribed burn areas in the central Sierra Nevada foothills and in the central Coast Range in California The local fireclimate patterns were studied, a ...