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C. E. Van Wagner
Researcher at Environment Canada
Publications - 37
Citations - 5003
C. E. Van Wagner is an academic researcher from Environment Canada. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fire ecology & Economic impact analysis. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 37 publications receiving 4757 citations.
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Conditions for the start and spread of crown fire
TL;DR: Simple criteria are presented for the initiation of crown combustion and for the minimum rates of spread and heat transfer into the crown combustion zone at which the crown fire will spread.
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Age-class distribution and the forest fire cycle
TL;DR: In this paper, the expected age-class structure of a forest dependent on random periodic fire for disturbance and renewal is derived and presented, which is simply the negative exponential distribution, well known i.e.
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Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System: An Overview
Brian J. Stocks,T. J. Lynham,B. D. Lawson,Martin E. Alexander,C. E. Van Wagner,Robert S. McAlpine,D. E. Dubé +6 more
TL;DR: The current system, the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS), has been under development by Forestry Canada since 1968 and provides numerical ratings of relative fire potential based solely on weather observations since 1970.
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Climate change and wildfire in Canada
TL;DR: The impact of postulated greenhouse warming on the severity of the forest fire season in Canada is investigated using CO2 levels that are double those of the present (2 × CO2).