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McArthur's fire‐danger meters expressed as equations

Ian Noble, A. Malcolm Gill, G. A. V. BARY

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Abstract McArthur's fire‐danger meters for grasslands (Mark 3) and forests (Mark 5) have been widely used in Australia for fire‐danger forecasting and as a guide to fire behaviour. We present a set of equations to describe the data provided on these meters plus equations pertinent to the recently‐produced Mark 5 grassland meter. The equations provide a simple method of describing the forecasting system and are particularly useful for machine processing, and modeling.

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Key concepts: Grassland, Environmental science, Simple (philosophy), Meteorology, Metre, Geography, Ecology, Physics