Jones, Timothy Peter ![]() |
Official URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
Abstract
Wildfires tend to occur when the environmental conditions are right: typically, abundant fuel source, dry weather, and high winds. It seems improbable that even with a potentially intense ignition source such as an extraterrestrial impact, fires would be widespread or long-lasting unless these conditions were met. Non-expert eyewitnesses do not provide reliable evidence. Blasts from such events could provide dead fuel-rich sites for later lightning-ignited wildfires, when climatic conditions were more conducive to fires.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Earth and Environmental Sciences |
Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | fire season; thermal pulse; ignition; explosion |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
ISSN: | 0031-0182 |
Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2022 09:41 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/21838 |
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