Case Study 29"Montana
Fire Weather - Dry Cold Front"
31 October 1999
References
COMET Fire Weather CD Training Module
Dry cold front over southern Bavaria (Hoinka, K. P., et al.) Weather, Bracknell, Eng., 43(7): 255-261, July, 1988.
Behavior of dry cold fronts traveling along a coastline (Garratt, J. R., et al.) Monthly Weather Review, Boston, 117(6): 1208-1220, June, 1989.
The low-level structure and evolution of a dry Arctic front over the central United States. Part I: Mesoscale observations (Miller, L. J., et al.) Monthly Weather Review, Boston, MA, 124(8): 1648-1675, August 1996.
The low-level structure and evolution of a dry Arctic front over the central United States. Part II: Comparison with theory (Blumen, W., et al.) Monthly Weather Review, Boston, MA, 124(8): 1676-1692, August 1996.
Fire Storms (Whipple, D.) A new computer model is providing clues to the secrets of wildfires Weatherwise, Washington, DC, 52(4): 20-27, July-August 1999. 2
Systems for evaluating and predicting the effects of weather and climate on wildland fires (Reifsnyder, W. E., et al.) Revised with additional material on the use of remote-sensing techniques in forest-fire management, Geneva, Switzerland, World Meteorological Organization, 1994. 34 p.
Low-level temperature, moisture and wind profiles preceding major wildland fires (Brotak, E. A.) National Weather Digest, Montgomery, AL, 19(2): 31-34, November 1994.
Summer Montana burned (Heim, R., Jr.) Weatherwise, Wash., D.C., 40(4): 184-187, Aug., 1987.
Relations between El Nino/Southern Oscillation anomalies and wildland fire activity in the United States (Simard, A. J., et al.) Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Amsterdam, 36(2): 93-104, Dec., 1985.