Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-21-815-2014
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Research article
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07 Aug 2014
Research article |
| 07 Aug 2014
Fractal dimensions of wildfire spreading
Abstract. The time series data of 31 wildfires in 2012 in the US were analyzed. The fractal dimensions (FD) of the wildfires during spreading were studied and their geological features were identified. A growth model based on the cellular automata method is proposed here. Numerical study was performed and is shown to give good agreement with the fractal dimensions and scaling behaviors of the corresponding empirical data.
