Forest fires: An example of self-organized critical behavior |
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| Authors: | BD Malamud G Morein DL Turcotte |
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| Institution: | Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-1504, USA. |
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| Abstract: | Despite the many complexities concerning their initiation and propagation, forest fires exhibit power-law frequency-area statistics over many orders of magnitude. A simple forest fire model, which is an example of self-organized criticality, exhibits similar behavior. One practical implication of this result is that the frequency-area distribution of small and medium fires can be used to quantify the risk of large fires, as is routinely done for earthquakes. |
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