Judith Winterkamp
Los Alamos National Laboratory
19 Papers
64 Citations
Judith Winterkamp is an academic researcher from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wildfire modeling & Fire regime. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 19 publications.
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Papers
Studying wildfire behavior using FIRETEC
TL;DR: In this article, a coupled atmospheric/wildfire behavior model is described that utilizes physics-based process models to represent wildfire behavior, and five simulations are presented, four of which are highly idealized situations that illustrate some of the dependencies of the model on environmental conditions.
Coupled influences of topography and wind on wildland fire behaviour
TL;DR: In this article, ten simulations were performed with the HIGRAD/FIRETEC wildfire behavior model in order to explore its utility in studying wildfire behaviour in inhomogeneous topography.
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Modeling wind fields and fire propagation following bark beetle outbreaks in spatially-heterogeneous pinyon-juniper woodland fuel complexes
TL;DR: In this article, a physics-based model, HIGRAD/FIRETEC, was used to explore changes in within-stand wind behavior and fire propagation associated with three time periods in pinyon-juniper woodlands following a drought-induced bark beetle outbreak and subsequent tree mortality.
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Numerical Investigation of Aggregated Fuel Spatial Pattern Impacts on Fire Behavior
Russell A. Parsons,Rodman R. Linn,François Pimont,Chad M. Hoffman,Jeremy A. Sauer,Judith Winterkamp,Carolyn Hull Sieg,W. Matt Jolly +7 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the impacts of spatially aggregated fuel patterns on the mean and variability of stand-level fire behavior, and test sensitivity of these effects to wind and canopy cover, and proposed three hypotheses: aggregated spatial fuel patterns primarily affect fire behavior by increasing variability; this variability should increase with spatial scale of aggregation; and fire behavior sensitivity to spatial pattern effects should be more pronounced under moderate wind and fuel conditions.
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Incorporating field wind data into FIRETEC simulations of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiment (ICFME): preliminary lessons learned
Rodman R. Linn,Kerry Anderson,Judith Winterkamp,Alyssa Broos,Michael Wotton,Jean-Luc Dupuy,François Pimont,Carleton B. Edminster +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiment (ICFME) plot 1 and plot 6 fires were performed using horizontally homogenized fuels, and the simulations enable exploration of the sensitivity of model results to specific aspects of the interpretation and use of the locally measured wind data from this experiment.
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