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131Success of fire suppression in northern forests — In North America, the belief that fire suppression has substantially reduced the average annual area burned is widely held by resource managers and is often thought to be self evident. Direct empirical evidence however is essentially limited to… …
132Radius of maximum wind — The radius of maximum wind (RMW) of a tropical cyclone is defined to be the distance between the center of the cyclone and its band of strongest winds. It is considered an important parameter in atmospheric dynamics and tropical cyclone… …
