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Absolute Humidity
Adiabatic Process
Adjective Rating
Advection
Air Mass
Air Stagnation Advisory (ASA)
All Hazards Meteorological Response System (AMRS)
Ambient Air
Anemometer
Annual Operating Plan (for Fire Weather) (AOP)
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Beaufort Wind Scale
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Boundary Layer
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Burn Severity
Buys Ballots Law
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Cirrus
Climate
Cloud
Cloudy
Cold Front
Combustion
Combustion Efficiency
Combustion Period
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Convective Activity
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Coriolis Force
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Crown Ratio
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Dense Sky Cover
Depth of Burn (DOB)
Dew Point
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Dispersion
Disturbance
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Divergence
Drizzle
Drought
Drought Index
Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate
Dry Air Mass
Dry Bulb
Dry Episode (DE)
Dry Lightning Storm
Dry-bulb Thermometer
Eddy
Effective Windspeed
Energy Release Component (ERC)
Environment
Environmental Lapse Rate
Evaporation
Fahrenheit
Filling
Fire Environment
Fire Potential
Fire Season
Fire Trap
Fire Weather
Fire Weather Forecast
Fire Weather Station
Fire Weather Watch
Fire Whirl
Fire-flood Cycle
FIRECAST
FIREFAMILY (Fire Data Program)
Flash Fuels
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Foehn Wind
Forecast Area
Forestry Weather Information System (FWIS)
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Front
Frost
Fuel Dryness Level (DL)
General Fire Weather Forecast
General Winds
Gradient Wind
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Greenhouse Effect
Ground Fog
Ground Truth
Ground Visibility
Gust
Haines Index
Haze
Heat Low
Heat Release Rate
Heat Transfer
Heat Trough
Heat Value
Heat Yield
High Fire Risk Day
Humidity
Hydrophobicity
Hygrothermograph
Ignition Energy
Ignition Trigger
Impulse
In-stand Wind
Incident Weather Forecast
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Infrared Groundlink (IR)
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