NOVA Online has developed its own version of a fire-growth computer simulation. Its purpose is to show how conditions such as wind speed and direction can affect a fire's spread and to show how ...

Wildfire Simulator is a fire-growth computer model that has two purposes: First, to let users see how certain conditions, such as wind speed and direction, affect the spread of a wildland fire.

Terri Randall, who created the documentary airing on “Nova,” says, “Talking to Shelley and some of the members of the NASA study group, I started to talk to them about what could we do to ...