Stocktake Sale on now: wide range of books at up to 70% off!
Register      Login
International Journal of Wildland Fire International Journal of Wildland Fire Society
Journal of the International Association of Wildland Fire
RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Corrigendum to: Australian Fire Danger Rating System: implementing fire behaviour calculations to forecast fire danger in a research prototype

B. J. Kenny , S. Matthews , S. Sauvage , S. Grootemaat , J. J. Hollis and P. Fox-Hughes
International Journal of Wildland Fire 33, WF23142_CO https://doi.org/10.1071/WF23142_CO
Published: 27 May 2024

© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of IAWF. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

This article corrects International Journal of Wildland Fire 33, WF23142. doi:10.1071/WF23142

On Page 3 of the published paper, in discussion of the fire behaviour models used in the Australian Fire Danger Rating System, the publication related to the grass model was cited incorrectly as McArthur (1973) which is regretted. The citation should, in fact, be Cheney et al. (1998), which is correctly cited in Table 1 on page 4 of the published paper and also provided in the References list.

Therefore, the incorrect paragraph below:

Fire spread models

Eight models of rate of forward spread were used, as recommended by Cruz et al. (2015a), including those specific to forest (Cheney et al. 2012), grassland (McArthur 1973), spinifex (Burrows et al. 2017), pine (Cruz et al. 2008), northern grassland (savanna woodland) (Cheney and Sullivan 2008), mallee-heath (Cruz et al. 2013), shrubland (Anderson et al. 2015) and buttongrass (Marsden-Smedley and Catchpole 1995a) fuel types.

Should read as:

Fire spread models

Eight models of rate of forward spread were used, as recommended by Cruz et al. (2015a), including those specific to forest (Cheney et al. 2012), grassland (Cheney et al. 1998), spinifex (Burrows et al. 2017), pine (Cruz et al. 2008), northern grassland (savanna woodland) (Cheney and Sullivan 2008), mallee-heath (Cruz et al. 2013), shrubland (Anderson et al. 2015) and buttongrass (Marsden-Smedley and Catchpole 1995a) fuel types.

This has made the below reference redundant as not being cited anywhere else in the paper.

McArthur AG (1973) ‘Grassland fire danger meter MkIV.’ (Forest Research Institute, Forestry and Timber Bureau: Canberra, ACT)