Fire behaviour by Vareschi
Recently I came across this figure published in 1962 by Volkmar Vareschi [1] which nicely synthesize variations in temperatures in the flame and in the soil, as well as flame height and flame spread (time and distance) in a simple hand-drawing. It is not easy to see a figure on fire behaviour as simple and illustrative as this one. It refers to a burn of a Trachypogon savanna in Los Llanos, Venezuela. Vareschi (1906-1991) was born in Austria and moved to Venezuela in 1950; he is considered a pioneer in tropical plant ecology; one of his papers was about savanna fires [1].
Figure 2 from [1]
References
[1] Vareschi, V. (1962) La quema como factor ecológico en los Llanos. Boletin de la Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales 23, 9-31.