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15.7 Technical Support <br />BehavePlus is a national system supported by U.S. Forest Service Fire and Aviation Man- <br />agement. The National Support Desk is available for software issues only and cannot deal <br />with fire behavior questions. Contact information is available on the BehavePlus web site <br />and in the Acknowledgments section of this report. <br />16 Program Updates <br />The BehavePlus program is occasionally updated as features and modeling capabilities <br />are added to the program and as bugs are fixed. The BehavePlus web site provides the <br />latest information. You can also subscribe to BehavePlus news on the web site to receive <br />occasional e-mails regarding changes to BehavePlus. <br />17 Summary <br />This paper was written to assist in using the BehavePlus fire modeling system and to sup- <br />plement the reference papers—the User's Guide and the Variables paper. It is also a brief <br />presentation of material found in the lessons on the BehavePlus web site. <br />This paper is not intended to teach professionals how to properly define inputs or inter- <br />pret output. Those tasks are left to courses, such as the S-390 course, and field experi- <br />ence. We hope that users (novice and advanced) will use this document to learn how to <br />more effectively use BehavePlus to support their fire modeling tasks. <br />Basic BehavePlus design decisions were made over 10 years ago with the update from <br />the DOS BEHAVE system to BehavePlus (Andrews and Bevins 1998). Some of the in- <br />ternal design features cannot be changed without a total system rebuild. Although there <br />are features that we would design differently now, we feel that the BehavePlus system has <br />been successful in many ways. We hope this document might help people design future <br />generations of fire modeling software. <br />18 References <br />Albini, Frank A. 1976a. Computer-based models of wildland fire behavior: a user's manual. Ogden, UT: U.S. <br />Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 68 p. <br />Albini, Frank A. 1976b. Estimating wildfire behavior and effects. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT -30. Ogden, UT: U.S. <br />Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 92 p, <br />Albini, Frank A. 1981. Spot fire distance from isolated sources—extensions of a predictive model. Res. Note. <br />INT -309. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range <br />Experiment Station. 9 p. <br />Albini, Frank A. 1983a. Potential spotting distance from wind -driven surface fires. Res. Pap. INT-309.Og- <br />den, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Sta- <br />tion. 27 p. <br />Albini, Frank A. 1983b. Transport of firebrands by line thermals. Combustion Science and Technology. 32: <br />277-288. <br />Albini, Frank A.; Baughman, Robert G. 1979. Estimating windspeeds for predicting wildland fire behavior. <br />Res. Pap. INT -221. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and <br />Range Experiment Station. 12 p. <br />Albini, Frank A.; Korovin, G. N.; Gorovaya, E. H. 1978. Mathematical analysis of forest fire suppression. <br />Res. Pap. INT -207. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and <br />Range Experiment Station. 19 p. <br />Anderson, Hal E. 1969. Heat transfer and fire spread. Res. Pap. INT -69. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Ag- <br />riculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 20 p. <br />Anderson, Hal E. 1982. Aids to determining fuel models for estimating fire behavior. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT- <br />122. <br />NT122. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experi- <br />ment Station. 22 p. <br />90 USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RM RS -GTR -249. 2010 <br />