THE AUTHORS 



FRANK A. ALBINI is a Mechanical Engineer, assigned to the Fire Fundamentals 

 research work unit at the Northern Forest Fire Laboratory in Missoula, Mon- 

 tana. He earned a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1962, 

 where he also obtained his undergraduate training (B.S. 1958, M.S. 1959). 

 He joined the Forest Service in October 1973 after 12 years of pure and applied 

 research and S3'stems analysis both in private industry and at the nonprofit 

 Institute for Defense Analyses. 



ROBERT G. BAUGHIN'IAN holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in meteorology and clima- 

 tology from the University of Washington. From 1954 to 1958 he was engaged 

 in arctic research with the U.S. Corps of Engineers. Since joining the For- 

 est Service in 1958, he has held the position of research meteorologist at the 

 Northern Forest Fire Laboratory and has been involved in research on thunder- 

 storms, lightning, weather modifications, and forest meteorology. 



