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Comparing Duff Moisture to FWI Fuel Moisture Indices in Alaska
Media Type: Video
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Date: October 2014

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Keyword(s):
  • CFFDRS - Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
  • DC - CFFDRS Drought Code
  • dead moss
  • DMC - CFFDRS Duff Moisture Code
  • drought fuel code
  • duff
  • duff layers
  • duff moisture
  • fuel moisture
  • FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System
  • moss
  • smoldering ignition
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Record Last Modified: May 29, 2020
FRAMES Record Number: 18607

Description

Jennifer Barnes, NPS-Alaska Fire Ecologist and Eric Miller, BLM-Alaska Fire Ecologist talk about duff moisture sampling in Alaska: why we do it, its history, and comparing field results of destructive sampling and oven drying to weather-generated Duff Moisture Code and Drought Code of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. They show data gathered by an intensive interagency collaboration around the state. The Alaska experience with duff moisture and fire differs in some important respects from the Canadian and Alaska has more trouble interpreting DC because of effects of regional differences in duff thickness over a vast area and permafrost, among other things.

Recording Length: 0:20:09
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