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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 1991
Models describing the moisture content of forest fuels are an integral component of most fire behaviour prediction systems. In this paper, models of all aspects of moisture change in fine, dead, surface litter are examined and reviewed. Included are models describing the changes in moisture content associated with isothermal vapour exchange by absorption processes, and the effects of precipitation and condensation of liquid water. Models for predicting fuel temperature and humidity, and equilibrium moisture content are also assessed. Critical reviews of the assumptions underlying each model are made, and points of comparison and contrast explored. Some recommendations for future research are suggested.
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Citation: Viney, Neil R. 1991. A review of fine fuel moisture modelling. International Journal of Wildland Fire 1(4):215-234.
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Keywords:
- air temperature
- Australia
- bibliographies
- boreal forests
- Canada
- Cladina rangiferina
- climatology
- computer program
- crowns
- dead fuels
- Eucalyptus marginata
- fine fuels
- fire danger rating
- fire management
- forest fires
- fuel loading
- fuel management
- fuel moisture
- heat
- heat effects
- humidity
- jarrah
- lichen moss fuels
- light
- litter
- moisture
- moisture content
- overstory
- Pinus banksiana
- Pinus ponderosa
- ponderosa pine
- Populus tremuloides
- precipitation
- season of fire
- sloping terrain
- statistical analysis
- surface fuels
- temperature
- understory vegetation
- US Forest Service
- water
- wildfires
- wind
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