
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Viney, NR 
A1  - Catchpole, EA 
T1  - Estimating Fuel Moisture Response Times From Field Observations
JF  - International Journal of Wildland Fire
JO  - Int. J. Wildland Fire
Y1  - 1991
VL  - 1
IS  - 4
SP  - 211
EP  - 214
KW  - Time lag; Response time; Moisture content; Fine fuels
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/WF9910211 
N2  - The response time of a fuel element is defined in terms of the response to a step change in moisture content, and is not measurable in the field. However the formulation of fine fuel moisture content as a continuous process leads to a simple relationship between the re- sponse time of the fuel and the time lag with respect to a diurnally varying equilibrium moisture content. This time lag is estimable from field data. This method is applied to obtain response times for fine litter in a EucaIyptus forest. The same formulation is applied to the discrete moisture content model of Fosberg and Deeming (1971) which is re-cast and solved as a continuous model. 
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