A process-based model of fine fuel moisture

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-168

  Matthews, Stuart ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS OBLIQUA;

EID: 33744775910     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF05063     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Anderson HE (1990) 'Predicting equilibrium moisture content of some foliar forest litter in the northern Rocky Mountains.' USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station Research Paper INT-429. (Ogden, UT)
2. Ashton DH (1975) Studies of litter in Eucalyptus regnans forests. Australian Journal of Botany 23, 413-433. doi:10.1071/BT9750413
3. Byram GM (1963) 'An analysis of the drying process in forest fuel material.' USDA Forest Service, Southern Forest Fire Laboratory Report. (Macon, GA)
4. Byram GM, Jemison GM (1943) Solar radiation and forest fuel moisture. Journal of Agricultural Research 67, 149-176.
5. Catchpole EA, Catchpole WR, Viney NR, McCaw WL, Marsden-Smedley JB (2001) Estimating fuel response time and predicting fuel moisture content from field data. International Journal of Wildland Fire 10, 215-222. doi:10.1071/WF01011
6. Esprey LJ, Sands PJ, Smith CW (2004) Understanding 3-PG using a sensitivity analysis. Forest Ecology and Management 193, 235-250. doi:10.1016/J.FORECO.2004.01.032
7. Fosberg MA (1975) 'Heat and water vapour flux in conifer forest litter and duff: a theoretical model. ' USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station Research Paper RM-152. (Fort Collins, CO)
8. King AR, Linton M (1963a) 'Report on moisture variation in forest fuels: equilibrium moisture content.' (CSIRO Division of Physical Chemistry: Melbourne)
9. King AR, Linton M (1963b) Moisture variation in forest fuels: the rate of response to climate changes. Australian Journal of Applied Science 14, 38-49.
10. Lee X, Black TA (1993) Turbulence near the forest floor of an old-growth Douglas-fir stand on a south-facing slope. Forest Science 39, 211-230.
11. Matthews S (2005) The water vapour conductance of Eucalyptus litter layers. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 135, 73-81. doi:10.1016/J.AGRFORMET. 2005.10.004
12. McArthur AG (1967) 'Fire behaviour in Eucalypt forests.' Forestry and Timber Bureau. Leaflet 107. (Canberra, ACT)
13. McCaw WL (1998) Predicting fire spread in Western Australian mallee-heath shrublands. PhD Thesis, University of New South Wales, Australia.
14. Monteith JL (1975) 'Principles of environmental physics.' (Edward Arnold Publishers: London)
15. Nelson RM (1984) A method for describing equilibrium moisture content of forest fuels. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 14, 597-600.
16. Nelson RM (1991) A model of diurnal moisture change in dead forest fuels. In 'Proceedings of the 11th conference on fire and forest meteorology', pp. 109-116. (Missoula, MT)
17. Nelson RM (2000) Prediction of diurnal change in 10-h fuel stick moisture content. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30, 1071-1087. doi:10.1139/CJFR-30-7-1071
18. Novak MD, Chen WJ, Hares MA (2000) Simulating the radiation distribution within a barley-straw mulch. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 102, 173-186. doi:10.1016/S0168-1923(00)00096-4
19. Ogee J, Brunet Y (2002) A forest floor model for heat and moisture including a litter layer. Journal of Hydrology 255, 212-233. doi:10.1016/S0022-1694(01)00515-7
20. Paul KI, Polglase PJ, O'Connell AM, Carlyle CJ, Smethurst PJ, Khanna PK, Worledge D (2003) Soil water under forests (SWUF): A model of water flow and soil water content under a range of forest types. Forest Ecology and Management 182, 195-211. doi:10.1016/S0378-1127(03)00048-3
21. Pratt AW (1969) Heat transmission in low conductivity materials. In 'Thermal conductivity'. (Ed. RP Tye) pp. 301-402. (Academic Press: London)
22. Press WH, Flannery BP, Teukolsky SA, Vetterling WT (1992) 'Numerical recipes in C.' (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge)
23. Putuhena WM, Cordery I (1996) Estimation of the interception capacity of the forest floor. Journal of Hydrology 180, 283-299. doi:10.1016/0022-1694(95) 02883-8
24. Riha SJ, McInnes KJ, Childs SW, Campbell GS (1980) A finite element calculation for determining thermal conductivity. Soil Science Society of America Journal 44, 1323-1325.
25. Rutter AJ, Kershaw KA, Robins PC, Morton AJ (1971) A predictive model of rainfall interception in forests, 1. Derivation of the model from observations in a plantation of Corsican pine. Agricultural Meteorology 9, 367-384. doi:10.1016/0002-1571(71)90034-3
26. Silberstein R, Held A, Hatton T, Viney NR, Sivapalan M (2001) Energy balance of natural Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest in Western Australia: Measurements during spring and summer. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 109, 79-104. doi:10.1016/S0168-1923(01)00263-5
27. Sneeuwjagt RJ, Peet GB (1998) 'Forest fire behaviour tables for Western Australia.' (Department of Conservation and Land Management: Perth, WA)
28. Stull RB (1988) 'An introduction to boundary layer meteorology'. (Kluwer Academic Publishers: Amsterdam)
29. Viney NR (1991) An empirical expression for aerodynamic resistance in the unstable boundary-layer. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 56, 381-393. doi:10.1007/BF00119213
30. Viterbo P, Beljaars ACM (1995) An improved land surface parameterization scheme in the ECMWF model and its validation. Journal of Climate 8, 2716-2748. doi:10.1175/1520-0442(1995)008〈2716:AILSPS〉2.0.CO;2
31. van Wagner CE (1979) A laboratory study of weather effects on the drying rate of Jack Pine litter. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 9, 267-275.
32. van Wagner CE (1987) 'Development and structure of the Canadian forest fire weather index system.' Canadian Forestry Service, Forestry Technical Report 35. (Chalk River, ON)