fuelMoisture {firebehavioR}

Modified Scott & Burgan (2005) moisture scenarios.

Description

Moisture scenarios are a set of fuel moistures of surface fuels, on a dry-weight basis, for each of the surface fuel classes. Adapted from Scott & Burgan (2005), this dataset includes fuel moistures of litter.

Usage

data("fuelMoisture")

Format

A data frame with 16 observations of 7 variables:

fmLitter

moisture of litter (%)

fm1hr

moisture of 1-hr fuel (%)

fm10hr

moisture of 10-hr fuel (%)

fm100hr

moisture of 100-hr fuel (%)

fmLiveHerb

moisture of herbaceous fuel (%)

fmLiveWoody

moisture of woody fuel (%)

description

scenario description

Source

Scott, J., & Burgan, R. E. 2005. A new set of standard fire behavior fuel models for use with Rothermel’s surface fire spread model. RMRS-GTR-153. Fort Collins, CO: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

See Also

rothermel