Diurnal Variation in the Fine Fuel Moisture Code

Download or read book Diurnal Variation in the Fine Fuel Moisture Code written by B. D. Lawson and published by Canadian Forest Service. This book was released on 1996 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest fire managers must be able to predict the normal variation in fine fuel moisture around the clock, since it is a critical factor that affects the behaviour and control of wildfires and prescribed burns. The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System contains a Fine Fuel Moisture Code (FFMC) that produces a standard daily index of expected fine fuel moisture at the mid-afternoon peak of fire danger, but does not output normal diurnal variation in FFMC. This paper documents the development and updating of an earlier model of diurnal variation in FFMC, presents the underlying equations and a lookup table, and announces the availability of a computer program version of the model for various user applications.