
%0 Journal Article
%A Viney, NR 
%A Catchpole, EA 
%T Estimating Fuel Moisture Response Times From Field Observations
%J International Journal of Wildland Fire
%D 1991/12/01
%V 1
%N 4
%P 211-214
%K Time lag; Response time; Moisture content; Fine fuels
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/WF9910211
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/WF9910211 
%X 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. 
