Table 3 Average (standard error of the mean) percent soil and fuel moisture characteristics (dry weight basis) collected prior to burning in northern California chaparral prescribed fire plots at the Hopland (HREC) and Cow Mountain (COW) sites.
From: Measuring the Rate of Spread of Chaparral Prescribed fires in Northern California
June 1995 | November 2005 | February 2006 | December 2006 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HREC1 | HREC2 | COW | HREC3 | HREC4 | HREC5 | HREC6 | |
Soil 0–3 cm | - | - | 11.6 (0.2) | 7.8 (5.5) | 13.0 (7.0) | 21.3 (3.5) | 19.7 (3.9) |
Soil 3–6 cm | - | - | 10.9 (1.5) | 11.57 (2.9) | 11.6 (4.8) | 19.6 (4.2) | 18.1 (2.6) |
1 h Live-ADFA | 134.4 (10.5) | 146.3 (3.8) | 57.5 (1.8) | 90.7 (11.0) | 71.2 (3.1) | 80.4 (1.6) | 64.4 (3.4) |
1 h Dead-ADFA | 8.4 (0.2) | 8.0 (0.3) | 8.9 (0.5) | 8.7 (0.3) | 7.8 (0.5) | 8.8 (0.3) | 11.1 (0.2) |
1 h Live-CECU | - | 139. 6 (16.8) | - | 97.1 (14.7) | 105.5 (8.9) | 95.0 (18.2) | 79.9 (4.2) |
1 h Dead-CECU | - | - | - | 10.1 (0.6) | 10.3 (2.3) | 8.2 (1.5) | 11.7 (2.6) |
1 h Live-ARGL | 159.1 (16.3) | - | - | - | - | - | 86.2 (-) |
1 h Dead-ARGL | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9.4 (-) |
1 h Live-QUDU | - | 129.3 (7.5) | - | - | - | - | - |