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Kah5 / Treering_FIA_fusion

Repository for fusing tree ring and forest inventory data across the interior west US
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TI and CI estimates producing unrealistic values #7

Closed Kah5 closed 1 year ago

Kah5 commented 2 years ago

In attempting to estimate Torching and Crowning Indices using mean fuel estimates from MTRI (https://fuels.mtri.org/about) using the firebehavioR package, we seem to be getting extremely high values for TI, and I think relatively high values fro CI.

This could be due to a variety of reasons:

  1. Not estimating/updating height with each new diameter year when estimating canopy fuels
  2. inappropriate estimates for a lot of the surface fuels...I am only including estimates for woody surface fuels from our plot data and making a naive assumption about what these fuels should be, assuming a "fuelModel" from the fuelModel data that comes with the package
  3. I did update the values with what I could using the mean values for PIPO forests, woodlands, etc from MTRI, but not all surface fuel inputs were in MTRI.
  4. other assumptions/arguments in the rothermal model could be the issue too.
Kah5 commented 1 year ago

This issue was fixed awhile back. The problem was where (what fuel pool) I was adding dead trees to, and that I was erroneously including the estimated biomass from FIA trees into woody biomass (surface pools).