Session 3 |
| | Atmospheric Stability and Fire Behavior |
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Chairperson: Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI |
| 10:30 AM | 3.1 | Dynamics of fire plumes in vertical shear 
Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Goodrick, M. Y. Hussaini, R. R. Linn, and C. Xia |
| 10:45 AM | 3.2 | Numerical simulations of fire behavior in the presence of vertical wind shear
Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. R. Linn and J. Reisner |
| 11:00 AM | 3.3 | Using a simple parcel model to investigate the Haines Index
Mary Ann Jenkins, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. K. Krueger and R. Sun |
| 11:15 AM | 3.4 | Combining the Haines Index and turbulent kinetic energy for fire-weather predictions 
Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and X. Bian, J. J. Charney, and B. E. Potter |
| 11:30 AM | 3.5 | Effects of Near-Surface Atmospheric Stability and Moisture on Wildfire Behavior and Consequences for Haines Index
Ruiyu Sun, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. A. Jenkins |
| 11:45 AM | 3.6 | Relationship between atmospheric stability and area burned during the 1998 Florida wildfires
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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