Joint Session 11 |
| | Fire and Drought Indices |
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Chairpersons: Richard Ochoa, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID; Larry S. Bradshaw, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT |
| 1:30 PM | J11.1 | Development of a statistical validation methodology for fire weather indices  
Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and S. L. Goodrick and T. J. Brown |
| 1:45 PM | J11.2 | Drought Indexes as Indicators of Fire Activity
Patricia L. Andrews, USDA Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT |
| 2:00 PM | J11.3 | A comparison of precipitation and drought indices related to fire activity in the US
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| 2:15 PM | J11.4 | Validating the Overwintering Effect on the Drought Code in Elk Island National Park
Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and S. Otway |
| 2:30 PM | J11.5 | Independent field verification of a next-generation model for dead fuel moisture
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson, Jr., and R. R. Bensch |
| 2:45 PM | J11.6 | A comparison of 3 models of 1-hr time lag fuel moisture in Hawaii
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and F. M. Fujioka and R. M. Nelson, Jr. |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | J11.7 | The Validity of the Keetch/Byram Drought Index in the Hawaiian Islands
Klaus P. Dolling, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and P.-S. Chu and F. M. Fujioka |
| 3:45 PM | J11.8 | A Climatological Study of the Keetch/Byram Drought Index in the Hawaiian Islands
Pao-Shin Chu, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and K. P. Dolling and F. M. Fujioka |
| 4:00 PM | J11.9 | Exhausting relative greenness: Inaccurate Fire Potential Index for Florida?
Carter Stone, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Goodrick and D. E. Hanley |
| 4:15 PM | J11.10 | National standardized energy release component (ERC) forecasts
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown, L. S. Bradshaw, W. M. Jolly, and R. Nemani |