Session 7 Fire Weather and Public Safety Power Shutoff Forecasting

Tuesday, 30 January 2024: 1:45 PM-3:00 PM
347/348 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs:
David M Siuta and Jared A. Lee, Ph.D., NSF NCAR

Several electric utilities are now required to implement Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) in response to elevated fire weather conditions. This topic should solicit presentations that example current forecast and monitoring practices in response to elevated fire weather conditions as well as ongoing research to improve forecast and monitoring capabilities and develop new technologies. Talks on PSPS decision making processes and workflow by meteorologists would also be relevant.

Papers:
1:45 PM
7.1
A Deep Learning Approach to Building Real Time Diagnostics of Fire Weather Risk in Southern California
Charles Jones, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and C. F. Thompson, D. M. Siuta, D. Seto, and N. Sette

2:00 PM
7.2
Benefits of using machine learning and probabilistic forecasting for Public Safety Power Shutoff planning
David M Siuta, Southern California Edison, Boston, MA

2:15 PM
7.3
Development and Assessment of an Ensemble Forecast System for Fire Weather and Public Safety Power Shutoffs in the Idaho Region
Masih Eghdami, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Wolff, J. A. Lee, Ph.D., J. H. Kim, T. J. Hertneky, S. A. Tessendorf, B. Kosovic, P. A. Jimenez, L. Xue, PhD, W. Petzke, P. McCarthy, M. L. Kunkel, N. Dawson, PhD, M. Meadows, and S. Parkinson

2:30 PM
7.4
Real-Time Fire Weather Forecasting for the Maui Wildfire on August 8
Feng Hsiao, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; Univ. of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and Y. L. Chen

2:45 PM
7.5
Changing Fire Weather in Colorado: A Contrast Between Observational Data and Reanalysis Data
Max M. Silver, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Lundquist

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