ICAMS Working Group for Fire Weather Services

The ICAMS Working Group for Fire Weather Services (WG-FWS) has been in operation for just over two years now, with representatives across NOAA, DHS, DOI, NASA, and USDA. During monthly meetings, members discuss topics ranging from wildfire and prescribed fire support to smoke and air quality operations. A full list of topics discussed include fire environment data collection, integrity, processing and archival, fire weather research and development, forecast products and services, modeling, prediction, and data assimilation, information dissemination and technologies, education, training, outreach, partnering, and collaboration. There is also discussion on user response, decision support, and resulting user impacts. The Chair of the WG-FWS, Heath Hockenberry, will present an overview of the working group's activities, accomplishments, and present high value and cross-agency fire environment topics.