Session 8 Absentee Abstracts

Thursday, 17 October 2013: 12:10 PM-12:15 PM
Meeting Room 1 (Holiday Inn University Plaza)
Host: Tenth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Papers:
Radar analysis of the Las Conchas Fire
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and R. R. Linn

Effects of Forest Overstory Vegetation on Near-Surface Atmospheric Turbulence during Surface Fire Events
Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and X. Bian, C. B. Clements, D. Seto, M. T. Kiefer, S. Zhong, and K. L. Clark

A simple theoretical model of the transition to flame attachment
Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA

Where the Wind Doesn't Blow: A Climatology of Air Stagnation Events in the United States

Sensitivity Analysis of Surface Smoke Concentrations to Variations in Fuels, Consumption, Emission Factors, Plume Rise, and Emissions Timing

A Short-Term Predictor of Satellite-Observed Fire Activity in the North American Boreal Forest: Toward Improving the Prediction of Smoke Emissions

The impact of climate change on fire weather over North America as projected by multiple regional climate models in NARCCAP
Ying Tang, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; and L. Luo, S. Zhong, X. Bian, and W. E. Heilman

Coupled atmosphere/topography effects on fire behavior

Biases in modeled vs. observed fire danger weather variables
Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. Drury, K. Craig, and N. Wheeler

The sensitivity of fire-behavior and smoke-dispersion indices to the diagnosed mixed-layer depth
Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and D. Keyser

Updates to the Weather Information Management System (WIMS), FireFamilyPlus, and the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS)

The Role of Moisture on Combustion of Pyrolysis Gases in Wildland Fires
Selina C. Ferguson, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and A. Dahale, B. Shotorban, S. Mahalingam, and D. R. Weise

Effects of heating mechanisms and moisture content on live fuel ignition: initial results
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and T. H. Fletcher, S. McAllister, W. M. Jolly, S. Mahalingam, B. Shotorban, J. Gallacher, B. L. Yashwanth, S. C. Ferguson, D. Jack, and V. Lansinger

Exploring a simple fire weather index in the Pacific Northwest
Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and M. Gonzalez Jr.

A new simple fire weather index

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