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Monday, 1 May 2023

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 1 May 2023

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1A
Measurements and Modeling of Turbulence Transport and Diffusion In and Above Plant Canopies I
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 1-2 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )
Chair: Hong-Bing Su
CoChair: Kyaw Tha Paw U, University of California
9:00 AM
1A.1
Statistical Analysis of the Wake after a Single Fractal Tree Model Based on Large-Eddy Simulation
Shiyun Liu, The Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, 91, China; and C. H. Liu
Manuscript (6.1 MB)

Handout (5.7 MB)

9:15 AM
1A.2
Terrain Influences on Conifer Seed Dispersal
Ned Patton, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. P. Sullivan and J. C. Weil

9:30 AM
1A.3
Improving Accuracy of a Microscale Fast-Response Wind Modeling Platform (QES-Winds) By Downscaling Wind Data from a Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction Model (HRRR)
Behnam Bozorgmehr, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and F. Margairaz, R. Stoll, W. Mahaffee, J. Lee, and H. Liu

9:45 AM
1A.4
Evaluating the Parametrizations of Pressure-Gradient Interaction Terms in Higher-Order Closure Models for Airflows in and Above Plant Canopies
Hong-Bing Su, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC; East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC; and K. T. Paw U

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1B
Other Topics on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology I
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )
Chairs: Paul C. Stoy, University of Wisconsin; Eduardo Santos
9:00 AM
1B.1
Is Miscanthus, a Leading Bioenergy Crop, a Sink or Source of Carbon during the Establishment Year?
Guler Aslan Sungur, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and N. Boersma, J. Studt, E. Heaton, and A. VanLoocke

9:15 AM
1B.2
Sensitivity of Soil Respiration to Variability in Temperature and Moisture in a Semi-Arid Grassland
Praveena Krishnan, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and T. P. Meyers, M. Heuer, and J. Kochendorfer

9:30 AM
1B.3
Development of Rice Paddy Scheme Based on Noah Land Surface Model
Hee-Jeong Lim, Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu, Korea, Republic of (South); and Y. H. Lee

9:45 AM
1B.4
The Effect of Forest in Dampening the Diurnal Cycle on Land-Atmosphere Interaction
Yi-Shin Jang, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan; and M. H. Lo and S. Swenson

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 1 May 2023


AM Coffee Break
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Foyer (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 1 May 2023

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2
Measurements and Modeling of Turbulence Transport and Diffusion In and Above Plant Canopies II
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 1-2 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )
Chair: Hong-Bing Su
CoChair: Monique Leclerc, The University of Georgia
10:45 AM
2.1
Turbulent Transfer Coefficient Estimation from Simple Weather Station Data
Kyaw Tha Paw U, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and M. Metz, M. R. Mangan, and J. M. Clay

11:00 AM
2.2
Unfolding the Link between Forest Canopy Structure and Flow Morphology
Giulia Salmaso, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and R. B. Cal and M. Calaf

11:15 AM
2.3
Airborne Transport of the Pathogen Xanthomonas Hortorum pv. Carotae
Matthew Kyle Huckins, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

11:30 AM
Break

11:45 AM
2.5

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 1 May 2023


Lunch Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences; and the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology )

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 1 May 2023

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3
Revisiting the Energy Balance Closure Issue Using Eddy Covariance Technique I
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 1-2 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )
Chairs: William P. Kustas, USDA-ARS; Jose Fuentes, The Pennsylvania State Univ.
1:30 PM
3.1
Energy Budget Closure, Are We There Yet? after so Many Years, It Still Depends
Kyaw Tha Paw U, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA

Paper 3.2 is now Paper 4.5A

1:45 PM
Discussion

2:00 PM
3.3
Are We Courting Closure Controversy: Do Biological Processes Drive the Surface Energy Imbalance?
Jeffrey D. Wood, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and E. G. Cochran and L. Gu

2:30 PM
3.5
Does Relative Size of Sensible vs. Latent Heat Fluxes Affect Energy Balance Closure?
Martin Schroeder, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and L. Hipps and J. Carlisle

2:45 PM
3.6
The Surface-Boundary Layer Connection across Spatial Scales of Thermal Heterogeneity
Mary Rose Mangan, Wageningen Univ., Wageningen, Netherlands; and O. Hartogensis, A. A. Boone, O. Branch, G. Canut, J. Cuxart, H. deBoer, M. Le Page, D. Martínez-Villagrasa, J. R. Miró, J. Price, and J. Vila-Guerau de Arellano

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Monday, 1 May 2023


PM Coffee Break
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 3 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )

35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Posters
Host: 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
1
Contrasting Eddy Covariance CO2 and CH4 Fluxes from a Hydroelectric Reservoir and Natural Lake in a Boreal Watershed
Sajjan Heerah, Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada; and A. Thiboult, D. Nadeau, and M. Helbig

5
Estimating Carbon Fluxes in Montane Meadows Using Remote Sensing of Plant Phenology
William James Kahula O'Brien, San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA; and S. Mousavi, C. Martin, L. Blesius, J. Davis, and A. J. Oliphant

7
Phenological Measurements of Cover-Cropped Agricultural Systems Using Low-Cost Cameras
Shannon E. Brown, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada; and E. Eichelmann, C. Wagner-Riddle, and D. Collins

9
Developing a New Planting and Harvesting Algorithm For SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals
Matthew Gerald Kavanaugh, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and B. K. Hornbuckle

13
Influence of Species-Specific Hydraulic Traits on Stress Response: Insights from the Hydrodynamic Canopy Transpiration Model FETCH3.14
Justine Missik, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and G. Bohrer, M. Scyphers, J. Paulson, Y. Mau, A. M. Matheny, and A. M. Restrepo Acevedo

15
Investigating the Effects of Combined VPD-Soil Moisture Stress in a Semi-Arid Woodland
Ashley M. Matheny, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and A. Rechner, J. R. Mclaughlin, L. Beaman, A. M. Restrepo Acevedo, S. A. Cabraal, and M. Ulatowski

17
Comparing Specie-Specific Water Flux and Storage Dynamics Using in Situ measurements
Ana Maria Restrepo Acevedo, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

19
Parametrizing a Hydrodynamic Transpiration Model Using Bayesian Optimization for Anything (BOA), a Language-Agnostic Hyperparameter Tuning Package
Madeline Scyphers, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and J. Missik, G. Bohrer, and J. Paulson

21
Water Use of Miscanthus and Corn on Marginal Land in the North Carolina Coastal Plain Region
Henrique Da Ros Carvalho, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and J. Heitman, A. Howard, C. Crozier, A. Johnson, C. Sayde, and M. Chinn

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25
A Critical Analysis of the Surface Renewal Method for Scalar Flux Estimation
Olmo Guerrero Medina, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and K. T. Paw U and K. Suvočarev

27
Methane and Turbulence Dynamics Within the Canopy of an Amazonian Palm Swamp Peatland
Jeffrey D. Wood, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and D. T. Roman and T. J. Griffis

29
Measuring Field-Scale Nitrous Oxide Emissions Using the Eddy Covariance Technique
Chinthaka Bandara Weerasekara, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS; and E. Santos, S. Welch, B. Washburn, and A. E. Q. Rocha

31
Flux Footprint Models: Incorporating New Parameters
Chitra Chopra, Univ. of California Davis, Davis, CA; and K. T. Paw U and K. Suvočarev

33
Impact of Synoptic Events on Microclimate Dynamics of a Perennial Agroecosystem
Noah L Ring, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and N. A. Brunsell

35
Raising Water Table Depth on Peatlands and Impacts on Grazing Herds Welfare
Wanda Gherca, Univ. College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; and C. D. Evans, P. Leahy, R. Morrison, and E. Eichelmann

Handout (819.3 kB)

39
Analyzing the Agricultural Impact and Recovery from Major Drought Events in Kansas
Gracie Ingalls, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and N. A. Brunsell

41
Fire Impacts on the Environmental and Ecological Factors of the Amazon Rainforest
Megan Hamersky, Univ. of Kansas, Lecompton, KS; and N. A. Brunsell

4:30 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 1 May 2023

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4
Revisiting the Energy Balance Closure Issue Using Eddy Covariance Technique II
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 1-2 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )
Chairs: Joseph G. Alfieri; Jose D. Fuentes, Pennsylvania State University
4:30 PM
4.1
The Utah Flux Network: A Dry Tale of Consumptive Use in the West
Kathryn Ladig, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT; and P. C. Inkenbrandt

5:00 PM
4.3A
Non-Closure of Surface Energy Balance Linked to the Influence of Large Turbulent Eddies
Heping Liu, Washington State Univ., PULLMAN, WA; and Z. Gao and G. G. Katul

Paper 4.5 is now Paper 5.5

5:15 PM
4.4
5:30 PM
Break

5:45 PM
4.6

Tuesday, 2 May 2023

8:25 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 2 May 2023

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Session 1
Case Studies
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Alan F. Srock
8:25 AM
Welcoming Remarks

8:30 AM
1.1
Opening Comments from an Operational Perspective (Invited Presentation)
Francisco Romero, National Interagency Fire Center, Boise, ID

8:45 AM
1.2
Roles of Synoptic Forcing on Observed Trends in California Wildfires
Stella Abosede Afolayan, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State Univ., Greensboro, NC; and A. Mekonnen and Y. L. Lin

9:00 AM
1.3
Comparing Lightning Detection Networks for Wildfire Ignition Attribution
Benjamin J. Hatchett, DRI, Reno, NV; and N. J. Nauslar and T. J. Brown

9:15 AM
1.4
Sundowners and Mountain Wave Activity: The 28-29 April, 2022 Event during the Sundowner Winds Experiment (SWEX)
Kiera L Malarkey, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and M. de Orla-Barile, L. M. Carvalho, G. J. Duine, and C. B. Clements

9:30 AM
1.5
Convective Density Current Circulations That Modulated Meso-γ Surface Winds Near the Yarnell Hill Fire
Michael L. Kaplan, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Prescott, AZ; North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC; and S. M. S. Karim, J. T. Wiles, C. N. James, PhD, Y. L. Lin, and J. G. Riley

9:45 AM
1.6
Observations of Fire Whirls during a Prescribed Fire
Masahiko Shinohara, National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Suina, S. Matsushima, and H. Saiki

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 2 May 2023

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5
Other Topics on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology II
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 1-2 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )
Chair: Anam Munir Khan
8:45 AM
5.2
Quantifying Methane Emissions from Point Sources Using Dual-Comb Spectroscopy
Eduardo Santos, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS; and C. B. Weerasekara, L. Santos, B. DePaola, S. Welch, and B. Washburn

9:00 AM
5.3
Net Greenhouse Gas Emissions from ‘Perennialized’ Annual Cropping Systems in a Cold Climate
Claudia Wagner-Riddle, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada; and S. E. Brown, A. Tariq, N. Menheere, and J. Evans

9:15 AM
5.4
Determining the Net Greenhouse Gas Budget of Corn Production in Southwestern Ontario Using Long Term Flux Measurements
Shannon E. Brown, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada; and C. Wagner-Riddle, N. Menheere, and A. Tariq

9:30 AM
5.5
Daily Evapotranspiration of Urban Turfgrass Using Two Source Energy Balance Model and Remote Sensing
Lawrence E. Hipps, Utah State Univ., PSC Department, Logan, UT; and L. Hipps, A. Torres-Rua, W. Kustas, K. Kopp, H. Chu, M. Schroeder, and K. Meza Capcha

9:45 AM
5.6
Long And Short-Term Effects of Changing Water Elevation on CO2 and CH4 fluxes and Nutrient Sequestration in a Temperate Lake-Coastal Wetland
Gil Bohrer, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and J. Missik, J. Villa, Y. Ju, H. Kujawa, Y. Onyango, T. Yazbeck, and O. Shchehlov

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Tuesday, 2 May 2023


AM Coffee Break
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Foyer (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium; the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 2 May 2023

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Session 2
Modeling Studies I
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Tara L. Jensen, NOAA
11:00 AM
2.2
WindNinja Simulations in Canyons and Complex Terrain
Marc Buchs, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and C. B. Clements

11:15 AM
2.3
An Analysis of Vertical Plume Extent Forecasted with the WRFx System and WRF-SFIRE using MISR Plume Height Data
Kathleen Nicole Clough, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and A. Kochanski and A. Farguell

11:30 AM
2.4
Sensitivity of the WRF-SFIRE Model to Changes in Fuel Moisture Content
James Haley, CIRA, Lakewood, CO; and K. A. Hilburn, A. Farguell, J. Mandel, and A. Kochanski

11:45 AM
2.5
An Analysis of Fire-Atmosphere Interactions on Fire Propagation in Steep Canyons Using Idealized WRF-SFIRE Simulations
Justin Mirabilis Haw, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and A. K. Kochanski and A. Farguell

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6
Other Topics on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology III
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 1-2 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )
Chair: Anam Munir Khan
10:45 AM
6.1
The Walker Branch and Chestnut Ridge Ameriflux Sites; Can They be Combined to Create a Multi-Decadal Quasi-Continuous Dataset
John Kochendorfer, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, OAK RIDGE, TN; and P. Krishnan, T. P. Meyers, M. Heuer, R. Saylor, T. Wilson, and T. R. Lee

11:00 AM
6.2
An Assessment of the Ozone Flux Budget over a Temperate Coniferous Forest Using Comprehensive Observations and 1D Vertical Canopy Modeling
Michael P. Vermeuel, Univ. of Minnesota, Saint PAUL, MN; and D. B. Millet, D. K. Farmer, L. Ganzeveld, M. Pothier, M. F. Link, A. J. Visser, M. Riches, S. Williams, and L. A. Garofalo

11:15 AM
6.3
Evaluate a Hierarchical Modeling Framework for Decomposing Fluxes at Heterogeneous Eddy-Covariance Sites
Housen Chu, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA; and P. Y. Oikawa, T. Fenster, C. Rey-Sanchez, I. Dronova, A. Valach, D. D. Baldocchi, J. Verfaillie, W. S. Chan, S. Dengel, S. C. Biraud, and M. Torn

11:30 AM
6.4
Carbon Sequestration and Storage in Mountain Meadow Ecosystems and Implications for Climate Resiliency
Andrew J. Oliphant, San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA; and S. Mousavi, D. Blackburn, and S. Maher

11:45 AM
6.5
Assessing the Potential Environmental Benefits of Perennial Agriculture
Nathaniel A. Brunsell, Univ. of Kansas, LAWRENCE, KS

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 2 May 2023


Lunch Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium; the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 2 May 2023

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Session 3
Studies Combining Field, Laboratory, and/or Modeling Work to Address Knowledge Gaps
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Rod Linn, LANL
1:30 PM
3.1
Developing an Hourly Fire Progression Database for Large California Wildfires: Application for Modeling Fire Spread Rate
Tianjia Liu, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and J. T. Randerson, Y. Chen, D. Morton, E. B. Wiggins, P. Smyth, and E. Foufoula-Georgiou

1:45 PM
3.2
Examining the Effects of Buildings on Fire Front Rate of Spread in an Incendiary Test Tunnel
Matthew Moody, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and R. Stoll and B. N. Bailey

2:00 PM
3.3
Characteristics and Short-Range Transport of Firebrands Generated by a Pile Fire
Alec Petersen, Univ. of California Irvine, Irvine, CA; and T. Banerjee

2:15 PM
3.4
2:30 PM
3.5
5G Drones: Real Time Data Assimilation to Transform Wildfire Predictability
Jon M. Reisner, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and A. J. Josephson, H. C. Godinez, J. E. Lee, M. K. Dubey, and C. Carrico

2:45 PM
3.6
Combining Handheld and Airborne Wildland-Urban Interface Field Measurements for AI Methods
David Ryglicki, MyRadar, Lakeland, FL; and G. Greenwood and S. Garimella

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7
Plants and Ecosystems’ Water Use Strategies Under Limited Environmental Conditions and Disturbances
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 1-2 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )
Chair: Ana Maria Restrepo Acevedo
1:30 PM
7.1
Evapotranspiration Partitioning Using Machine Learning
Elke Eichelmann, Univ. College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland; and A. Stapleton, P. Foley, and M. Roantree

1:45 PM
7.2
Evapotranspiration Controls across Spatial Scales of Heterogeneity
Mary Rose Mangan, Wageningen Univ., Wageningen, Netherlands; and O. Hartogensis, C. van Heerwaarden, and J. Vila-Guerau de Arellano

2:00 PM
7.3
Observing the Diurnal Cycle of Corn Canopy Water Storage with Destructive and Microwave Measurements
Richard Jay Cirone, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and B. K. Hornbuckle and A. Kruger

Handout (793.7 kB)

2:15 PM
7.4
The Effects of High Vapor Pressure Deficit on Tree Water Status in Forests
Suvan Anthony Cabraal, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and A. M. Matheny, D. Rempe, A. M. Restrepo Acevedo, M. Ulatowski, and D. Smith

2:45 PM
7.6
Numerical Investigation of Flux Partitioning Methods for Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide
Einara Zahn, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and K. Ghannam, M. Chamecki, A. F. Moene, and E. Bou-Zeid

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 2 May 2023


PM Coffee Break
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 3 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium; the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )

14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium Posters
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Brian Potter
2
4
Extensive Wildland Fire Weather Research of the Tragic June 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire
Fred J. Schoeffler, Project 10 & 18 International, Pine, AZ; and J. A. Collura

6
The Effects of Fire-Atmosphere Coupling on Predicting Fire Front Behavior
Matthew Moody, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and B. N. Bailey, R. Stoll, and S. K. Krueger

8
Dead Fuel Moisture Climatology Dataset of California
Angel Farguell, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and A. Kochanski, J. Drucker, W. Jolly, J. Mandel, and J. D. Mirocha

16
Leveraging a Physically-Based Dead Fuel Moisture Model to Inform Western United States Utility Wildfire Mitigation Operations
Xin Qu, Atmospheric Data Solutions, LLC, Jackson, WY; and S. B. Capps and J. Kalkhof

18
Spatial Metrics of Fire Geometry and Their Relationship to Fire Areal Growth
Kara Yedinak, USDA, Madison, WI; and B. E. Potter, A. Bova, S. Illson, and L. Pierce

20
Research Support for Crisis Strategy Prescribed Burns
Brian E. Potter, USDA, Seattle, WA; and J. Dubowy, A. M. Chiodi, A. Rowe, V. Cork, E. Alvarado, N. Larkin, S. O'Neill, and A. Bova

22
Changes in Summer-Nighttime Stability, Wind Speed and Fuel Moisture over the Western US
Andrew M. Chiodi, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and B. Potter and N. Larkin

24
A Semi-Simple Approach for Estimating Fire Season Length
Tom Rolinski, Southern California Edison, Irwindale, CA; Southern California Edison, Rosemead, CA

26
The Hot-Dry-Windy Index: R2O, the Cloud, and Ongoing Development
Joseph J. Charney, USDA, Lansing, MI; USDA, Lansing, MI; and A. F. Srock, B. E. Potter, and J. M. McDonald

28
Using ERA5-Land in RAWS QC and Estimation Process
Timothy J. Brown, ; and H. Reinbold and G. McCurdy

30
A 25-Year Climatology of Air Stagnation Events in North America
Michaela D. Ericksen, St. Cloud State Univ., St. Cloud, MN; and A. F. Srock

32
Characterizing Updraft and Plume Properties Spanning the FIREX-AQ and CalFiDE Field Campaigns
Edward J. Strobach, CIRES, Bel Air, MD; and A. W. Brewer, B. J. Carroll, S. Baidar, B. J. McCarty, and C. J. Senff

Handout (510.9 kB)

34
Decision-Making on the Fireline: Is Probabilistic Information Useful?
Mark R. Loeffelbein, NWS, Salt Lake City, UT

38
Beyond the Big-Leaf Model for NOAA’s Unified Air Quality Forecasting Capabilities
Patrick C. Campbell, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and P. Makar, B. Baker, Y. Tang, F. Yang, R. Montuoro, R. Saylor, W. T. Hung, and Z. Moon

42
Improving Consistency of National Weather Service Fire Weather Products in the Plains and Midwest
Chris Foltz, NWS, Kansas City, MO; and K. Cook, R. Wolf, M. Bunkers, and C. Schultz

4:30 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 2 May 2023

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Session 4
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Applications to Fire I
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Christopher Rodell, PhD Candidate , University of British Columbia
4:30 PM
4.1
Machine Learning Historical and Forecasted Gridded Live Fuel Moisture Content
Wei Zhuang, Atmospheric Data Solutions, Irvine, CA

4:45 PM
4.2
Machine Learning Historical and Forecasted Gridded Grassland NDVI
Rui Liu, Atmospheric Data Solutions, LLC, Tustin, CA

5:00 PM
4.3
Deep-Learning Based Fusion of Satellite Data with Physics-Based Models for Initializing Wildfire Forecast
Assad Anshuman Oberai, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; and B. Shaddy, V. Calaza, A. Farguell, J. Haley, K. Hillburn, D. V. V. Mallia, A. K. Kochanski, and J. Mandel

5:15 PM
4.4
Statistical Forecasting of the Wildfire Season in Alaska and across Northern North America Using Machine Learning
Christine F Waigl, IARC, Fairbanks, AK; Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and E. Fischer, U. S. Bhatt, P. Bieniek, C. Borries-Strigle, J. Hostler, R. Lader, H. Strader, and E. Stevens

5:30 PM
4.5
Machine Learning for Fuel Moisture in Time and Space, Dead or Live
Jan Mandel, Univ. of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO; and J. Hirschi, A. Kochanski, A. Farguell Caus, J. Haley, D. V. V. Mallia, B. Shaddy, A. A. Oberai, and K. A. Hilburn

5:45 PM
4.6
Toward Prediction of Pyrocumulonimbus with Machine Learning
Chuyen T Nguyen, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA; and E. A. Krell, J. Nachamkin, D. A. Peterson, E. J. Hyer, S. A. King, P. E. Tissot, K. J. Tory, and J. R. Campbell

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8
Radiative Fluxes in Forest and Agricultural Systems
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 1-2 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )
Chair: Michael Leuchner
4:30 PM
8.1
Assessing Light Use Efficiency of a Temperate Spruce Forest from Environmental Drivers
Michael Leuchner, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany; and O. Reitz, H. Bogena, B. Neuwirth, A. Graf, and A. Sanchez-Azofeifa

5:00 PM
8.3
Using Radiative Flux Measurements from Climate Networks to Improve our Understanding of Radiative Energy Available for Plant Growth
Laura D. Riihimaki, CIRES/NOAA GML, Boulder, CO; CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Augustine, K. A. Balmes, V. Caicedo, E. Hall, C. Herrera, G. Hodges, A. Jordan, K. O. Lantz, J. Sedlar, L. M. Soldo, S. Stierle, H. Telg, and F. Zamora

5:15 PM
8.4
A Model for Forest Canopy Effects on Weather and Atmospheric Composition in the NOAA Unified Forecast System
Zachary Moon, ERT, Inc., Laurel, MD; ARL, College Park, MD; and P. C. Campbell, W. T. Hung, and B. Baker

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Tuesday, 2 May 2023


Game Night (Icebreaker Reception)
Location: Denmark Commons (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium; the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )
Chair: Kara Yedinak, USDA

Wednesday, 3 May 2023

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 3 May 2023

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Session 5
Decision Support Tool Development and Communication
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Aaron Pina, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division
8:30 AM
5.1
8:45 AM
5.2
Rapid Burn Severity Mapping for Post-Fire Flood and Landslide Risk Awareness
Danielle Losos, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and S. Batzli

9:00 AM
5.3
Prescribed Fire and Smoke Planner: Development of a Planning and Decision Support System for Prescribed Burning
Andrew M. Chiodi, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. Larkin, J. Dubowy, and B. Potter

9:15 AM
5.4
Potential Utility of Atmospheric Evaporative Demand in Assessing Wildland Fire Potential
Andrew Jesus Andrade, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. J. McEvoy, T. J. Brown, and B. A. Parker

9:30 AM
5.5
On the Meteorological Conditions Influencing Prescribed Burn Windows Across the United States
Janine A. Baijnath-Rodino, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and J. Muniz, R. York, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, and T. Banerjee

9:45 AM
5.6
An Integrated Warning Team Approach to Fire Warnings
T. Todd Lindley, NOAA, Norman, OK; and M. Fox, R. Smith, A. B. Zwink, D. Speheger, R. Barnes, D. Daily, B. Smith, C. M. Gravelle, and P. E. Reiter
Manuscript (1015.8 kB)

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9
Topics in Atmospheric Biogeosciences
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 1-2 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences; and the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology )
Chairs: William Kustas, USDA; Tianxin Wang
8:30 AM
9.1
Persistence Behavior of Heat and Momentum Fluxes in Surface-Atmosphere Exchange
Tirtha Banerjee, NSF, Irvine, CA; and S. Chowdhuri

8:45 AM
9.2
Annual Variability and Regional Fluxes Derived from a 100-Year Site Cluster
David E. Reed, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; Yale University, New Haven, CT; and J. Chen and M. Abraha

9:00 AM
9.3
Impact of Hemlock Wooley Adelgid Infestation on Forest-Atmosphere Fluxes in a New England Hemlock Stand
J William Munger, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and J. Matthes and D. Orwig

9:15 AM
9.4
Impact of Different Canopy Schemes in the E3SM Land Model on Energy and Carbon Flux Simulations in an Amazonian Swamp Peatland
Fenghui Yuan, Univ. of Minnesota, St Paul, MN; and T. J. Griffis, D. M. Ricciuto, J. D. Wood, D. T. Roman, J. Rengifo, A. Lafuente, E. Lilleskov, L. Fachin, C. Wayson, and R. Chimner

9:30 AM
9.5
Advanced Photon Source Capabilities for Biological and Environmental Science
Zou Finfrock, ANL, Lemont, IL; ANL, Lemont, IL; and K. Michalska

9:45 AM
9.6
Urban Eddy Covariance - The INFLUX Network
Jason Patrick Horne, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and K. J. Davis, N. L. Miles, S. J. Richardson, S. Murphy, and H. C. R. Kenion

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Wednesday, 3 May 2023


AM Coffee Break
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Foyer (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium; the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 3 May 2023

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Session 6
Modeling Studies II
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Angel Farguell Caus
10:45 AM
6.1
A Versatile Physics-Based Rate of Spread Model for Backfires and Steep Terrain Conditions.
Aurélien Costes, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and A. K. Kochanski

11:00 AM
6.2
Linking Prescribed Fire Ignition Patterns to Plume Dynamics Using QUIC-Fire
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA, Athens, GA; and R. R. Linn

11:15 AM
6.3
Rethinking the Response of Fuels to Changes in Atmospheric Moisture
Brian E. Potter, USDA; and K. Yedinak, S. Glass, and S. Zelinka

11:30 AM
6.4
METplus: A Comprehensive Verification System for NWP Expanding into Fire Weather
Tara L. Jensen, National Center for Atmospheric Research and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and A. R. Siems-Anderson

11:45 AM
6.5
QUIC-Fire: Current Capabilities of a Fast-Running Tool for Prescribed Fire Applications
Rodman R. Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and S. Goodrick, S. Brambilla, D. Robinson, M. Brown, J. O'Brien, and J. K. Hiers

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10
Monitoring the Interactions Between Vineyards and Orchards and Their Environment
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 1-2 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences; and the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology )
Chairs: Martha C. Anderson, ARS; Joseph G. Alfieri
11:00 AM
10.2
Application of Evapotranspiration Partitioning Methods over an Almond Orchard
William P. Kustas, ARS, BELTSVILLE, MD; and N. E. Bambach, K. R. Knipper, A. McElrone, T. Buckley, A. Torres-Rua, E. Zahn, S. Castro, J. Prueger, M. Schroeder, J. G. Alfieri, E. Frehner, B. N. Bailey, M. Roby, and E. Bou-Zeid

11:15 AM
10.3
Coherent Interactions of Turbulence and Microclimate in Irrigated Vineyards
Lawrence E. Hipps, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and J. Prueger, J. Alfieri, W. P. Kustas, and N. E. Bambach

11:30 AM
Break / Discussion

11:45 AM
10.5
Turbulent Flow over a California Vineyard Under Non-Advective and Advective Conditions
Joseph G. Alfieri, USDA-ARS Hydrology & Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD; and W. P. Kustas, J. Prueger, L. Hipps, and N. E. Bambach

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 3 May 2023


Lunch Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium; the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Wednesday, 3 May 2023


Session
14Fire Luncheon
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Timothy J. Brown
12:15 PM
L1.1
Keynote Speaker - Jack McGowan-Stinski
Jack McGowan-Stinski, The Ohio State Univ., Wooster, OH

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 3 May 2023

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Session 7
Climate and Reanalysis Studies
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Andrew M. Chiodi
1:30 PM
7.1
The Impact of Snowmelt Timing on the Predictability of the Early Wildfire Season in Alaska
Peter Bieniek, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and U. S. Bhatt, C. F. Waigl, R. Lader, T. J. Ballinger, J. Hostler, C. Borries-Strigle, E. Fischer, M. Burgard, H. Strader, and E. Stevens

Handout (2.9 MB)

1:45 PM
7.2
A Live Fuel Moisture Climatology in California
Jack Drucker, San Jose State Unversity, San Jose, CA; and A. K. Kochanski, C. B. Clements, C. Bowers, D. Pina, Y. Moon, C. Arends, and B. D'Augustino

2:00 PM
7.3
Downslope Windstorms in the Front Range: A 21-Year Climatological Analysis
Serena DiLeonardo, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Lundquist

2:15 PM
7.4
Worldwide Pyrocumulonimbus Inventory Reveals the Frequency, Variability, and Stratospheric Impact of Smoke-Infused Storms during 2013-2021
David A. Peterson, NRL, Monterey, CA; NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. Berman, M. D. Fromm, W. J. Julstrom, R. Servranckx, E. J. Hyer, J. R. Campbell, and T. M. McHardy

2:30 PM
7.5
Creating a 43-Year High Spatial and Temporal Resolution WRF Reanalysis for California and Nevada
Timothy J. Brown, ; and M. G. Fearon, H. Reinbold, and D. Podnar

2:45 PM
7.6
Importance of Soil Moisture in Understanding and Predicting Fire Danger: A Review of Some Recent Research
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and E. S. Krueger, T. E. Ochsner, D. M. Engle, D. Twidwell, S. D. Fuhlendorf, S. Sharma, and M. R. Levi

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11
Monitoring the Interactions Between Vineyards and Orchards and Their Environment II
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 1-2 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences; and the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology )
Chairs: Martha C. Anderson, ARS; Joseph G. Alfieri
1:30 PM
11.1
Large-Area Mapping of Vineyard Evapotranspiration Using the OpenET Remote Sensing Framework on Google Earth Engine
Martha C. Anderson, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, UT; and Y. Yang, K. R. Knipper, J. Xue, W. P. Kustas, F. Gao, and C. R. Hain

1:45 PM
11.2
Correcting Optical Ground Measurement of Leaf Area Index (LAI) Using the Path Length Distribution Model in California Vineyards: Increasing Accuracy for Validating Remote Tools
Ian Robb Wright, UC Davis, Davis, CA; and A. McElrone, M. Mar Alsina, B. N. Bailey, F. Gao, A. Torres-Rua, A. White, W. P. Kustas, and N. E. Bambach

2:00 PM
11.3
The Tree-Crop Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration eXperiment (T-REX): Exploring Smart-Agricultural Practices for Sustainable Water Management and Climate Mitigation
Nicolas E. Bambach, Univ. of California Davis, Davis, CA; and K. R. Knipper, M. Nocco, A. McElrone, A. Torres-Rua, W. Kustas, M. C. Anderson, I. R. Wright, S. Castro, P. Tolentino, A. Gal, E. Edwards, M. Duran-Gomez, J. Prueger, J. Alfieri, L. E. Hipps, and S. Saa

2:15 PM
11.4
Transpiration in a Pecan Orchard in the Southeast USA
Gengsheng Zhang, Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA; and M. Leclerc and L. Wells

2:30 PM
11.5
Heatwave Effects on Irrigated Mediterranean Orchards
Yair Mau, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Rehovot, M, Israel; and L. Rez and G. Bohrer

2:45 PM
Discussion

3:00 PM-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 3 May 2023


PM Coffee Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium; the 35th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; and the Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences )

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Wednesday, 3 May 2023


Sixth Conference on Biogeosciences Posters
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 3 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: Sixth Conference on Atmospheric Biogeosciences
43
Improving Wetland Model Realism: Activating and Evaluating Sub-Grid Level Wetland Land-Unit in the E3SM Land Model (ELM)
Theresia yazbeck, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and G. Bohrer, M. Scyphers, J. Missik, Y. Onyango, E. Ward, R. Bordelon, D. Taj, J. Villa, K. Wrighton, Q. Zhu, and W. Riley

44
A New Tool for Direct Evapotranspiration Measurements
William Miller, LI-COR, LINCOLN, NE; and G. Fratini, J. McCoy, R. Walbridge, D. Trutna, A. Parr, K. Gerot, A. Frodyma, I. Fuhrman, L. Xu, and G. Burba

45
Prospects of Direct Evapotranspiration Measurements for Immediate Societal Benefits
William Miller, LI-COR, LINCOLN, NE; and G. Fratini, J. McCoy, R. Walbridge, D. Trutna, A. Parr, K. Gerot, A. Frodyma, I. Fuhrman, L. Xu, and G. Burba

48
Regional Nitrous Oxide Emissions and Its Biogeochemical Fingerprints
Timothy J. Griffis, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; and Z. Yu, J. Baker, and A. Frie

3:45 PM-5:15 PM: Wednesday, 3 May 2023

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Session 8
Fire Weather Research Program Overviews
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Joseph J. Charney, USDA
3:45 PM
8.1
NOAA Fire Weather Research Program and Fire Weather Activities at NOAA's Weather Program Office
Frank Jordan Dale, OAR, Silver Spring, MD; and D. M. Koch, J. L. Mahoney, G. M. Eosco, Ph.D, and M. Huang

4:45 PM
8.5
Status of the NOAA Fire Weather Testbed
Daniel D. Nietfeld, NOAA/Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and R. L. Heffernan and M. Pavalonis

5:00 PM
8.6
The NOAA/NESDIS Wildland Fire Program: A New Initiative for Impactful Exploitation of Satellites in Support of Wildland Fire Applications
Michael Pavolonis, NOAA, Madison, WI; and I. A. Csiszar, V. M. Escobar, M. D. Goldberg, A. Hill, S. Kondragunta, R. I. Lana, M. Laurino, E. C. McCaskill, T. M. Renkevens, BS (Millersville), MS (Oklahoma) Meteorology, and I. Zelo, MMA

5:15 PM-6:15 PM: Wednesday, 3 May 2023


Session
14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium Virtual Posters
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chairs: Brian Potter; Nicholas J. Nauslar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, The University of Oklahoma, and NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center
5:15 PM
V1
Cooperative Observations from Multiple Altitudes Can Yield Needed Operational Support and Advances in Wildland Fire Science.
J Timothy Ball, Fireball Information Technologies, LLC, Reno, NV; and C. Schmidt, C. Kuo, E. Wishnow, and C. R. Pennypacker

5:25 PM
V2
A Multi-Index Examination of Future Fire Season Length and Severity Over the United States
Lee Kessenich, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. S. Bukovsky, PhD, S. McGinnis, L. O. Mearns, A. Cullen, and J. T. Abatzoglou

Handout (10.2 MB)

5:35 PM
V3
Proof-of-Concept Mesoscale Discussions for Short-Term Wildfire Prediction on the Southern Great Plains
T. Todd Lindley, NOAA, Norman, OK; and G. Murdoch and P. T. Marsh
Manuscript (642.9 kB)

Handout (3.3 MB)

5:55 PM
V5
Dew Point Bombs: Large Model Errors Provide an Obvious Target of Opportunity for Fire Weather Forecasters
John R. Banghoff, MS, Penn State University; BS, The Ohio State University, NWS, State College, PA; NWS, State College, PA; and R. Radzanowski, M. L. Jurewicz Sr., M. R. Colbert, M. S. Katsouros, and P. Baumann

Handout (8.5 MB)

6:05 PM
V6
Compounding Impacts of Drought on Post-Fire Vegetation Response in Western U.S
Shahryar K Ahmad, NASA GSFC, Lanham, MD; GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and T. R. Holmes, S. V. Kumar, PhD, T. M. Lahmers, K. Locke, A. Guzman, and F. Melton

Thursday, 4 May 2023

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Thursday, 4 May 2023

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Session 9
Field Studies
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Susan M. O'Neill, CIMMS
8:45 AM
9.1
The California Canyon Fire Experiment - Initial Results
Maritza Arreola Amaya, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and C. B. Clements, M. M. Valero, A. K. Kochanski, A. Simeoni, A. Filkov, P. Reszka, and J. Cuevas

9:00 AM
9.3
Wildfire Observations By Airborne and Truck-Based Mobile Doppler Lidars during the California Fire Dynamics Experiment (CalFiDE)
Brian J. Carroll, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and A. W. Brewer, E. J. Strobach, M. Zucker, M. W. Holloway, R. Marchbanks, B. J. McCarty, A. S. Makowiecki, N. P. Lareau, and C. B. Clements

9:30 AM
9.5
Investigating the Turbulent Dynamics of Small-Scale Surface Fires
Ajinkya Desai, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and S. Goodrick and T. Banerjee

9:45 AM
9.6
The Role of the Dappled Canopy: Diurnal Patterns in Surface Fuel Micrometeorology
Kara Yedinak, ; and J. K. Hiers, J. Cannon, B. E. Potter, and A. W. Whelan

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Thursday, 4 May 2023


AM Coffee Break
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Foyer (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; and the 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium )

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 4 May 2023

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Session 10
Operational Forecasting (Short- to Long-Term) of Weather
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Nicholas J. Nauslar, SPC
10:45 AM
10.1
Developing Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Vegetation Greenness Outlooks
Farnaz Hosseinpour, PhD, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown

11:00 AM
10.2
Fire Weather Forecasting in the Pacific Northwest using 500mb Map Types
Reed Humphrey, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. Saltenberger, J. T. Abatzoglou, and A. Cullen

11:15 AM
10.3
Early Warnings for Pyrocumulonimbus Development in Western North America Based on NUCAPS Thermodynamic Profiles
Arunas P. Kuciauskas, Retired, Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, MONTEREY, CA; and D. A. Peterson, A. A. Lambert, and J. R. Campbell

11:30 AM
10.4
Use of Traditional and Neural-Network Based Post-Processing Techniques to Improve Fire-Indicator and Wildfire-Relevant Weather Variable Forecasts 2–6 Weeks Ahead
Rochelle P. Worsnop, CIRES, Boulder, CO; ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Scheuerer, T. M. Hamill, M. Chen, M. Breeden, and A. J. Hoell

11:45 AM
10.5A
A Week-Two Probabilistic Fire Danger Outlook Tool Based on NCEP Ensemble Forecast System
Mingyue Chen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD; and R. P. Worsnop, W. Wang, and D. Dewitt

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 4 May 2023


Lunch Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; and the 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium )

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 4 May 2023

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Session 11
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Applications to Fire II
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Wei-Ting Hung
1:30 PM
11.1
Exploring the Impact of Modeling Choices on Model Performance when Predicting Wildfire Occurrence for CONUS Using the Unet3+ Deep Learning Model
Bethany Earnest, CIWRO, Norman, OK; CIWRO, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, C. Karstens, and I. L. Jirak

1:45 PM
11.2
Remote Sensing of Live Fuel Moisture Content Using Machine Learning
Angel Farguell, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and A. Kochanski, J. Drucker, Y. Moon, C. Bowers, D. Pina, C. Arends, and B. D'Augustino

2:00 PM
11.3
Using Hybrid AI for Multiscale Wildfire Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Jared Michael Goldman, Charles River Analytics, Cambridge, MA; and A. Pfeffer, S. Cvijic, N. McGeorge, and M. Hiett

2:15 PM
11.4
A Classification Model for Daily Lightning Intensities in Alaska
Joshua Hostler, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and U. S. Bhatt, P. Bieniek, E. Fischer, T. J. Ballinger, C. Borries-Strigle, R. Thoman, R. Lader, M. Burgard, C. F. Waigl, J. Chriest, H. Strader, E. Stevens, and Z. Parish

2:30 PM
11.5
Development and Evaluation of a Machine Learning Based Wildfire Spread Prediction Model for Regional Air Quality Forecasting
Wei-Ting Hung, ARL, College Park, MD; George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and B. Baker, P. C. Campbell, Y. Tang, G. R. Jeong, and Z. Moon

2:45 PM
11.6
A Fast Fire Rate of Spread Model Leveraging Machine Learning
Adam Kochanski, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and A. Farguell, J. Drucker, and J. Mandel

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 4 May 2023


PM Coffee Break
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Foyer (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; and the 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium )

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 4 May 2023

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Session 12
Smoke from Prescribed Fires and Wildfires
Location: Scandinavian Ballroom Salon 4 (Royal Sonesta Minneapolis Downtown )
Host: 14th Fire and Forest Meteorology Symposium
Chair: Scott Goodrick, USDA
4:00 PM
12.1
Profiles of Operational and Research Forecasting of Smoke and Air Quality Around the World
Susan M. O'Neill, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and P. Xian, J. Flemming, M. Cope, A. Baklanov, N. Larkin, J. K. Vaughan, D. Tong, R. Howard, R. Stull, D. Davignon, R. Ahmadov, M. T. Odman, J. Innis, M. Azzi, C. Gan, R. Pavlovic, B. N. Chew, J. S. Reid, E. J. Hyer, Z. Kipling, A. Benedetti, P. R. Colarco, A. M. da Silva, T. Tanaka, J. T. McQueen, P. S. Bhattacharjee, J. Guth, N. Asencio, O. Jorba, C. P. Garcia-Pando, R. Kouznetsov, M. Sofiev, M. Brooks, J. Chen, E. P. James, F. Reisen, A. Wain, K. McTaggart, and A. MacNeil

4:15 PM
12.2
A Numerical Study of Smoke Dispersion Sensitivity to Forest Canopy Structure and Fire Sensible Heat Source Magnitude
Michael T. Kiefer, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; and S. Zhong, J. J. Charney, X. Bian, and W. E. Heilman

4:30 PM
12.3
4:45 PM
12.4
Timeliness of Fire Observations as a Skill Factor for Aerosol Prediction
Edward J. Hyer, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. Camacho, D. A. Peterson, and A. Lambert

5:00 PM
12.5
Analyzing Wildfire Smoke Impacts on Urban Air Quality Using a Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Model
Derek V. Vincent Mallia, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Univ. of Utah, SALT LAKE CITY, UT; and A. K. Kochanski, A. Farguell, K. Kelly, and J. Mandel