| Monday, 24 October 2005 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
Conference Registration |
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| Tuesday, 25 October 2005 |
| 7:30 AM, Tuesday
Registration Continues Through Thursday 27 October |
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| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, Ladyslipper/Orchid
Joint Session 1 Symposium Welcome (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
Chair: Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB Canada
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| 9:00 AM | J1.1 | Keynote Talk: Kerry Anderson
Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 9:10 AM | J1.2 | Keynote Talk: Timothy Brown
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV |
| 9:15 AM | J1.3 | Keynote Talk: Tom Archibald
Tom Archibald, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Peace River, AB, Canada |
| 9:20 AM | J1.4 | Keynote Talk: Cliff Henderson
Cliff Henderson, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 9:40 AM | J1.5 | Keynote Talk: Brian Emmett
Brian Emmett, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
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| 10:00 AM, Tuesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Coffee Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Ladyslipper/Orchid
Joint Session 2 Canadian Wildfire Perspectives (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
Organizer: Dennis Quintilio, IWFC, Edmonton, AB Canada
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| 10:30 AM | J2.1 | The History of Wildfire Detection In Alberta
Tim Klein, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Peace River, AB, Canada |
| 11:00 AM | J2.2 | Yukon 2004 Fire Season Impacts on Communities and Stakeholders
Al Beaver, Yukon Wildland Fire Management, Whitehorse, YT, Canada |
| 11:30 AM | J2.3 | Déjà vu or Trends? A historical look at Fire and Weather in Alberta
Peter Murphy, Univ. of Alberta, St. Albert, AB, Canada |
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| 12:00 PM, Tuesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Exhibit Hours (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 12:00 PM, Tuesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Ladyslipper
Session 1 Impacts of Weather on Wildfire |
Chair: Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD
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| 1:30 PM | 1.1 | Impacts of weather and growing season on the occurrence of fires in Finland  
Heidi Tanskanen, Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and A. Venäläinen |
| 1:45 PM | 1.2 | Lower atmospheric drying, stability, and increased wildfire activity
Graham A. Mills, BMRC, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| 2:00 PM | 1.3 | Precipitation associated with lightning ignited wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV |
| 2:15 PM | 1.4 | Temporal and spatial characteristics of anomalous precipitation regimes on vegetation type and fire regime condition class
Ryan S. Kangas, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown, B. L. Hall, and H. J. Reinbold |
| 2:30 PM | 1.5 | Alaska's exceptional 2004 fire season
Martha Shulski, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and S. Alden, N. K. Larkin, and G. Wendler |
| 2:45 PM | 1.6 | Alaska large forest fires in 2004 and weather—Discussion based on satellite and weather data
Hiroshi Hayasaka, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; and K. Nakau, K. Kushida, M. Fukuda, P. Martyn, and T. DeFries |
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| 3:00 PM, Tuesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Coffee Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 3:30 PM-4:45 PM, Tuesday, Ladyslipper
Session 2 Fire Behavior and Fire Spread |
Chair: Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI
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| 3:30 PM | 2.1 | Sensitivity of a fire behavior model to changes in live fuel moisture
William M. Jolly, USDA, Missoula, MT |
| 3:45 PM | 2.2 | A climatology of the Haines Index for North America derived from NCEP/NCAR reanalysis fields
Julie A. Winkler, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; and B. E. Potter, D. F. Wilhelm, R. P. Shadbolt, X. Bian, and K. Piromsopa |
| 4:00 PM | 2.3 | Space/time characteristics of errors in an integrated weather/fire spread simulation
Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and C. Jones, D. R. Weise, P. E. Dennison, and J. W. Benoit |
| 4:15 PM | 2.4 | Using Ensemble Techniques in Fire Growth Modelling
Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and G. Reuter and M. D. Flannigan |
| 4:30 PM | 2.5 | The Development of a Dynamically Based Fire Spread Weather Forecast Index
Michael L. Kaplan, DRI, Reno, NV; and C. Huang and Y. -. L. Lin |
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| 5:00 PM, Tuesday
Sessions End for the Day |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday
Poster Session 1 Formal Poster Viewing with Icebreaker Reception (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
Chair: Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV
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| | P1.1 | Validation of FARSITE model in Mediterranean area
Bachisio Arca, CNR - IBIMET, Sassari, Italy; and M. Laconi, A. Maccioni, G. Pellizzaro, and M. Salis |
| | P1.2 | Fire growth simulations of the Price Canyon, Thirtymile and Storm King Mountain fires using high resolution wind simulation tools and FARSITE
B. W. Butler, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT; and J. M. Forthofer, R. D. Stratton, M. A. Finney, and L. S. Bradshaw |
| | P1.3 | Computation of the low elevation Haines Index
Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and J. A. Winkler, D. F. Wilhelm, and R. P. Shadbolt |
| | P1.4 | Assessing Model-Generated Predictions of NFDRS Indexes
Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and J. Hoadley and L. S. Bradshaw |
| | P1.5 | Field verification of the Nelson dead fuel moisture model and comparisons with National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) predictions
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson, R. R. Bensch, and R. Jabrzemski |
| | P1.6 | CMAQ-Daysmoke as a Smoke and Air Quality Management Technique: A Case Study of a Prescribed Burning in Georgia
Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and G. Achtemeier and S. Goodrick |
| | P1.7 | Measurements of Ground-Level PM2.5 Concentrations Downwind From Southern Prescribed Burns
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and L. Naeher |
| | P1.8 | On Plume Rise—The Role of Initial Plume Moisture on Subsequent Plume Growth as Simulated by Daysmoke
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| | P1.9 | Predicting Lightning Strikes for the Enhancement of Fire Weather Forecasts
Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD |
| | P1.10 | On the definition of El Nino and associated weather anomalies
Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and D. E. Harrison |
| | P1.11 | Atmospheric teleconnections and wildfires in the southeastern United States
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and D. E. Hanley |
| | P1.12 | Building historical gridded weather data sets for fire program analysis
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| | P1.13 | Estimating missing station weather data using North American Regional Reanalysis
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| | P1.14 | The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS): Its Role within NRCan's National Carbon Accounting and Sustainable Development Framework
Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and E. Banfield, R. Carr, B. de Groot, P. Englefield, M. Gartrell, R. Hall, K. Hirsch, J. Little, J. Pritchard, V. Peters, R. Suddaby, V. Decker, R. Fraser, D. Jacques, R. Landry, D. Raymond, J. van der Sanden, M. D. Flannigan, J. Ji-Zhong, T. Lynham, and W. Kurz |
| | P1.15 | Climate links to escaped prescribed fires in California and Nevada
Crystal A. Kolden, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| | P1.16 | Influence of seasonal weather variations on fuel status for some shrubs typical of Mediterranean Basin
Grazia Pellizzaro, Institute of Biometeorology, Sassari, Italy; and A. Ventura and P. Zara |
| | P1.17 | Vertical Distribution of Fuel in a Chamise Chaparral Stand
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA; and J. Chong and D. Kisor |
| | P1.18 | Assessment of fuel dryness index on mediterranean vegetation
Donatella Spano, Univ. of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and P. Duce, R. L. Snyder, P. Zara, and A. Ventura |
| | P1.19 | Ichnusa fire index: development and preliminary evaluation at regional scale
Costantino Sirca, Univ. of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and D. Spano and P. Duce |
| | P1.20 | The Inter-Comparison of LANL—FIRETEC and NIST—FDS Idealized Grass Fire Simulations
Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and W. Mell |
| | P1.21 | High-Resolution Numerical Model Simulations of Fire Plume Dynamics
Philip Cunningham, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Goodrick |
| | P1.22 | Separating Combustion From Pyrolysis in HIGRAD/FIRETEC
Jonah J. Colman, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. R. Linn |
| | P1.23 | Error analysis of PSU/NCAR MM5 forecasts in southern California
Charles Jones, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and F. Fujioka |
| | P1.24 | The interaction between a wildfire and a sea-breeze front
Deborah E. Hanley, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and P. Cunningham and S. L. Goodrick |
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| 5:00 PM, Tuesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Exhibit Hours (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| Wednesday, 26 October 2005 |
| 8:30 AM, Wednesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Exhibit Hours (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Wednesday, Ladyslipper
Session 3 Fire—Atmosphere Interactions and Coupled Modeling Part 1 |
Chair: Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA
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|  | 3.1 | A Method for Modeling Sub-Grid Combustion in a Large-Scale Wildland Fire CFD Model
Michael M. Clark, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT; and T. H. Fletcher, R. R. Linn, and J. Colman |
| 8:30 AM | 3.1A | Influence of Radiative Heating on Wildfire Behavior—A Sensitivity Study
William S. Smith, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. Linn and J. Winterkamp |
| 8:45 AM | 3.2 | An Evaluation of the FDS and Clark Coupled Wildfire Model
Ruiyu Sun, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. K. Krueger, M. A. Jenkins, W. Mell, and J. J. Charney |
| 9:00 AM | 3.3 | Numerical Simulations of Fires Similar to Those of The International Crown Fire Modeling Experiment
Rodman R. Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. Canfield, J. Winterkamp, P. Cunningham, J. Colman, C. Edminster, and S. L. Goodrick |
| 9:15 AM | 3.4 | Modeling Effects of Atmospheric Stability on Wildfire Behavior
Jesse M. Canfield, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. Linn, P. Cunningham, and S. L. Goodrick |
| 9:30 AM | 3.5 | Coupled Influences of Topography and Atmosphere on Wildland Fire Behavior: Physics-Based Model Explorations
Judith L. Winterkamp, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. R. Linn, W. S. Smith, and J. J. Colman |
| 9:45 AM | 3.6 | A Numerical Solution of Reynolds System of Equations for Description of Forest Fire Initiation
Valeriy Perminov, Kemerovo State Univ., Belovo, Kemerovo, Russia |
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| 10:00 AM, Wednesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Coffee Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Ladyslipper
Session 4 Operational and Near-Operational Fire Weather Forecasting Techniques |
Chair: Rick Ochoa, National Interagency Fire Center, Boise, ID
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| 10:30 AM | 4.1 | The BlueSkyRAINS Smoke Prediction System
Susan M. O'Neill, USDA, Seattle, WA; and S. Ferguson, R. Solomon, J. Hoadley, J. Peterson, N. Larkin, R. Wilson, R. Peterson, and D. Matheny |
| 10:45 AM | 4.2 | Model-Generated Predictions of Dry Lightning Risk—Initial Results
Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. J. McKay, S. A. Ferguson, and P. Werth |
| 11:00 AM | 4.3 | HI-RISE—Hazardous Incident Rapid In-Flight Support Effort: Use of asynoptic upper-air data to improve weather forecasts at wildland fires and other hazardous incidents
Paul G. Witsaman, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX; and J. W. Zeitler, M. C. Oaks, G. P. Murdoch, S. R. Nagle, W. C. Hoffmann, and B. K. Fritz |
| 11:15 AM | 4.4 | Implementation, Verification and Visualization of CANSAC Products
Julide Koracin, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| 11:30 AM | 4.5 | Implementation of Windsat Data From NPOESS into 3DVAR for CANSAC Real-Time MM5 Forecasting
Tesfamichael Ghidey, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. Koracin, T. J. Brown, and M. D. McAtee |
| 11:45 AM | 4.6 | Development of model output statistic (MOS) products for predictive services
Hauss J. Reinbold, DRI, Reno, NV; and B. L. Hall and T. J. Brown |
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| 12:00 PM, Wednesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Lunch Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 1:00 PM, Wednesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Exhibit Hours (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday, Ladyslipper/Orchid
Joint Session 3 Smoke Management and Air Quality (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
Chair: Susan O'Neill, USDA, Seattle, WA
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| 1:30 PM | J3.1 | Estimating the Air Quality Impacts of Forest Fires in Alberta
Alex Schutte, Levelton Consultants Ltd., Richmond, BC, Canada; and C. Walsh and C. Tymstra |
| 1:45 PM | J3.2 | Operational Evaluation of BlueSkyRAINS
Jeanne Hoadley, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and M. Rorig, S. M. O'Neill, and S. Ferguson |
| 2:00 PM | J3.3 | Evaluation of the BlueSkyRAINS Smoke Prediction System
Robert Solomon, USDA, Seattle, WA; and S. Ferguson, S. O'Neill, J. Hoadley, J. Peterson, N. Larkin, R. Wilson, R. Peterson, and D. Matheny |
| 2:15 PM | J3.4 | On Plume Rise—Matching Daysmoke With Briggs Equations for Industrial Stacks
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 2:30 PM | J3.5 | Modelling smoke effects on Lisbon air quality
Ana Isabel Miranda, Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and H. Martins, A. Carvalho, and C. Borrego |
| 2:45 PM | J3.6 | A Local-Scale Modelling System to Simulate Smoke Dispersion
Joana Valente, Univ. of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and A. I. Miranda, A. G. Lopes, C. Borrego, and D. Xavier Viegas |
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| 3:00 PM, Wednesday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Coffee Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, Ladyslipper/Orchid
Joint Session 4 Utilization of weather and climate information for wildfire decision-making (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
Chair: Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA
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| 3:30 PM | J4.1 | Wildland Fire and Droughts: Searching for Practical Solutions
Martin E. Alexander, Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 3:45 PM | J4.2 | Modeling seasonal variation in the total probability of wildfires
Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD |
| 4:00 PM | J4.3 | The use of climate information in prescribed fire planning and implementation
Crystal A. Kolden, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| 4:15 PM | J4.4 | New York state fire climatology
Joseph Kennedy, New York State Forest Rangers, Albany, NY; and B. L. Hall and T. J. Brown |
| 4:30 PM | J4.5 | Utilizing climate information for smoke dispersion planning
Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. M. O'Neill, R. Solomon, M. Johnson, and S. A. Ferguson |
| 4:45 PM | J4.6 | The impact of climate change on area burned In Alberta's Boreal Forest
Cordy Tymstra, Department of Sustainable Resource Development, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. Armitage |
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| 5:00 PM, Wednesday
Sessions End for the Day |
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| 7:30 PM, Wednesday, Ladyslipper/Orchid
Session Evening Banquet (Cash Bar)-Guest Speaker Dave Coutts, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development and Student Awards Presented by Brad Pickering, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| Thursday, 27 October 2005 |
| 8:30 AM, Thursday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Exhibit Hours (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Thursday, Ladyslipper
Session 5 Core Fire Science |
Organizer: Colin C. Hardy, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | The effect of solar insolation on the burning rate of shallow fuel beds
B. W. Butler, USDA, Missoula, MT |
| | 5.2 | An integrated real-time system for prescribed fire management
Robert Kremens, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; and J. Faulring and C. C. Hardy |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2A | Measurements of water vapor and CO2 fluxes produced by a prescribed prairie fire using a micrometeorological flux tower and tethered balloon sounding system
Craig B. Clements, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and B. E. Potter, S. Zhong, G. Aumann, M. D. Jiang, S. Street, and M. R. Patel |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Improved models of forest and wildland-urban-interface fires
Ronald Rehm, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and W. Mell |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Experiments and modeling of fire spread through individual trees
William Mell, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and A. Maranghides and R. Rehm |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | Correlation of mass loss rate and flame height for live fuels
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA; and T. H. Fletcher, S. Mahalingam, X. Zhou, S. Smith, and L. Sun |
| 9:45 AM | 5.6 | Fire danger rating in the United States: an evolution since 1916
Colin C. Hardy, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT |
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| 10:00 AM, Thursday, Crocus/Arnica
Session Coffee Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Ladyslipper
Session 6 Impacts of Climate and Climate Change on Wildfire |
Chair: Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV
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| 10:30 AM | 6.1 | Fire-climate interactions in the Mediterranean climate areas of California and Southern Oregon
Valerie M. L. Trouet, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. H. Taylor, R. F. Smith, and A. M. Carleton |
| 10:45 AM | 6.2 | Spatial Relationships between SST and U.S. Wildfires
Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 11:00 AM | 6.3 | Simulating changes in fire occurrence, behavior, and effects in North America ecosystems under multiple future climate scenarios
James M. Lenihan, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR; and D. Bachelet, R. Drapek, and R. P. Neilson |
| 11:15 AM | 6.4 | Potential forest fire danger over Northern Eurasia: Changes during the 20th century
Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. G. Sherstyukov, V. N. Razuvaev, R. W. Knight, J. G. Enloe, N. S. Stroumentova, P. H. Whitfield, E. Foerland, I. Hanssen-Bauer, H. Tuomenvirta, H. Aleksandersson, A. V. Mescherskaya, and T. R. Karl |
| 11:30 AM | 6.5 | Fire climates of Australia: Past, present and future
Chris Lucas, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic, Australia |
| 11:45 AM | 6.6 | Climate, fire and human extremes—the merging of shaping factors for 21st century land management
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and J. R. McConnell |
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| 12:00 PM, Thursday
Session Lunch Break (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting) |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Ladyslipper
Session 7 Fuels and Fire |
Chair: David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA
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| 1:30 PM | 7.1 | Burning Characteristics of Live California Chaparral and Utah Leaf Samples
Thomas H. Fletcher, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT; and B. M. Pickett, S. G. Smith, and D. R. Weise |
| 1:45 PM | 7.2 | Ignition of Mulch by Firebrands in Wildland/Urban Interface (WUI) Fires
Samuel L. Manzello, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and J. R. Shields, T. G. Cleary, and J. C. Yang |
| 2:00 PM | 7.3 | Evaluation of the Nelson dead fuel moisture model in a forecast environment
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson, and R. Jabrzemski |
| 2:15 PM | 7.4 | Modeling the probability of sustained flaming in Canadian fuel types: predictive value of fire weather index components compared with observations of site weather and fuel moisture conditions
J. L. Beverly, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. M. Wotton |
| 2:30 PM | 7.5 | Stand specific litter moisture content calibrations for the Canadian Fine Fuel Moisture Code
B. M. Wotton, Canadian Forest Service, Sault St. Marie, ON, Canada; and J. L. Beverly |
| 2:45 PM | 7.6 | Remote Sensing Vegetation Recovery after Forest Fires using Energy Balance Algorithm
Junming Wang, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM; and T. W. Sammis, C. A. Meier, L. J. Simmons, D. R. Miller, and D. Bathke |
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| 3:00 PM, Thursday
Session Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Ladyslipper
Session 8 Fire—Atmosphere Interactions and Coupled Modeling Part 2 |
Chair: Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA
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| 3:30 PM | | Paper has been moved to Session 3, Paper number 3.1
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| 3:45 PM | | Paper has been moved to Session 5, Paper Number 5.2
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| 4:00 PM | 8.1 | Applications of Coupled Atmosphere—Fire Modeling: Prototype Demonstration of RealTime Modeling of Fire Behavior
Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 4:15 PM | 8.2 | Experimental Weekly to Seasonal Ensemble Fire Danger Forecasts
J. Roads, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and P. Tripp, H. Juang, J. Wang, S. Chen, and F. Fujioka |
| 4:30 PM | 8.3 | Numerical Simulations of Fires in Grasslands: Roles of Convective and Radiative Heat Transfer
Philip Cunningham, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and R. R. Linn |
| 4:45 PM | 8.4 | A Mechanism for the Formation of Transverse Horizontal Vortices on Wildland Fires
Scott L. Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and P. Cunningham |
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| 5:00 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends |
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