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 |