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 |