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 |