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 |