Session: Formal Poster Viewing with Icebreaker Reception (Joint Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology/Interior West Fire Council Conference)

Tuesday, 25 October 2005: 5:00 PM-7:00 PM

Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology; and the 19th Interior West Fire Council Meeting )

Chair:

Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Division of Atmospheric Sciences/CEFA, Reno, NV

Papers:

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

Handout (229.6 kB)

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

Handout (337.6 kB)

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

Handout (706.0 kB)

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 University, Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson Jr., R. R. Bensch, and R. Jabrzemski

Handout (427.4 kB)

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

Handout (89.6 kB)

P1.10

On the definition of El Nino and associated weather anomalies

Narasimhan 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, CNR-IBIMET, National Research Council, Sassari, Italy; and A. Ventura and P. Zara

Handout (365.8 kB)

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