Session 5 |
| | Improvements to Fire Danger and Fire Behavior Systems I |
| | Chair: Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI
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| 10:15 AM | 5.1 | Determination of equilibrium moisture content for several fine fuels in Hawaii  
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA |
| 10:30 AM | 5.2 | The application of radar-derived precipitation and LAPS gridded analyses to real-time fire weather index maps for the state of Michigan
Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and R. H. Ziel and X. Bian |
| 10:45 AM | 5.3 | Fire behavior and fire danger systems—the evolution continues
Patricia L. Andrews, US Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT |
| 11:00 AM | 5.4 | Assessment of an integrated fire rating index for Sardinia, Italy
Costantino Sirca, Univ. of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and D. Spano and P. Duce |
| 11:15 AM | 5.5 | Validation of fire danger from the North American Regional Reanalysis dataset
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown and W. M. Jolly |
| 11:30 AM | 5.6 | OPERATIONAL FOREST FIRE-GROWTH PREDICTIONS FOR CANADA
Kerry R. Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and P. Englefield and J. Little |