| Monday, 12 October 2009 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday, Glacier Room
Registration Begins |
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| Tuesday, 13 October 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Glacier Room
Registration continues through 15 October |
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| 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday, Ballroom B
Session 1 Symposium Welcome and Perspectives |
Panelists: John Cissel, JFSP Program Manager, Boise, ID; Heath Hockenberry, NOAA/NWS, Boise, ID; Kelly Martin, Fire and Aviation Management, Yosemite National Park ; Pete Lahm, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC; Mike Hilbruner, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC; Edward D. Delgado, Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, Utah
Cochairs: Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada
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| 9:00 AM | | Panel Discussion 
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| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Big Sky Ballroom
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Ballroom B
Session 2 Regional Case Studies |
Chair: Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA
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|  | 2.1 | PAPER WITHDRAWN
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| 11:00 AM | 2.2 | A numerical study of smoke transport and dispersion associated with the October 2007 Southern California wildfires
Wei Lu, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and S. Zhong, X. Bian, J. J. Charney, and W. E. Heilman |
| 11:15 AM | 2.3 | Synthetic GOES-R Imagery of Agricultural and Wild Fires
Lewis Grasso, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Sengupta, R. Brummer, and R. DeMaria |
| 11:30 AM | 2.4 | Comparing modeled and observed smoke concentrations for the 2007 Southern and 2008 Northern California wildfires
Tara Strand, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and N. K. Larkin, R. Solomon, D. Sullivan, S. Raffuse, K. Craig, C. Krull, M. Rorig, M. Moore, B. Potter, N. Wheeler, and L. Chinkin |
| 11:45 AM | 2.5 | 2008 forest fires in the northern California, USA 
Hiroshi Hayasaka, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan; and C. N. Skinner |
| | 2.6 | PAPER WITHDRAWN
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Lake McDonald/ Swift Current/ Hanging Gardens
Session 3 Improvements to Fire Danger and Fire Behavior Systems Related to Meteorology |
Chair: William M. Jolly, US Forest Service, Missoula, MT
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | Are some RAWS observations more critical to an analysis than others?
John D. Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and X. Dong |
| 1:45 PM | 3.2 | A grass moisture model for the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
B. M. Wotton, Canadian Forest Service, Sault St. Marie, ON, Canada |
| 2:00 PM | 3.3A | Methods for Evaluating Spatial Seasonal Fire Potential Indices
Cindy Sue Leary, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and P. L. Andrews, W. M. Jolly, and J. M. Graham |
| | 3.3 | Fire weather, atmospheric stability environments, and fire activity in southern Australia
Graham A. Mills, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Melbourne, Vic., Australia |
| 2:15 PM | 3.4 | A comparison of hourly fine fuel moisture code calculations within Canada
Kerry R. Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 2:30 PM | 3.5 | Evaluation of fire danger indices in Sardinia (Italy)
Costantino Sirca, Univ. of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and D. Spano, M. Salis, B. Arca, and P. Duce |
| | 3.6 | Updates to the weather information management system (WIMS)
Larry S. Bradshaw, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and J. Barnes |
| 2:45 PM | 3.6A | Assessing topography and wind alignment for firefighter safety
William M. Jolly, US Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and J. Forthofer and B. W. Butler |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Big Sky Ballroom
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Lake McDonald/ Swift Current/ Hanging Gardens
Session 4A Climate Change Impacts |
Chair: Crystal A. Kolden, DRI, Reno, NV
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| 3:30 PM | 4A.1 | Changes in Fire Season Precipitation in Idaho and Montana from 1982-2006
Ann M. Hadlow, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and C. A. Seielstad |
| 3:45 PM | 4A.2 | Assessing the impact of wind field on fire spread and behavior under climate change scenarios
Bachisio Arca, CNR-IBIMET, National Research Council, Sassari, Italy; and M. Salis, P. Duce, A. Ventura, and D. Spano |
| 4:00 PM | 4A.3 | Evaluating Future Global Wildfire Potential Using the Keetch-Byram Drought Index
Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and J. A. Stanturf and S. L. Goodrick |
| | 4A.4 | Impact of climate change on the simulated global fire regime in an earth system model
Vivek K. Arora, EC, Victoria, BC, Canada; and G. J. Boer |
| 4:15 PM | 4A.4A | Impact of Climate Change on Fire Danger across the Western United States
John T. Abatzoglou, DRI, Reno, NV; and C. A. Kolden and T. J. Brown |
| 4:30 PM | 4A.5 | Climate change impacts on burn severity in Alaska, Part I: Climate-fire relationships
John T. Abatzoglou, DRI, Reno, NV; and C. A. Kolden |
| 4:45 PM | 4A.6 | Climate change impacts on burn severity in Alaska Part II: Implications for fire management
Crystal A. Kolden, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. T. Abatzoglou |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Ballroom B
Session 4B Microscale/Coupled Modeling |
Chair: Craig B. Clements, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA
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| 3:30 PM | 4B.1 | Impacts of fuel-break structure on wind-flows and fire propagation simulated with FIRETEC
François Pimont, INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France; and J. L. Dupuy, R. Linn, and S. Dupont |
| 3:45 PM | 4B.2 | Investigating causes of large scale fire whirls using numerical simulation
Jason M. Forthofer, USDA, Missoula, MT; and R. R. Linn, J. A. Sauer, and B. W. Butler |
| 4:00 PM | 4B.3 | Development and validation of an operational numerical model for the simulation of the aerial drop of firefighting products
Jorge Humberto Amorim, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and C. Borrego and A. I. Miranda |
| 4:15 PM | 4B.4 | Simulating diurnally driven slope winds with WindNinja
Jason M. Forthofer, USDA, Missoula, MT; and K. S. Shannon and B. W. Butler |
| 4:30 PM | 4B.5 | Flow over a simple hill and its impact on wind speed, variability, and turbulence
Adam Kochanski, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. A. Jenkins and S. K. Krueger |
| 4:45 PM | 4B.6 | Simulation of international crown fire modeling experiments using FIRETEC
Rodman R. Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and K. Anderson, A. Brooks, J. Winterkamp, and J. Sauer |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday, Big Sky Ballroom
Poster Session 1 Formal Poster Reviewing with Icebreaker Reception |
Chair: Edward D. Delgado, Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, Utah
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| | P1.1 | Summer daytime down drainage winds in the Salmon River drainage
Charles F. Redman, NOAA/NWS, Boise, ID |
| | P1.2 | Expected impacts of climate change on fuel status in Mediterranean shrublands
Grazia Pellizzaro, CNR-IBIMET, National Research Council, Sassari, Italy; and A. Ventura, B. Arca, A. Arca, V. Bacciu, and P. Duce |
| | P1.3 | The National FCAMMS Experimental Predictions of Fire Weather and Smoke
Robert Solomon, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and T. J. Brown, N. K. Larkin, B. Potter, D. Podnar, and H. J. Reinbold |
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| | P1.5 | Implications of using percentiles to define fire danger levels
Faith Ann Heinsch, U.S. Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and P. L. Andrews and L. Kurth |
| | P1.6 | Assessing nationwide hourly wildfire risk in Italy using Limited Area Model forecasts and meteorological observations: the role of live fuels moisture dynamics
Francesco Gaetani, CIMA Research Foundation, Savona, Italy; and M. Cannac and M. D'andrea |
| | P1.7 | Mapping, analyzing and delivering spatio-temporal fire potential products using Open Geospatial Consortium standards
Alexander Petkov, USDA, Missoula, MT; and W. M. Jolly |
| | P1.8 | Fireflux experiments in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Kenneth L. Clark, USDA, New Lisbon, NJ; and J. Hom, N. Skowronski, and W. E. Heilman |
| | P1.9 | Assessment of Fire Severity in a Mediterranean Area using FlamMap Simulator
Michele Salis, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and B. Arca, V. Bacciu, P. Duce, and D. Spano |
| | P1.10 | Predicting Smoke and Emissions from Prescribed Fires on Deep Organic Soils---Preliminary Results
Candace Krull, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and M. Rorig, R. Mickler, and M. Moore |
| | P1.11 | A spatial and predictive National Fire Danger Rating System for New Jersey
John L. Hom, USDA Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA; and W. E. Heilman, X. Bian, K. Mccullough, K. L. Clark, N. Skowronski, J. Cole, S. Van Tuyl, M. Gallagher, A. Kornbluh, and J. J. Charney |
| | P1.12 | Evaluation of a new fire growth measure for research analyses
Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and T. Strand and N. Larkin |
| | P1.13 | Seeking a physics-based algorithm for lightning prediction
Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and R. Solomon |
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| | P1.15 | Assessment of Smoke Emission and Carbon Estimates from Mediterranean Maquis Fire Events
Valentina Bacciu, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy; and M. Salis, D. Spano, B. Arca, G. Pellizzaro, and P. Duce |
| | P1.16 | Observed PM2.5 smoke data from wildfires (Summers 2005-2008)
Candace Krull, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and N. Larkin, T. Strand, M. Rorig, and M. Moore |
| | P1.17 | Modeling fire severity in California, USA
Alisa R. Keyser, UC Merced, Merced, CA; and A. Westerling |
| | P1.18 | Analysis of the ability of fire weather to assess large-scale extreme fire events in Siberia in preparation for future fire weather prediction
Amber Soja, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse, D. Westberg, D. J. McRae, J. Z. Jin, N. Tchebakova, and E. Parfenova |
| | P1.19 | An overview of atmospheric measurements made during the IS4FIRES experiment at Hyytiälä, Finland
Craig B. Clements, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and J. Kukkonen, G. de Leeuw, A. Virkkula, J. Levula, D. M. Schultz, and M. Kulmala |
| | P1.20 | OK-FIRE: A weather-based decision support system for wildland fire management in Oklahoma
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and T. G. Bidwell, S. Blackburn, R. Jabrzemski, and J. M. Wolfinbarger |
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| | P1.22 | Common factors associated with large scale fire whirls
Jason M. Forthofer, USDA, Missoula, MT; and B. W. Butler |
| | P1.23 | Managing smoke related visibility problems in military airspace
Scott Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| | P1.24 | Results from Daysmoke for weak smoke plumes
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and Y. Liu, S. Goodrick, L. Naeher, and M. T. Odman |
| | | P1.25 moved. New paper number 5B.1A
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| | P1.26 | Operational Products at the Program for Climate, Ecosystem and Fire Applications (CEFA)
Hauss J. Reinbold, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| | P1.27 | Sensitivity Analyses of Ignition Area and Fire-Atmosphere Dynamics using WRF-FIRE
Kara Yedinak, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and B. Lamb and J. L. Coen |
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| Wednesday, 14 October 2009 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Lake McDonald/ Swift Current/ Hanging Gardens
Session 5A Smoke from Wildland Fires I |
Chair: Tara Strand, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA
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| 8:30 AM | 5A.1 | The Smoke and Emissions Model Intercomparison Project: an invitation and initial results
Narasimhan Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and N. Wheeler, T. Strand, S. Raffuse, K. Craig, R. Solomon, D. Sullivan, and L. Chinkin |
| 8:45 AM | 5A.2 | Real time forecast of tropospheric ozone and smoke aerosol produced from vegetation fires emissions over South America
Saulo R. Freitas, Centro de Previsao de Tempo e Estudos Climaticos / INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and K. Longo, L. F. Rodrigues, M. Pirre, V. Marecal, M. Alonso, R. Mello, and R. Stockler |
| 9:00 AM | 5A.3 | Validation of modeled smoke plume injection heights using satellite data
Sean Raffuse, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and K. Wade, J. Stone, D. Sullivan, N. Larkin, S. Tara, and R. Solomon |
| 9:15 AM | 5A.4 | Forest fire impact on air quality: the Lancon-de-Provence 2005 case
Susanna Strada, CNRS / University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France; and C. Mari, J. B. Fillipi, and F. Bosseur |
| 9:30 AM | 5A.5 | Recent milestones and ongoing development of the BlueSky Modeling Framework
Narasimhan Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and T. Strand, S. Raffuse, R. Solomon, D. Sullivan, D. Pryden, K. Craig, L. Chinkin, and N. Wheeler |
| 9:45 AM | 5A.6 | Inter-comparison of Satellite- and Ground-based Area Burned Data for Use in Biomass Emission Estimates for the Continental United States
Amber Soja, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and J. A. Al-Saadi, C. Wiedinmyer, B. Pierce, S. Raffuse, X. Zhang, J. McCarty, L. Giglio, D. Randall, T. Moore, S. Kondragunta, and J. Szykman |
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| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Ballroom B
Session 5B Microscale Modeling |
Chair: Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA
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| 8:30 AM | 5B.1A | What Rabbit Rules tells us about the Esperanza Fire
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 8:45 AM | 5B.2 | Numerical simulation of the interaction between two fire fronts in the context of suppression fire operations
Dominique Morvan, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France |
| 9:00 AM | 5B.3 | Modeling fire whirl signatures associated with a wind shift
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 9:15 AM | 5B.4 | Assessment of the plume theory predictions of crown scorch using transport models
Jean Luc Dupuy, INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France; and V. Konovalov, F. Pimont, D. Morvan, and R. R. Linn |
| 9:30 AM | 5B.5 | Dynamics of dry convection above wildland fires: sensitivity to fireline details
Michael T. Kiefer, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and M. D. Parker and J. J. Charney |
| | 5B.6 | A cellular automaton model of fire-atmosphere interactions
Scott Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 9:45 AM | 5B.6A | Comparison of fire spread simulations generated from different weather data inputs
Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and D. R. Weise and C. Jones |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday, Big Sky Ballroom
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom B
Session 6 Impacts of Weather and Climate on Wildfire |
Chair: Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI
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| 10:30 AM | 6.1 | Meteorological evolution of fire threat days over the Northeast U.S
Joseph Pollina, Stony Brook University/SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and J. J. Charney |
| 10:45 AM | 6.2 | The climate variability of the Haines Index over the United States
Sharon Zhong, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and W. Lu, J. J. Charney, X. Bian, and W. E. Heilman |
| 11:00 AM | 6.3 | Relationships between fire growth and available energy
Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA |
| 11:15 AM | 6.4 | A mesoscale meteorological and fire danger analysis of the April 9, 2009 severe wildfire outbreaks in Oklahoma
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK |
| 11:30 AM | 6.5 | Inclusion of wildfire impacts on medium range forecasts of weather and air quality in the FIM (Flow-following finite volume Icosahedral Model) Global Model
Georg A. Grell, NOAA ESRL, and CIRES, Boulder, CO; and S. Freitas, S. G. Benjamin, R. Bleck, J. Lee, J. M. Brown, T. Henderson, and S. E. Peckham |
| 11:45 AM | 6.6 | Climate and fire for fuels management -- Episode 1: The invisible climate signal
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and N. Nauslar |
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| 12:00 PM-1:45 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom A
Keynote Session 1 Luncheon Speaker |
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| 1:45 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom B
Session 7 Coupled Model Development |
Chair: Rodman R. Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM
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| | 7.1 | Influence of topography on firebrand transport
Eunmo Koo, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. Linn |
| 1:45 PM | 7.2 | Impacts of Fire/Atmosphere Coupling and Boundary–Layer Turbulence on Firebrand Propagation
Mary Ann Jenkins, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. Bhutia and R. Sun |
| 2:00 PM | 7.3 | Numerical experiments using MesoNH/ForeFire coupled atmospheric-fire model
J.B. Filippi, CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Corte, Corsica, France; and F. Bosseur, C. Mari, and S. Strada |
| 2:15 PM | 7.4 | Influence of coupled topographic/atmospheric effects on the effectiveness of fuel treatments in complex topography
Judith L. Winterkamp, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. R. Linn and J. A. Sauer |
| 2:30 PM | 7.5 | Higrad/Firetec, Multiple Fuel Types: Approach, Implementation, and Idealized Scenarios
Jeremy A. Sauer, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. Linn |
| 2:45 PM | 7.6 | Critical roles of three-dimensional atmosphere/fire coupling on wildfire behavior
Rodman Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. M. Canfield and P. Cunningham |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday, Big Sky Ballroom
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom B
Session 8 Smoke and Fire Decision Support Tool Development |
Chair: Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA
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| 3:30 PM | 8.1 | The fire behaviour knowledge base (FBKB)
Rob McAlpine, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Sault Ste Marie, ON, Canada; and B. M. Wotton |
| 3:45 PM | 8.2 | Estimating contributions of wildland and prescribed fires to air quality in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California
Haiganoush K. Preisler, USDA, Albany, CA; and S. Zhong, T. J. Brown, and A. Bytnerowicz |
| 4:00 PM | 8.3 | Climatological analysis of turbulent kinetic energy as a fire-weather index using the North American regional reanalysis dataset
Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and X. Bian |
| 4:15 PM | 8.4 | The National Fuel Moisture Database (NFMD) and the need for national fuels sampling and data standards
Edward D. Delgado, Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 4:30 PM | 8.5 | Estimated Smoldering Potential (ESP): a decison support tool for prescribed fire on organic soils in North Carolina
James J. Reardon, USDA Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT; and G. M. Curcio |
| 4:45 PM | 8.6 | WRF/Chem forecasting of smoke from Alaska wildfires
Martin Stuefer, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska , Fairbanks, AK; and G. A. Grell, S. R. Freitas, G. Newby, and A. Kulchitsky |
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| Thursday, 15 October 2009 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday, Ballroom B
Session 9 Mesoscale Modeling |
Chair: Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB Canada
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| 8:30 AM | 9.1 | Meso-scale spectral model simulations over the San Jacinto Mountain region
Shyh-Chin Chen, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and F. Fujioka, J. Benoit, and H. M. Juang |
| 8:45 AM | 9.2 | Further Oklahoma field evaluations of PB-Piedmont, a mesoscale model for nighttime smoke dispersion
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and G. L. Achtemeier |
| 9:00 AM | 9.3 | Progress made towards including wildfires in real-time cloud resolving forecasts at NOAA/ESRL and examining its impact upon weather and air quality
Steven E. Peckham, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Grell, T. G. Smirnova, S. G. Benjamin, S. A. McKeen, M. Stuefer, S. R. Freitas, and K. Longo |
| 9:15 AM | 9.4 | Verification of short-range ensembles for fire threat days over the Northeast U.S
Brian A. Colle, Stony Brook University / SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and J. Pollina and J. J. Charney |
| 9:30 AM | 9.5 | The impact of mesoscale PBL parameterizations on the evolution of mixed-layer processes important for fire weather
Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and D. Keyser |
| 9:45 AM | 9.6 | Impact of smoke from the ALASKA 2004 wildfires on radiation and cloud microphysics using WRF-Chem
Georg A. Grell, NOAA ESRL, and CIRES, Boulder, CO; and S. Freitas, M. Steufer, K. Longo, A. Kutchinsky, and S. E. Peckham |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday, Big Sky Ballroom
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Ballroom B
Session 10 Operational Forecasting (Short to Long Term) of Fire Weather for Wild, Prescribed, and Fire Use Fires |
Chair: Scott Strenfel, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
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| 10:30 AM | 10.1 | A mountain wind model for assisting fire management
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 10:45 AM | 10.2 | The Method of Forest Fires Recognition by Using Doppler Weather Radar
Kehui Huang, Wenzhou Meteorological Bureau, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang, China; and J. Zhong, J. Zhu, X. Zhang, F. Zhao, H. Xie, F. Gu, B. Zhou, and M. Wu |
| 11:00 AM | 10.3 | Seven day fire danger forecasts from the National Digital Forecast Database
William M. Jolly, US Forest Service, Missoula, MT |
| 11:15 AM | 10.4 | Update on Model-Generated Predictions of Dry Thunderstorm Risk
Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA |
| 11:30 AM | 10.5 | Probabilistic lightning forecasts and fuel dryness level forecasts in the Graphical Forecast Editor: Increased resolution and expanded distribution for 2009
Chris V. Gibson, NOAA/NWSFO, Missoula, MT; and P. D. Bothwell, S. Sharples, E. D. Delgado, and R. Lamoni |
| 11:45 AM | 10.6 | A Forecast Procedure for Dry Lightning Busts
Nick Nauslar, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown and J. Wallman |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Thursday, Lake McDonald/ Swift Current/ Hanging Gardens
Session 11A Smoke from Wildland Fires II |
Chair: Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA
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| 1:30 PM | 11A.1 | Smoke Plume Rise Measurements with a Ceilometer
Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and S. Goodrick and G. Achtemeier |
| 1:45 PM | 11A.2 | Including the environmental wind effects on smoke plume rise of vegetation fires in 1D cloud models
Saulo R. Freitas, Centro de Previsao de Tempo e Estudos Climaticos / INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and K. Longo, J. Trentmann, and D. Latham |
| 2:00 PM | 11A.3 | Monitoring of firefighters exposure to smoke during fire experiments and wildfires
Ana Isabel Miranda, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and V. Martins, P. Cascão, J. H. Amorim, J. Valente, R. Tavares, C. Borrego, O. Tchepel, A. J. Ferreira, C. R. Cordeiro, D. X. Viegas, L. M. Ribeiro, and L. P. Pita |
| | 11A.4 | Impact of 2007 wildfires on air quality in Georgia
Scott Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 2:15 PM | 11A.4A | The Oklahoma Dispersion Model: Use of the Gaussian plume model as an operational smoke management tool
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and R. Jabrzemski |
| 2:30 PM | 11A.5 | The meteorological and fire extremes of California 2008
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada; and J. T. Abatzoglou |
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| 1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Thursday, Ballroom B
Session 11B Field Studies of Fire-atmosphere Interactions |
Chair: Sharon Zhong, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
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| 1:30 PM | 11B.1 | Observed Water Vapor Enhancement in Smoke Plumes
Caroline Kiefer, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and C. Clements, S. Strenfel, and B. Potter |
| 1:45 PM | 11B.2 | Fire Whirl Formation During a Valley Wind Reversal
Daisuke Seto, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and C. Clements, S. Strenfel, W. E. Heilman, and X. Bian |
| 2:00 PM | 11B.3 | The Unknown Story of Pyrocumulonimbus
Michael Fromm, NRL, Washington, DC; and D. T. Lindsey and R. Servranckx |
| 2:15 PM | 11B.4 | Use of a Mini-UAV Platform for In situ Monitoring of Fire Plumes
Craig B. Clements, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and C. Kiefer and B. Potter |
| 2:30 PM | 11B.5 | Field Measurements of PM2.5 and Carbon Emissions from Prescribed Fires
Scott Strenfel, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and C. Clements, C. Kiefer, and J. K. Hiers |
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| 2:45 PM-3:15 PM, Thursday, Big Sky Ballroom
Coffee Break |
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| 3:15 PM-4:45 PM, Thursday, Ballroom B
Session 1 Workshop: Fire Meteorology Research Roundtable |
Presider: Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV
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| 4:45 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Ballroom B
Session 12 Symposium Closing Remarks |
Cochairs: Brian Potter, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada
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