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 |