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 |