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 |