Session 8 Smoke and Fire Decision Support Tool Development

Wednesday, 14 October 2009: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Ballroom B (Red Lion Inn Kalispell)
Host: Eighth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair:
Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Fire Meteorology, Riverside, CA

Papers:
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
Recorded Presentation

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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
Recorded Presentation

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, Lansing, MI; and X. Bian
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
8.4
The National Fuel Moisture Database (NFMD) and the need for national fuels sampling and data standards
Edward D. Delgado, National Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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