Session: Smoke from Wildland Fires II (Eighth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology (12-15 October 2009))

Thursday, 15 October 2009: 1:30 PM-2:45 PM

Lake McDonald/ Swift Current/ Hanging Gardens (Red Lion Inn Kalispell)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Chair:

Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Athens, GA

Papers:

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.9 MB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.4 MB)