Session 9 Mesoscale Modeling

Thursday, 15 October 2009: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Ballroom B (Red Lion Inn Kalispell)
Host: Eighth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair:
Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, AB

Papers:
8:30 AM
9.1
Meso-scale spectral model simulations over the San Jacinto Mountain region
Shyh-Chin Chen, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and F. Fujioka, J. Benoit, and H. M. Juang
8:45 AM
9.2
Further Oklahoma field evaluations of PB-Piedmont, a mesoscale model for nighttime smoke dispersion
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and G. L. Achtemeier
9:00 AM
9.3
Progress made towards including wildfires in real-time cloud resolving forecasts at NOAA/ESRL and examining its impact upon weather and air quality
Steven E. Peckham, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Grell, T. G. Smirnova, S. G. Benjamin, S. A. McKeen, M. Stuefer, S. R. Freitas, and K. Longo

9:15 AM
9.4
Verification of short-range ensembles for fire threat days over the Northeast U.S
Brian A. Colle, Stony Brook University / SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and J. Pollina and J. J. Charney
9:45 AM
9.6
Impact of smoke from the ALASKA 2004 wildfires on radiation and cloud microphysics using WRF-Chem
Georg A. Grell, NOAA ESRL, and CIRES, Boulder, CO; and S. Freitas, M. Steufer, K. Longo, A. Kutchinsky, and S. E. Peckham

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