Wildland Fire Decision Support System air quality tools

The Wildland Fire Decision Support System Air Quality (WFDSS-AQ) tools are designed to help land and fire managers access smoke and emissions information in order to better incorporate smoke effects into the decision making process. Over the past two years a number of tools have been added and redesigned for inclusion in the portal including fire weather and ventilation forecasts, trajectory and dispersion modeling, current air quality conditions monitoring, and climatological data on ventilation conditions, wind speed and direction, and transport patterns. Increased training and help desk functionalities have helped make these tools more accessible to managers, and further development work is ongoing to help create enhanced customized and tailored outputs. Significant in this development is the creation of a text-based automated smoke forecast report designed to make the information easily understandable by the non-expert.