Session 2 Operational Forecasting

Tuesday, 18 October 2011: 10:15 AM-12:00 PM
Grand Zoso Ballroom Center (Hotel Zoso)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair:
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering, Stillwater, OK

Papers:
10:15 AM
2.1
A Demonstration of Potential of GOES-R to Incident Meteorologists: Future Use of Satellites for Weather Support to Firefighters
Peter Roohr, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Stewart, S. Schranz, L. Grasso, B. Reed, and B. Sjoberg
10:30 AM
2.2
Preliminary meteorological analyses of the 2011 ‘Texas Firestorms'
T. Todd Lindley, NOAA/NWSFO, Lubbock, TX; and G. D. Skwira, G. P. Murdoch, and J. L. Guyer
10:45 AM
2.3
11:00 AM
2.4
Uncertainty in Model-Generated Fire Weather Values: How Does Model Variability Influence the Reliability of Dry Thunderstorm Risk and Ignition Potential Predictions?
Stacy Drury, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and M. Rorig, K. Craig, N. Wheeler, S. Strenfel, and P. D. Bothwell

11:30 AM
2.6A
The use of analog guidance in forecasting Southern Plains wildfire outbreaks
Jeffrey D. Vitale, NOAA/NWSFO, Lubbock, TX; and T. T. Lindley, C. M. Gravelle, and C. E. Graves
12:00 PM
2.7
WRF forecasts of critical fire weather conditions in the San Francisco Bay Area
Rie Onodera, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and K. Clifford, S. Chiao, and C. B. Clements
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