Session 5 Field Studies

Wednesday, 19 October 2011: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Grand Zoso Ballroom Center (Hotel Zoso)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Chair:
Faith Ann Heinsch, U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT

Papers:
8:30 AM
5.1
Observed fire-atmosphere interactions during a low-intensity prescribed fire in a forested environment
Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, Lansing, MI; and X. Bian, J. L. Hom, K. L. Clark, N. Skowronski, S. Zhong, J. J. Charney, M. Gallagher, M. Patterson, M. T. Kiefer, and R. P. Shadbolt
8:45 AM
5.2
Turbulence velocity spectra and cospectra measured during fire front passage
Daisuke Seto, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and C. B. Clements, F. Snively, and W. E. Heilman
9:00 AM
5.3
Weather and Air Quality Observations Before and During a Wildfire on Deep Organic Soils
Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and R. Mickler, C. Krull, and M. Moore
9:15 AM
5.4
Sub-Canopy Smoke Dispersion: Measurements of fire-behavior, fuels, consumption, emissions, plume rise and dispersion near and in a prescribed fire-source
Tara Strand, New Zealand Forest Research Institute Limited, Rotorua, WA, New Zealand; and E. Allwine, F. Alonso Garcia, V. Cruz Chercon, D. Seto, R. Mickler, B. Lamb, R. Solomon, X. Bian, C. B. Clements, H. Thistle, and M. Rorig

9:30 AM
5.5
Fire plume kinematic structure observed using Doppler wind lidar
Allison Charland, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and D. Seto and C. B. Clements
9:45 AM
5.6
The Grass Fires on Slopes Experiment
Craig B. Clements, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and D. Seto and W. E. Heilman
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