Joint Session 8 |
| | Smoke Management and Air Quality (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology) |
| | Chairs: Susan M. O'Neill, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; N. K. Larkin, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
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| 1:30 PM | J8.1 | Adaptive Grid Modeling for Predicting the Air Quality Impacts of Biomass Burning  
Alper Unal, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. T. Odman |
| 1:45 PM | J8.2 | COMBINING WILDFIRE EMISSIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY SMOKE EMISSIONS MODEL (CSEM) WITH A REGIONAL-SCALE AIR QUALITY MODEL
Michael G. Barna, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. G. Fox |
| 2:00 PM | J8.3 | A natural fire experiment in central Russia: meteorology, radiative and optical properties of atmosphere and resulting effects on sub-boreal forest plants
Nataly Ye. Chubarova, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; and N. G. Prilepsky, A. R. Riebau, A. W. Shoettle, R. Musselman, N. N. Uliumdzhieva, A. Y. Yurova, B. E. Potter, A. N. Rublev, P. Y. Zhmylev, and E. A. Karpuhina |
| 2:15 PM | J8.4 | Spatial and Temporal Variability of Wildland Fire Emissions over the U.S
Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 2:30 PM | J8.5 | Real time high resolution fire/smoke signature prediction model in coastal chaparral
Joe Rawitzer, Fire Spec Systems, Carmel, CA |
| 2:45 PM | J8.6 | Recent results from PB-Piedmont—a model to simulate smoke on the ground at night
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | J8.7 | The BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework (www.BlueSkyRAINS.org)
Susan M. O'Neill, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. A. Ferguson, J. Peterson, and R. Wilson |
| 3:45 PM | J8.8 | Assessing accuracy of the BlueSky smoke modeling framework during wildfire events
J. Westbrook Adkins, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. M. O'Neill, M. Rorig, S. A. Ferguson, C. M. Berg, and J. L. Hoadley |
| 4:00 PM | J8.9 | On the origins of “Superfog”—a combination of smoke and water vapor that produces zero visibility over roadways
Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| 4:15 PM | J8.10 | Smoke measurements during experimental field fires
Ana Isabel Miranda, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and J. Ferreira, J. Valente, P. Santos, J. H. Amorim, and C. Borrego |
| 4:30 PM | J8.11 | A comparison of real-time particulate monitors for smoke management
Suraj Ahuja, U.S. Forest Service, Willows, CA; and T. Proctor, P. Padgett, and B. Plymale |
| 4:45 PM | J8.12 | Biomass burning of eucalypt savannas and respiratory illness in the Australian monsoon tropics
David M. J. S. Bowman, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Northern Territo, Australia; and F. H. Johnston |