Session 2 |
| Predictive Services and Operational Forecasting |
| Chair: Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA
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| 8:00 AM | 2.1 | Predictive Services: A New Tool for Proactive Wildland Fire Management  Richard Ochoa, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID |
| 8:15 AM | 2.2 | ROMAN—Realtime Observation Monitoring and Analysis Network  Edward Delgado, Eastern Great Basin Coordination Center, Salt Lake City, UT; and T. Mathewson and J. Horel |
| 8:30 AM | 2.3 | Further Applications of ROMAN to Fire Weather  John Horel, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Splitt, J. Pechmann, and B. Olsen |
| 8:45 AM | 2.4 | High resolution diagnostics and short term prognostics in support of fire weather forecast operations at NWS Melbourne, FL Peter F. Blottman, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and J. C. Pendergrast, S. M. Spratt, and D. W. Sharp |
| 9:00 AM | 2.5 | FX-Net, An Expandable Fire Weather Workstation  Sher W. Schranz, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Madine |
| 9:15 AM | 2.6 | FARSITE Weather Streams from the NWS IFPS System  Chris Gibson, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. Gorski |
| 9:30 AM | 2.7 | Using short range ensemble model data in national fire weather outlooks  Sarah J. Taylor, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and D. R. Bright, G. Carbin, P. Bothwell, and R. Naden |
| 9:45 AM | 2.8 | New methods for providing high-resolution weather information to wildfire managers  Daran L. Rife, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. T. Warner, Y. Liu, and J. Coen |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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