Session 6 |
| | Weather Data and Forecasts for Fire Behavior Applications |
| | Organizer: Chris Gibson, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT
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| 8:00 AM | | Session Introduction: Chris Gibson, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT
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| 8:15 AM | 6.1 | Development of a seasonal fire severity forecast for the contiguous United States
John O. Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA; and S. C. Chen, F. M. Fujioka, and R. E. Burgan |
| 8:30 AM | 6.2 | Producing 1-km resolution atmospheric forecasts for a prototype gridded National Fire Danger Rating System
Timothy W. Barker, NOAA/NWS, Missoula, MT |
| 8:45 AM | 6.3 | Verification and Assessment of Automated NFDRS Forecasts Based on Gridded Weather Forecasts and Satellite Derived Fuel Parameters
Larry S. Bradshaw, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and T. W. Barker and R. E. Burgan |
| 9:00 AM | 6.4 | A high resolution fire danger rating system for Hawaii
Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and D. R. Weise and R. E. Burgan |
| 9:15 AM | 6.5 | The Northeast fire danger index system
Lawrence Bach, NOAA/NWS, Albany, NY; and A. Cacciola |
| 9:30 AM | 6.6 | An Index for Assessing the Potential Escape of a Prescribed Burn
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV; and C. Fontana |
| 9:45 AM | 6.7 | FireFamily Plus: Fire Weather and Fire Danger Climatology at your Fingertips
Larry S. Bradshaw, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Stations, Missoula, MT; and S. Brittain |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 6.8 | Model predicted spread rates for the Sydney January 1994 fires
Milton S. Speer, Bureau of Meteorology, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and L. M. Leslie, W. Catchpole, R. Bradstock, and R. Bunker |
| 10:45 AM | | Discussion
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