Session 3 Smoke Management and Air Quality

Monday, 10 January 2000: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Host: Third Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
Organizer:
Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA

Papers:
3:30 PM
3.1
Definition and use of interpolated weather parameters for operational estimation and prediction of atmospheric stability
Richard Ammons, Idaho/Montana Smoke Management, Missoula, MT; and H. Thistle, P. Thornton, and S. Running

3:45 PM
3.2
Climatology of Biomass Smoke in Wildland Areas of the United States
Sue A. Ferguson, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA

4:00 PM
3.3
Airflow and diffusion modeling for forested and urbanized areas
Ronald M. Cionco, US Army Research Lab., White Sands Missile Range, NM

4:15 PM
3.4
Development of a satellite-based fire and smoke analysis in NOAA/NESDIS
John Paquette, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and T. Renkevens and M. Ruminski

4:30 PM
3.5
Effect of Pollution from Central American Fires on Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in the Spring of 1998
Natalie D. Murray, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. E. Orville and G. R. Huffines

4:45 PM
3.0a
Session Introduction: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Services, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA

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