BlueSky is a framework for model management. It facilitates the
use of predictive models that simulate the cumulative impacts of smoke
on air quality from forest, agricultural, and range fires.
Import and Export Functionality
How to get information in and out of the framework.
- MM5, ARL, other met models
- SMARTFIRE
- spreadsheets
- some Rx fire systems
To run, BlueSky needs some information about the fires it is modeling. Depending on which modeling steps are being used, this information will vary, but the most common way to run BlueSky is to provide it with weather model data and fire information. BlueSky has been built to handle a number of formats of this data, but prefers simple csv (comma-separated-value) or netcdf formats.
- other models
- CMAQ
- Google Earth
- website images
BlueSky also has the ability to export both data and graphics in a number of formats including S.M.O.K.E.-ready files that can be used with CMAQ and other air quality models, kmz files that can be read into Google Earth, and simple images (gif, jpg) that can be used on websites. All of the output formats are customizable through the BlueSky ini files.
Import / Export Formats
| Weather Model |
Fire Informaion |
Fuel Loading |
Consumption |
Time Rate |
Emissions | Plume Rise |
Trajectories | Disperson | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| import formats |
MM5 ARL WRF* NAM* GFS* NARR* |
csv through web: SMARTFIRE |
csv |
csv |
csv |
csv |
csv |
||
| export formats |
- | csv | csv | csv | csv | csv |
csv S.M.O.K.E.-ready |
csv | netcdf image kmz |
* in development, not fully functional in the framework yet but can be used if you have the proper convert to ARL
csv = comma separated values, a standard ASCII text based format compatible with most spreadsheets, graphics, and other programs
Format Explanations
BlueSky's use of the various formats are explained in a set of pages:
- CSV Formats
- NetCDF
- S.M.O.K.E.-ready
- KMZ
- Output Images
