This page describes the effort behind the BlueSky Playground web tool.  The tool itself is located at http://playground.airfire.org.   The current version of the tool is 2.0 and a beta version of the tool is live.  Click here for a change log of modifications made to the Playground. Please report any bugs, issues, and suggestions to comments@airfire.org.

Acknowledgments

BlueSky Playground would not be possible with the generous assistance and involvement of many people.  We particularly wish to thank the model and data developers who have created the great fire information, fuels information, consumption models, emissions factors, meteorological forecasts, and dispersion models used within Playground.

Fuels Information Datasets

FCCS – Fuels Characteristic Classification System, U.S. Forest Service FERA Team, esp. Dr. Don McKenzie

LANDFIRE – U.S. Forest Service Missoula Fire Lab

CONSUMPTION MOdels

CONSUME – U.S. Forest Service FERA Team, esp. Drs. Roger Ottmar, Susan Prichart, and Clint Wright also many thanks to MTRI and Prof. Nancy French.

EMISSIONS FACTORS / MODELS

FEPS – U.S. Forest Service FERA Team, esp. Dr. Sam Sandberg

DISPERSION MODELS

HYSPLIT – NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, esp. Dr. Roland Draxlar

VSMOKE-GIS – U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station, esp. Dr. Scott Goodrick

Meteorological Forecasts

National 12-km Forecast – from the National Weather Service NAM forecast model

PNW 4-km Forecast – from the Northwest Regional Modeling Consortium, lead Prof. Cliff Mass, University of Washington

California / Nevada 2-km Forecast – from the California / Nevada Smoke and Air Consortium (CANSAC), led by Prof. Tim Brown, Desert Research Institute

Development Team

Project Lead and Original Concept:   Sim Larkin, U.S. Forest Service AirFire Team
Development Work:  Sonoma Technology, Inc.
Development Project Manager:   Sean Raffuse, STI
Development Team (STI): Thom Dedecko, John Stilley, Ken Craig, Alan Healy, Daniel Pryden

Funding

Joint Fire Science Program
National Fire Plan
U.S. Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management
U.S. Forest Service Wildfire RD&A