AirFire Projects

list of projects by funding agency

this page in progress.

Current Projects

BlueSky Framework:

• The BlueSky modeling framework
  National Fire Plan, USFS, JFSP, NASA, and EPA all have funded work, PIs: Larkin, Strand, Solomon, Sullivan (STI)
  

BlueSky-related:

• Game-playing smoke applications tool and Bluesky service-oriented-architecture
  JFSP project, PI: Larkin
  
• Enhancements to the BlueSkyRAINS Emissions Assessment and Air Quality Prediction System
  NASA ROSES project, PIs: Sullivan (STI) and Larkin
• BlueSky Rapid Response Observations
  JFSP project, PI: Larkin

Fire Weather Projects

• Forecasting Integrating Lightning and Fuels Ignition Potentials

       JFSP project; PI: Rorig

Field Projects

• Predicting Prescribed and Wildland Fire Smoke, Emissions, and Fire Characteristics in Deep Organic Soils

 JFSP project, PI: Mickler (Alion Science and Technology); Co-PIs: Rorig and Geron (EPA)

SEMIP:

• Smoke and Emissions Modeling Intercomparison Project (SEMIP)
  JFSP project, PIs: Larkin and Wheeler (STI)

Climate:

• El Niño and La Niña:  Lifecycles and Impacts

  PIs: Harrison (NOAA) and Larkin
  

Completed Projects

• Rapid Response Field Observations to Calibrate the BlueSky Smoke Prediction Framework
  JFSP project
• Uncertainties in the Use of Fuel Consumption Models, Fuel Loading Maps, and Fire Reporting Systems
  JFSP project
• Ventilation Climate Information System
  JFSP project
• Air Quality Impacts Planning Tool
  USDA CSREES project