AirFire typically has several projects underway that are funded by grants from the Joint Fire Science Program. These often involve topics that are of particular, immediate value to the fire and smoke management communities. The focus in these projects is to provide scientifically sound, operationally valuable tools and information that allow these user communities to do their jobs more easily and safely. Below you can link to more information on projects involving AirFire staff. Some of these projects are led by scientists outside AirFire, others are led by AirFire with outside cooperators, and some involve only AirFire scientists. The information available for each project will depend on these factors, as well as the nature of the specific project and how long the project has been going. |
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Development of training resources for application of BlueSkyRAINS in Smoke Management and Fire Operations
JFSP Number: 04-4-1-04 (completed project) This project developed teaching and training resources in support of BlueSky smoke modeling system. |
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Quality Assurance of Weather Data and the Probability of Favorable Weather for Prescribed Fire in Alaska
JFSP Number: 04-2-1-71 (completed project) This project is developing the most complete quality assured Alaskan weather station observatory database for improved fire management. |
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Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) - Assessing Values of Air Quality and Visibility at Risk from Wildland Fires
JFSP Number: 98-1-4-14 (completed project) JFSP Number: 03-4-2-05 (completed project) These projects have developed the Ventilation Climate Info System (VCIS), a high resolution web based climatology of ventilation over the US. |
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An Automated System for Evaluating BlueSky Predictions of Smoke Impacts on Community Health and Ecosystems
JFSP Number: 03-1-3-09 (completed project) This project utilizes in-situ smoke monitoring networks for real-time verification and improvement of BS smoke concentration forecasts. |
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Assessing the Value of Mesoscale Models in Predicting Fire Danger
JFSP Number: 01-1-6-07 (completed project) This project examined the utility of meteorological information at multiple scales to fire danger indices. |
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Fourth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology: November 13-15, 2001
JFSP Number: 01-S-02 (completed project) This project provided support for the 4th Fire and Forest Meteorology conference in Reno, NV on Oct 2001. |
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Predicting Lightning Risk
JFSP Number: 01-1-6-08 (completed project) This project created the first algorithm to discriminate between “wet” and “dry” lightning events. |
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BlueSky Rapid Response
JFSP Number: 06-1-1-12 This project, funded under JFSP rapid response initiative, is collecting smoke monitoring data from wildland fire use fires to better calibrate and evaluate BlueSky predictive capability. |
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