AQUIPT |
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AQUIPT is a web-based strategic planning tool for anticipating air quality impacts from localized emissions sources. It is designed to answer the question:
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BlueSky |
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BlueSky is a modeling framework designed to predict cumulative impacts of smoke from forest, agriculatural, and range fires. The BlueSky smoke modeling framework combines state of the art emissions, meteorology, and dispersion models to generate the best possible predictions of smoke impacts across the landscape. |
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VCIS |
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With the increasing use of prescribed fire as a way of managing wildland areas in the United States, predicting the potential impacts and assessing risks are becoming more important. Of great concern are the effects of smoke on air quality and visibility. By developing ventilation potential as a spatial climate data base it can be overlain with other elements of risk for a more complete assessment of the impact of prescribed fire in wildland areas of the United States. |
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MM5 Case Study |
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The purpose of this website is to provide access to results of a case study of the 2000 fire season in western Montana and Northern Idaho used to evaluate the MM5 mesoscale model for automation of the National Fire Danger Rating System(NFDRS) forecasts. MM5 meteorological predictions at three resolutions, 36-km, 12-km, and 4-km was used to generate Nationl Fire Danger Rating indexes over a 4 week period during an active fire season. |
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JFSP Projects |
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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. |
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Fieldwork |
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The purpose of this website is to provide information about recent fieldwork AirFire has performed. |
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ENSO: El Niño / La Niña |
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Ed Harrison and Sim Larkin have been working to detail the lifecycles of El Niño and La Niña events since the mid-1990s. This work has resulted in the first description of the statistically significant weather impacts of El Niño and La Niña events, the first description of the robust lifecycles of El Niño, La Niña, and their assymetries, and discussion of the importance of the exact definition of El Niño and La Niña to their usefulness. |
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FireFlux |
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In February 2005, a rare opportunity arose for measuring the atmosphere in the midst of a prescribed prairie burn near the Texas Gulf Coast in the southern United States. This initial effort was sufficiently successful to justify a second, more detailed study of the atmospheric conditions in the midst of a second burn. AirFire was part of a team of Forest Service and university scientists involved in this second study, named FireFlux. The FireFlux project employed a flux tower and a tethered balloon sounding system to measure momentum, water vapor, heat, and CO 2 fluxes as the fire moved across the prairie and under the flux tower. The measurements from this study are helping evaluate coupled computer models of fire-atmosphere interactions, and are providing insight into the energetics and dynamics of the airflow in and around wildland fires. |
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