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Host Agency:
  • US Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, AirFire Team
Publication Date: Unknown

BlueSky is a modeling framework. BlueSky modularly links a variety of independent models of fire information, fuel loading, fire consumption, fire emissions, and smoke dispersion. At each modeling step, BlueSky has several different specific models from which to choose. BlueSky is not a model per se because many different modeling pathways are possible within BlueSky.

BlueSky connects models together and makes them easy to run in combination. Therefore BlueSky can enable:

  • the lookup of fuels information from fuel maps
  • the calculation of total and hourly fire consumption based on fuel loadings and weather information
  • the calculation of speciated emissions (such as CO2 or PM2.5) from a fire
  • the calculation of vertical plume profiles produced by a fire
  • the calculation of likely trajectories of smoke parcels given off by a fire
  • the calculation of downstream smoke concentrations.
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Topics:
Emissions and Smoke    Fire Effects    Fuels    Mapping    Models    Weather
Regions:
Alaska    California    Eastern    Great Basin    Hawaii    Northern Rockies    Northwest    Rocky Mountain    Southern    Southwest    National
Keywords:
  • CO2 emissions
  • consumption
  • fire information
  • fuel loading
  • PM2.5 emissions
  • smoke concentration
  • smoke dispersion
  • smoke trajectory
  • vertical plume profiles
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Record Maintained By: FRAMES Staff (https://www.frames.gov/contact)
FRAMES Record Number: 893