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BlueSky, a National Fire Plan product, provides real-time predictions of surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities to aid land managers in burn/no-burn decisions. One critical component of BlueSky that remains to be addressed, and that directly supports JFSP AFP 2003-1-Task3, is the development of an automated verification system to evaluate predicted impacts from smoke on communities and ecosystems. A verification system is necessary because land managers need to evaluate their burn decisions against potential National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) exceedances, which requires a clear understanding of the accuracy of the predicted particulate matter (PM) concentration fields. We are proposing to develop this as a real-time tool to allow rapid verification and understanding of smoke dispersion models under all burn conditions.
Cataloging Information
- air quality
- BlueSky Modeling Framework
- fire management
- JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
- NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards
- smoke concentration
- smoke impacts
- smoke modeling
- 03-1-3-09