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Fire Season 2016: Expectations, Predictions, and Cutting Edge Research and Technology

Rick Thoman, Rick Lader, and Nicole Molders presented at the IARC Research Salon Series, May 19, 2016. Rick Thoman, Climate Science and Services Manager, NWS Alaska Region: Seasonal scale forecasting of the atmospheric drivers important to wildfire (0-15:50); Rick Lader, PhD…
Person: Thoman, Lader, Mölders
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate models, fire weather, fire weather forecast, dynamic modelling, extreme fire, area burned, lightning, CFFDRS - Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System, BUI - CFFDRS Buildup Index, WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting, UAV - unmanned aerial vehicles, smoke forecasting