EP31B:
Recent Advances in Fire Modeling I


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Session ID#: 61829

Session Description:
Wildfires are an important part of the ecosystem and interact with their environment on a range of spatial and temporal scales. Consequently, a range of models exist, aimed at understanding different aspects of fire, from empirical models of 1D-2D fire spread to computationally expensive, physics-based research models of 3D fire-atmosphere interactions. Each of these models fills a niche, addressing fire on space and time scales from local/instantaneous to global/century. Likewise, applications span the range from operational support on a wildfire to wildfire modules within Earth System Models.

We aim to bring together fire modelers from a variety of backgrounds to exchange knowledge and ideas, and share recent model developments and results of fire modeling studies across all spatial and temporal scales. We encourage abstracts on modeling innovations from empirical to CFD models that aim to enhance our understanding of fire behavior now (fire-ecosystem-topography interactions) and in the future (fire-climate interactions).
Primary Convener:  Alexandra K Jonko, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Kara Yedinak, University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forestry Science, Seattle, United States, Chad M Hoffman, Colorado State University, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Program, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Rodman Linn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alexandra K Jonko, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Chairs:  Alexandra K Jonko, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Kara Yedinak, University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forestry Science, Seattle, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alexandra K Jonko, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3390 Wildland fire model [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Using process-based fire models to advance ecological knowledge beyond fire effects (Invited) (445387)
Carolyn H Sieg, US Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Rodman Linn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Chad M Hoffman, Colorado State University, Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Program, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Francois Pimont, INRAE, URFM, Avignon, France, William Mell, US Forest Service Seattle, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA, United States and Russell Parsons, US Forest Service Missoula, Missoula, United States
Effects of stochasticity on rate of spread and fire front evolution statistics (444421)
Simone Zen1, Eric Victor Mueller2, Rory M Hadden3 and Paolo Perona1, (1)The University of Edinburgh, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, School of Engineering, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (2)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (3)University of Edinburgh, School of Engineering, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Description and evaluation of the Colorado Fire Prediction system (CO-FPS) (356685)
Pedro Angel Jimenez1, Barbara Brown2, Branko Kosovic3, Jim Cowie2, Domingo Munoz-Esparza4, Amanda Anderson2, Bill Petzke2, Jennifer Boehnert4, Kevin Michael Sampson5, William Paul Mahoney III2 and Jason C. Knievel6, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc., Boulder, United States, (6)NCAR, Boulder, United States
Exploring the Vertical Distribution of Wildland Fire Smoke in CMAQ (409706)
Joseph L Wilkins, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, NC, United States, George Pouliot, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, Thomas E Pierce, EPA, Office of Research and Development, Durham, NC, United States and James Beidler, General Dynamics IT Inc, Research Traingle Park, United States
Use of a detailed physics-based modeling approach for evaluating the impact of low-intensity operational burning activities (Invited) (352782)
Eric Victor Mueller1, Nick Skowronski2, Kenneth Lawrence Clark3, Michael R Gallagher3, Zakary Campbell-Lochrie4, Carlos Walker-Ravena5, Robert Kremens6, William Mell7, Albert Simeoni8 and Rory M Hadden4, (1)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (2)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Morgantown, WV, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, New Lisbon, NJ, United States, (4)University of Edinburgh, School of Engineering, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (5)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (6)Rochester Institute of Techno, Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester, NY, United States, (7)US Forest Service Seattle, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, United States
CAndbox: Modeling Fire Spread on Real-Time Interactive Terrain (379703)
David Robinson1, Kevin Speer2, Bryan Quaife1 and Miles Currie3, (1)Florida State University, Scientific Computing, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)Florida State University, Department of Scientific Computing (DSC), Tallahassee, United States, (3)Florida State University, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, Tallahassee, United States
Comparing HIGRAD/FIRETEC to QUIC-Fire, a Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Model for Operational Applications (450138)
Scott Goodrick, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, Rodman Linn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Sara Brambilla, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Modeling Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface: Challenges and Opportunities (404382)
Michael John Gollner, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Fire Protection Engineering, College Park, MD, United States

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