Jason M. Forthofer

Treesearch Publications

• Natalie S. Wagenbrenner, Loren Atwood, Jason M. Forthofer, Isaac C. Grenfell. 2024. Predicting terrain-induced wind turbulence for smokejumper parachute operations
• Mohamed Mohsen Ahmed, Hazem M. Al-Bulqini, Arnaud Trouve, Jason M. Forthofer, Mark A. Finney. 2024. Simulation of complete or incomplete biomass degradation under parameterized wildland fire spread conditions
• Rebecca Jones, Jason M. Forthofer, Natalie S. Wagenbrenner. 2024. Fire Weather Alert System Mobile App (FWAS): Realtime data could save lives on the fireline
• Mohamed Mohsen Ahmed, Arnaud Trouvé, Jason M. Forthofer, Mark A. Finney. 2024. Simulations of flaming combustion and flaming-to-smoldering transition in wildland fire spread at flame scale
• Sylvia Kantor, Mark A. Finney, Sara S. McAllister, Torben Grumstrup, Jason M. Forthofer, Susan Prichard, Alistair Smith. 2023. Understanding wildfire as a dynamic system: A new comprehensive book on wildland fire behavior
• Adnan Darwish Ahmad, Nelson K. Akafuah, Jason M. Forthofer, Manabu Fuchihata, Taro Hirasawa, Kazunori Kuwana, Yuji Nakamura, Kozo Sekimoto, Kozo Saito, Forman A. Williams. 2023. Large-scale fire whirl and forest fire disasters: Awareness, implications, and the need for developing preventative methods
• Adnan Darwish Ahmad, Ahmad M. Abubaker, Ahmad Salaimeh, Nelson K. Akafuah, Mark A. Finney, Jason M. Forthofer, Kozo Saito. 2021. Ignition and burning mechanisms of live spruce needles
• Natalie S. Wagenbrenner, Jason M. Forthofer, Wesley Page, Bret W. Butler. 2019. Development and evaluation of a Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes solver in WindNinja for operational wildland fire applications
• Colin H. Miller, Wei Tang, Evan Sluder, Mark A. Finney, Sara S. McAllister, Jason M. Forthofer, Michael J. Gollner. 2018. Boundary layer instabilities in mixed convection and diffusion flames with an unheated starting length
• Wesley Page, Natalie S. Wagenbrenner, Bret W. Butler, Jason M. Forthofer, Chris Gibson. 2018. An evaluation of NDFD weather forecasts for wildland fire behavior prediction
• Natalie S. Wagenbrenner, Jason M. Forthofer, Chris Gibson, Abby Indreland, Brian K. Lamb, Bret W. Butler. 2018. Observations and predictability of gap winds in the Salmon River Canyon of Central Idaho, USA
• William J. Massman, Jason M. Forthofer, Mark A. Finney. 2017. An improved canopy wind model for predicting wind adjustment factors and wildland fire behavior
• Natalie S. Wagenbrenner, Jason M. Forthofer, Brian K. Lamb, Kyle S. Shannon, Bret W. Butler. 2016. Downscaling surface wind predictions from numerical weather prediction models in complex terrain with a mass-consistent wind model
• Paul A. Werth, Brian Potter, Martin E. Alexander, Craig B. Clements, Miguel G. Cruz, Mark A. Finney, Jason M. Forthofer, Scott Goodrick, Chad Hoffman, W. Matt Jolly, Sara S. McAllister, Roger D. Ottmar, Russell A. Parsons. 2016. Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume 2 for fire behavior specialists, researchers, and meteorologists
• Bret W. Butler, Natalie S. Wagenbrenner, Jason M. Forthofer, B. K. Lamb, Kyle S. Shannon, D. Finn, R. M. Eckman, K. Clawson, Larry S. Bradshaw, Paul A. Sopko, S. Beard, Dan M. Jimenez, Cyle E. Wold, Mark G. Vosburgh. 2015. High-resolution observations of the near-surface wind field over an isolated mountain and in a steep river canyon
• Mark A. Finney, Jack D. Cohen, Jason M. Forthofer, Sara S. McAllister, Michael J. Gollner, Daniel J. Gorham, Kozo Saito, Nelson K. Akafuah, Brittany A. Adam, Justin D. English. 2015. Role of buoyant flame dynamics in wildfire spread
• Jason M. Forthofer, Bret W. Butler, Charles W. McHugh, Mark A. Finney, Larry S. Bradshaw, Richard D. Stratton, Kyle S. Shannon, Natalie S. Wagenbrenner. 2014. A comparison of three approaches for simulating fine-scale surface winds in support of wildland fire management. Part II. An exploratory study of the effect of simulated winds on fire growth simulations
• Jason M. Forthofer, Bret W. Butler, Natalie S. Wagenbrenner. 2014. A comparison of three approaches for simulating fine-scale surface winds in support of wildland fire management: Part I. Model formulation and comparison against measurements
• J. M. Canfield, R. R. Linn, J. A. Sauer, Mark A. Finney, Jason M. Forthofer. 2014. A numerical investigation of the interplay between fireline length, geometry, and rate of spread
• Mark A. Finney, Jason M. Forthofer, Isaac C. Grenfell, Brittany A. Adam, Nelson K. Akafuah, Kozo Saito. 2013. A study of flame spread in engineered cardboard fuelbeds: Part I: Correlations and observations
• Brittany A. Adam, Nelson K. Akafuah, Mark A. Finney, Jason M. Forthofer, Kozo Saito. 2013. A study of flame spread in engineered cardboard fuelbeds: Part II: Scaling law approach
• David Frankman, Brent W. Webb, Bret W. Butler, Daniel Jimenez, Jason M. Forthofer, Paul A. Sopko, Kyle S. Shannon, J. Kevin Hiers, Roger D. Ottmar. 2012. Measurements of convective and radiative heating in wildland fires
• Paul A. Werth, Brian Potter, Craig B. Clements, Mark A. Finney, Scott Goodrick, Martin E. Alexander, Miguel G. Cruz, Jason M. Forthofer, Sara S. McAllister. 2011. Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers
• Jason M. Forthofer, Scott Goodrick. 2011. Review of vortices in wildland fire
• Jason M. Forthofer, K. Shannon, Bret W. Butler. 2010. Initialization of high resolution surface wind simulations using NWS gridded data
• Jason M. Forthofer, Bret W. Butler. 2010. Large scale fire whirls: Can their formation be predicted?
• Bret W. Butler, Jason M. Forthofer, K. Shannon, D. Jimenez, D. Frankman. 2010. The effect of terrain slope on firefighter safety zone effectiveness
• Bret W. Butler, D. Jimenez, Jason M. Forthofer, Paul A. Sopko, K. Shannon, Jim J. Reardon. 2010. In-situ characterization of wildland fire behavior
• Bret W. Butler, D. Jimenez, Jason M. Forthofer, K. Shannon, Paul A. Sopko. 2010. A portable system for characterizing wildland fire behavior
• Bret W. Butler, Jason M. Forthofer. 2010. Firefighter Safety Zone: The effect of terrain slope of separation distance
• Kara Yedinak, Jack D. Cohen, Jason M. Forthofer, Mark A. Finney. 2010. An examination of flame shape related to convection heat transfer in deep-fuel beds
• Jason M. Forthofer, Kyle Shannon, Bret W. Butler. 2009. Simulating diurnally driven slope winds with WindNinja
• Jason M. Forthofer. 2007. Modeling wind in complex terrain for use in fire spread prediction
• Dan M. Jimenez, Jason M. Forthofer, James Reardon, Bret W. Butler. 2007. Fire behavior sensor package remote trigger design
• Jason M. Forthofer, Bret W. Butler. 2007. Differences in simulated fire spread over Askervein Hill using two advanced wind models and a traditional uniform wind field
• Bret W. Butler, Mark A. Finney, Larry S. Bradshaw, Jason M. Forthofer, Chuck McHugh, Rick Stratton, Dan M. Jimenez. 2006. WindWizard: A New Tool for Fire Management Decision Support
• B.W. Butler, Jason M. Forthofer, M.A. Finney, L.S. Bradshaw, R. Stratton. 2006. High Resolution Wind Direction and Speed Information for Support of Fire Operations

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  WindNinja

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/windninja
• Tool
  

  WindNinja-Mobile

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/windninja-mobile
• Tool
  

  Fire Weather Alert System

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/fire-weather-alert-system

• Project
  

  Fundamental Wildland Fire Spread Research

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/firespread
• Project
  

  Deep Learning for High-Resolution Wildfire Modeling

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/deeplearning
• Program
  

  Fire, Fuel, and Smoke

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/firefuelsmoke
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Rifle Bullet Ignition

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/riflebulletignition
• Project
  

  Physics of Fire Spread

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/physicsoffire
• Project
  

  Fire Whirl Research

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/firewhirl
• Project
  

  Clearance Distances

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/clearance

Articles

• Article
  

  WindNinja integrated into NWS spot weather forecasts

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/articles/windninja-integrated-nws-spot-weather-forecasts
• Article
  

  Fire Weather Alert System Mobile App

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/articles/fire-weather-alert-system-mobile-app

Other Publications

• Understory
  

  Deep Learning for High-Resolution Wildfire Modeling

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/understory/deep-learning-high-resolution-wildfire-modeling
• Understory
  

  LIHTFire: A high-resolution 1D physics-based wildfire spread model

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/understory/lihtfire-high-resolution-1d-physics-based-wildfire-spread-model
• Understory
  

  Modeling wind in complex terrain for use in fire spread prediction

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/understory/modeling-wind-complex-terrain-use-fire-spread-prediction

Multimedia

• Video

  Can scientists finally decode fire? Freethink

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/multimedia/videos/can-scientists-finally-decode-fire-freethink
• Webinars

  The Fire Weather Alert System

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/webinars/fire-weather-alert-system
• Webinars

  The Fire Weather Alert System: A new fire weather warning system for on-the-ground firefighters

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/multimedia/webinars/fire-weather-alert-system-new-fire-weather-warning-system
• Video

  Fire Weather Alert System (FWAS) Quick Start Guide

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/videos/fire-weather-alert-system-fwas-quick-start-guide

• Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, B.A., Mechanical Engineering, 2001
• Colorado State University, Fort Collins, M.S., Forest Science, 2007