Paul A. Sopko

Treesearch Publications

• Matthew B. Dickinson, Cyle E. Wold, Bret W. Butler, Robert L. Kremens, Daniel Jimenez, Paul A. Sopko, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2021. The Wildland Fire Heat Budget—Using Bi-Directional Probes to Measure Sensible Heat Flux and Energy in Surface Fires
• Bret W. Butler, Steve Quarles, Christine Standohar-Alfano, Murray Morrison, Daniel Jimenez, Paul A. Sopko, Cyle Wold, Larry S. Bradshaw, Loren Atwood, Justin Landon, Joseph O’Brien, Benjamin Hornsby, Natalie S. Wagenbrenner, Wesley Page. 2019. Exploring fire response to high wind speeds: Fire rate of spread, energy release and flame residence time from fires burned in pine needle beds under winds up to 27 m s-1
• Kathy Gray, Don Latham, Paul A. Sopko. 2018. Comparison of two cloud to ground stroke datasets-Vaisala and WSI
• Bret W. Butler, C. Teske, Dan M. Jimenez, Joseph J. O'Brien, Paul A. Sopko, Cyle E. Wold, Mark G. Vosburgh, Ben Hornsby, E. Louise Loudermilk. 2016. Observations of energy transport and rate of spreads from low-intensity fires in longleaf pine habitat-RxCADRE 2012
• Paul A. Sopko, Larry S. Bradshaw, W. Matt Jolly. 2016. Spatial products available for identifying areas of likely wildfire ignitions using lightning location data-Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS)
• 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
• 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. Sopko, Don Latham. 2010. Progress towards a lightning ignition model for the Northern Rockies
• 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
• Paul A. Sopko, Don Latham, Isaac Grenfell. 2007. Verification of the WFAS Lightning Efficiency Map

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• Gray, Kathy; Latham, Don; Sopko, Paul. 2018. Comparison of two cloud to ground stroke datasets-Vaisala and WSI

• Project
  

  Fundamental Wildland Fire Spread Research

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/firespread
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  Firefighter Safety Zone Research

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

  Understanding Fire Response to Spatial Variations in Vegetation and Wind

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

  RxCadre Project

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

  Dry Lightning Strikes

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

• University of Montana, Missoula, B.S., Geology, 1986
• University of Montana, Missoula, B.S., Forestry, 1986