BlueSky Framework

Description
BlueSky is a modeling framework. BlueSky modularly links a variety of independent models of fire information, fuel loading, fire consumption, fire emissions, and smoke dispersion. At each modeling step, BlueSky has several different specific models from which to choose. BlueSky is not a model per se because many different modeling pathways are possible within BlueSky.

Use
BlueSky connects models together and makes them easy to run in combination. Therefore BlueSky can enable:

• the lookup of fuels information from fuel maps
• the calculation of total and hourly fire consumption based on fuel loadings and weather information
• the calculation of speciated emissions (such as CO2 or PM2.5) from a fire
• the calculation of vertical plume profiles produced by a fire
• the calculation of likely trajectories of smoke parcels given off by a fire
• the calculation of downstream smoke concentrations.

How to get it
Website: https://portal.airfire.org/

Tool Restrictions and Limitations
You can operate BlueSky from your computer. You can do this through a web-based application (BlueSky Playground) we have developed.

Links: 
AirFire Home
BlueSky Playground