SCIENCE x Fire: Fire Weather and Smoke
Webinar Date
Tuesday, 2/28/2023, 2 – 3pm EST
- Introduction to SCIENCE x Day 2, brief overview by Aaron Piña
- Fire weather forecasting, by Brian Potter
- New Technologies for Monitoring Smoke Impacts, presented by Shawn Urbanski
- Smoke Plume Dynamics, presented by Yong Lui
Presenters
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Brian Potter, PhD
Research Meteorologisthttps://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/brian.potter -
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Shawn P. Urbanski, PhD
Research Physical Scientisthttps://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/shawn.p.urbanski -
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Yongqiang Liu, PhD
Research Meteorologist / Leader, Atmospheric Science Teamhttps://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/yongqiang.liu -
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Aaron J. Piña, PhD
National Program Lead, Atmospheric Science & Fire Weather Researchhttps://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/aaron.pina -
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Ilana Abrahamson
Supervisory Ecologisthttps://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/ilana.l.abrahamson
Associated Publications
- Brian Potter, Daniel McEvoy. 2021. Weather factors associated with extremely large fires and fire growth days
- Matthew Reilly, Aaron Zuspan, Joshua S. Halofsky, Crystal Raymond, Andrew McEvoy, Alex W. Dye, Daniel C. Donato, John B. Kim, Brian Potter, Nathan Walker, Raymond J. Davis, Christopher J. Dunn, David M. Bell, Matthew J. Gregory, James D. Johnston, Brian J. Harvey, Jessica Halofsky, Becky K. Kerns. 2022. Cascadia Burning: The historic, but not historically unprecedented, 2020 wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, USA
- Andrew M. Chiodi, Brian Potter, Sim Larkin. 2021. Multi‐decadal change in Western US nighttime vapor pressure deficit
- Andrea Watts, Brian Potter, Jay J. Charney, Alan Srock. 2020. The Hot-Dry-Windy Index: A new tool for forecasting fire weather
- Adam Kochanski, Kirk R. Baker, William E. Mell, Rodman Linn, Ronan Paugam, Yongqiang Liu, Jan Mandel, Aime Fournier, Mary Ann Jenkins, Scott Goodrick, Gary Achtemeier, Fengjun Zhao, Roger D. Ottmar, Nancy H. F. French, Narasimhan Larkin, Timothy Brown, Andrew T. Hudak, Matthew B. Dickinson, Brian Potter, Craig Clements, Shawn P. Urbanski, Susan Prichard, Adam Watts, Derek McNamara. 2019. Fire behaviour and smoke modelling: model improvement and measurement needs for next-generation smoke research and forecasting systems
- Susan Prichard, Sim Larkin, Roger D. Ottmar, Nancy H.F. French, Kirk Baker, Tim Brown, Craig Clements, Matthew B. Dickinson, Andrew T. Hudak, Adam Kochanski, Rod Linn, Yongqiang Liu, Brian Potter, William E. Mell, Danielle Tanzer, Shawn P. Urbanski, Adam Watts. 2019. The fire and smoke model evaluation experiment—a plan for integrated, large fire–atmosphere field campaigns
- Brian Potter. 2018. Quantitative evaluation of the Haines Index's ability to predict fire growth events
- Brian Potter. 2018. The Haines Index – it's time to revise it or replace it
- Andrew R. Whitehill, Russell W. Long, Shawn P. Urbanski, Maribel Colon, Andrew Habel, Matthew S. Landis. 2022. Evaluation of Cairpol and Aeroqual air sensors in biomass burning plumes
- David L. Peterson, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Toral Patel-Weynand. 2022. Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States: A Scientific Assessment
- Russell W. Long, Andrew Whitehill, Andrew Habel, Shawn P. Urbanski, Hannah Halliday, Maribel Colón, Surender Kaushik, Matthew S. Landis. 2021. Comparison of ozone measurement methods in biomass burning smoke: An evaluation under field and laboratory conditions
- Matthew S. Landis, Russell W. Long, Jonathan Krug, Maribel Colón, Robert Vanderpool, Andrew Habel, Shawn P. Urbanski. 2021. The U.S. EPA wildland fire sensor challenge: Performance and evaluation of solver submitted multi-pollutant sensor systems
- Jonathan Krug, Russell Long, Maribel Colón, Andrew Habel, Shawn P. Urbanski, Matthew S. Landis. 2021. Evaluation of small form factor, filter-based PM2.5 samplers for temporary non-regulatory monitoring during wildland fire smoke events
- Aoxing Zhang, Yongqiang Liu, Scott Goodrick, Marcus Williams. 2022. Duff burning from wildfires in a moist region: different impacts on PM2.5 and ozone
- Fengjun Zhao, Yongqiang Liu, Scott Goodrick, Ben Hornsby, Jeffrey Schardt. 2019. The contribution of duff consumption to fire emissions and air pollution of the Rough Ridge Fire
- Roger D. Ottmar, Yongqiang Liu, Scott Goodrick, Aika Y. Davis, Gary Achtemeier, Brian Gullett, Johanna Aurell, William Stevens, Roby Greenwald, Yongtao Hu, Armistead Russell, J. Kevin Hiers, M. Talat. Odman. 2015. Fire emission uncertainties and their effect on smoke dispersion predictions: a case study at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA
- Warren E. E. Heilman, Yongqiang Liu, Shawn P. Urbanski, Vladimir Kovalev, Robert Mickler. 2014. Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: Plume rise, atmospheric transport, and chemistry processes
- Yongqiang Liu, Scott Goodrick, Warren E. E. Heilman. 2014. Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: Wildfire–climate interactions
- Yongqiang Liu, Scott Goodrick, Gary L. Achtemeier, Ken Forbus, David Combs. 2013. Smoke plume height measurement of prescribed burns in the south-eastern United States
- Scott Goodrick, Gary Achtemeier, Sim Larkin, Yongqiang Liu, Tara M. ( Strand. 2012. Modelling smoke transport from wildland fires: a review
- Yongqiang Liu, Gary Achtemeier, Scott Goodrick. 2008. Sensitivity of air quality simulation to smoke plume rise
- Yongqiang Liu. 2004. Variability of wildland fire emissions across the contiguous United States
- Cheng-En Yang, Joshua S. Fu, Yongqiang Liu, Xinyi Dong, Yang Liu. 2022. Projections of future wildfires impacts on air pollutants and air toxics in a changing climate over the western United States
- Yongqiang Liu, Yang Liu, Joshua Fu, Cheng-En Yang, Xingyi Dong, Hanqin Tian, Bo Tao, Jia Yang, Yuhang Wang, Yufei Zou, Ziming Ke. 2022. Projection of future wildfire emissions in western USA under climate change: contributions from changes in wildfire, fuel loading and fuel moisture
- Yongqiang Liu, Scott Goodrick, John Stanturf. 2021. Climate Downscaling for Fire Managemen
Last updated July 14, 2026