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Wildland Fire Research and Development Collaboratory

To submit material for this page, contact Lara Ziady at ziady@ucar.edu .

Media/Press Releases
(Posted for one year, then archived)

August 14, 2003 - Inside the Glacier Fire: Mobile Radar Tracks Swirling Winds in Montana Blazes.

 

Congressional/Administration News
(Posted for one year, then archived)

December 2003

President Bush Signs Healthy Forest Restoration Act into Law
Bush to Sign Bill to Curb Wildfire Threat

September 2003 — Udall, Hefley Advocate Use of Geospatial Technologies in Wildland Fire Management

Links

UCAR Wildfire Education Outreach
Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS)
National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)
National Fire Plan
Joint Fire Science Program
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Indian Affairs
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Fire Management
National Park Service
USDA Forest Service Fire and Aviation
National Association of State Foresters
Western Governors' Association
Nature Conservancy
Dry Forest Mechanized Fuels Treatment Trials Project

Presentations
Note: Presentations will age off after 6 months. You may download the Powerpoint file if you would like to retain a copy.

Wildland Fire Collaboratory Demo, 3rd International Wildland Fire Conference, October 2003, Sydney, Australia

Coen, Janice — NCAR

Prescribed Fire DSS User Group and Goals, Wildland Fire R&D Collaboratory Meeting, April 25, 2003 (click here to download)

Computational Science & Engineering Aspects of Wildland Fire Modeling, SIAM Conf. On Computational Science and Engineering, February 11, 2003 (click here to download, 91 MB)

Fire Behavior Modeling and Observations
, Briefing for GACC meteorologists, Fort Collins, Colorado, 9 April 2002 (click here to download)

Wagoner, Richard — NCAR
Background Briefing on Post Processing Data Fusion Technology at NCAR, Briefing for GACC meteorologists, Fort Collins, Colorado,
9 April 2002 (click here to download)

Publications (Peer-reviewed papers, conference papers, books or major reports - posted for 2 years)
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Coen, Janice — NCAR
Clark, T. L., J. L. Coen, and D. Latham, 2002: Description of the NCAR-FireLab Coupled Atmosphere-Fire Model. Intl. J. Wildland Fire. Submitted.

Coen, J. L., 2002: Wildfire Weather. Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, J. Holton, J. Pyle, and J. Curry, eds. Academic Press. Submitted.

Coen, J. L., 2001: Wildfire Research at NCAR: Wildfire simulations, observations of fire dynamics, and applications for hazard management. 3rd Intl. Conf. Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry. Denver, November 5-7. 4 pp.

Coen, J. L., and T. L. Clark, 2001: Coupled Atmosphere-Fire model simulations in various fuel types in complex terrain. 4th. Symp. Fire and Forest Meteor. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Reno, Nov. 13-15. 4 pp.

Friedli, Hans — NCAR
Friedli, H.R., L.F. Radke, J.Y. Lu, C.M. Banic, W.R. Leaitch, J.I. Mac
Pherson, Mercury emissions from burning of biomass from temperate North American forests: laboratory and airborne measurements, Atmos. Environ. 37, 253-267, 2003

Friedli, H.R., L.F. Radke, R. Prescott, P.V. Hobbs and P. Sinha, Mercury emissions from the August 2001 wildfires in Washington State and an agricultural waste fire in Oregon, and atmospheric mercury budget estimates, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 17(2), doi:10.1029/2002GB001972, 2003a.

H.R. Friedli, L.F. Radke, R.Prescott, P.V. Hobbs and P.
Sinha: Mercury emissions from the August 2001 wildfires in Washington State and an agricultural waste fire in Oregon and atmospheric mercury budget estimates, Global Biogeochemistry Cycles, in press.

Friedli, H., L. Radke, 2003: Mercury Emissions from the August 2001 Wildfires in Washington State and an Agricultural Waste Fire in Oregon, and Atmospheric Mercury Budget Estimates. Global Biogeochemistry Cycles. 37(2), 253-267.

Friedli, H., L. Radke, 2002: Mercury Emissions from Wildland Fires. Presented at the National Atmospheric Deposition Program Technical Meeting, September 12/13, 2002, Seattle, WA.

Haggerty, Julie A. — NCAR
Haggerty, J.A., J.A. Curry, and G. Liu, 2002: The potential for estimating cloud liquid water path over sea ice from airborne passive microwave measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 107.

Liu, G., J. Coakley, J. Curry, J. Haggerty, and M. Tschudi, 2002: Retrieval of cloud droplet size from visible and microwave radiometric measurements during INDOEX: Implication to aerosols' indirect radiative effect, J. Geophys. Res., submitted.

Liu, G., J.A. Curry, J.A. Haggerty, and Y. Fu, 2001: Retrieval and characterization of cloud liquid water path using airborne passive microwave data during INDOEX, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 28719-28730.

Mahalingam, Shankar - UC Riverside
Mahalingam, S., and P. D. Weidman, “Activation energy asymptotic analysis and numerical modeling of a strained corner flame,” Combustion Theory and Modeling, 6 (1), pp. 155-172, 2002.

Pakdee, W., Zhou, X., and S. Mahalingam, “Direct and large-eddy simulation applied to modeling of combustion of pyrolysis fuel gas,” AIAA Paper AIAA-2002-1083, 2002.

Sun, L., Zhou, X, D. Weise, and S. Mahalingam, “IR-Based Estimation of Velocities Above Flames Spreading over Different Fuels,” Paper # 02S-88 presented at the Spring WSS/CI meeting of The Combustion Institute, San Diego,
CA, March 2002.

Zhou, X., and S. Mahalingam, “Evaluation of reduced mechanism for modeling combustion of pyrolysis gas in wildland fire,” Combustion Science and Technology, 171, pp. 39-70, 2001.

Anderson, K, R., and S. Mahalingam, “Numerical study of vortex/flame interaction in actively forced confined non-premixed jets," Journal of Heat Transfer, 122, pp. 376-380, 2000.

Running, Steve - U. of Montana
Canadell, J.G., H.A. Mooney, D.D. Baldocchi, S.W. Running and et al.
(2000) Carbon Metabolism of the Terrestrial Biosphere: A Multitechnique
Approach for Improved Understanding. Ecosystems 0:1-16.

Running, S.W., P.E. Thornton, R.R. Nemani, J.M. Glassy. (2000) Global Terrestrial Gross and Net Primary Productivity form the Earth Observing System. In: Methods in Ecosystem Science, O.Sala, R. Jackson, and H.Mooney Eds. Springer-Verlag New York.

Schimel, D., J. Melillo, S.W. Running, et al. (2000) Contribution of Increasing CO2 and Climate to Carbon Storage by Ecosystems in the United States. Science 287:2004-2006.

White, M.A., M.D. Schwartz, S.W. Running. (2000) Young Students, Satellites Aid Understanding of Climate-Biosphere Link. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union Volume 81, No. 1, January 4, 2000.

Schimel, David S. - NCAR
Schimel, D.S., J.I. House, K.A. Hibbard, P. Bousquet, P. Ciais, P. Peylin, B.H. Braswell, M.J. Apps, D. Baker, A. Bondeau, J. Canadell, G. Churkina, W. Cramer, A.S. Denning, C.B. Field, P. Friedlingstein, C. Goodale, M. Heimann, R.A. Houghton, J.M. Melillo, B. Moore, D. Murdiyarso, I. Noble, S.W. Pacala, I.C. Prentice, M.R. Raupach, P.J. Rayner, R.J. Scholes, W.L. Steffen, and C. Wirth. 2001. Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems. Nature 414:6860,169-172.

Parton, W.J., E.A. Holland, S.J. Del Grosso, M.D. Hartman, R.E. Martin, A.R. Mosier, D.S. Ojima, D.S. Schimel. 2001. Generalized model for NOx and N20 emissions from soils. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 106015,17403?17419.

Hibbard, K.A., S. Archer, D.S. Schimel, and D.W. Valentine. 2001. Biogeochemical changes accompanying woody plant encroachment in a subtropical savanna. Ecology 82:7,1999-2011.

Pacala, S.W., G.C. Hurtt, D. Baker, P. Peylin, R.A. Houghton, R.A. Birdsey, L. Heath, E.T. Sundquist, R.F. Stallard, P. Ciais, P. Moorcroft, J.P. Caspersen, E. Shevliakova, B. Moore, G. Kohlmaier, E. Holland, M. Gloor, M.E. Harmon, S.M. Fan, J.L. Sarmiento, C.L. Goodale, D. Schimel, and C.B. Field. 2001. Consistent land? and atmosphere-based U.S. carbon sink estimates. Science 292:5525,2316-2320.

Rosenbloom, N.A., S.C. Doney, and D.S. Schimel. 2001. Geomorphic evolution of soil texture and organic matter in eroding landscapes. Global Biochemistry Cycles 15:2,365-381.

Kelly, R.H., W.J. Parton, M.D. Hartman, L.K. Stretch, D.S. Ojima, D.S. Schimel. 2000. Intraannual and interannual variability of ecosystem processes in shortgrass steppe. Journal of Geophysical Research 105:20,093-20,100.

Liu, S., W.A. Reiners, M. Keller, and D.S. Schimel. 2000. Simulation of nitrous oxide and nitric oxide emissions from tropical primary forests in the Costa Rican Atlantic Zone. Environmental Modeling and Software 15:727-743.

Pfaff, A.S.P., S. Kerr, R.F. Hughes, S.G. Liu, G.A. Sanchez?Azofeifa, D. Schimel, J. Tosi, V. Watson. 2000. The Kyoto protocol and payments for tropical forest: An interdisciplinary method for estimating carbon?offset supply and increasing the feasibility of a carbon market under the CDM. Ecological Economics 35:203-221.

Schimel, D., J. Melillo, H. Tian, A.D. McGuire, D. Kicklighter, T. Kittel, N. Rosenbloom, S. Running, P. Thornton, D. Ojima, W. Parton, R. Kelly, M. Sykes, R. Neilson, and B. Rizzo. 2000. Contribution of increasing C02 and climate to carbon storage by ecosystems in the United States. Science 287:2004-2006.

Vukicevic, T., B.H. Braswell, D.S. Schimel. 2000. A diagnostic study of temperature controls on global terrestrial carbon exchange. Submitted.

Zhou, X. - CA Riverside
Pakdee, W., X. Zhou, and S. Mahalingam, 2002: Direct and large eddy
simulation applied to modeling of combustion of pyrolysis fuel gas. Preprints 40th Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, January 14-17, 2002, Reno, NV.

Sun, L., X. Zhou, D. R. Weise, and S. Mahalingam, 2002: IR- based estimation of velocities above flames spreading over different fuels. 2002 Spring Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, March 25-26, San Diego, CA.

Zhou, X., W. Pakdee, and S. Mahalingam, 2001: An assessment of flame surface density model for combustion for wood pyrolysis gas using direct numerical simulation. Preprints 29th Intl. Symposium on Combustion, Dec. 13, 2001.

Zhou, X., and S. Mahalingam, 2001: A reduced mechanism for combustion modeling of pyrolysis gas in wildland fire. 2001 Joint Meeting of the Combustion Institute, March 25-28, Oakland, CA.

Zhou, X., and S. Mahalingam, 2002: The structure and properties of
diffusion flames of wood pyrolysis gas. Combustion and Flame (submitted).

Zhou, X. and S.Mahalingam, 2001: Evaluation of reduced mechanism for modeling combustion of pyrolysis gas in wildland fire. Combustion Science and Technology. 171: 39-70.

   
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