A
Web Interface for Fire Weather Forecast Services
Jared
Seehafer
Forecast Systems Laboratory, OAR
The
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory (Boulder, CO) collaborates with
the USDA Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Research Station (Ft.
Collins, CO) in the development and real-time implementation of
high-resolution weather forecast modeling in support of weather-sensitive
fire operations. This presentation describes and demonstrates
the web interface to the model output.
http://www.fs.fed.us/rmc/
Incident
meteorologists and forecasters at coordination centers can use
the web interface to locate and name discrete points (at or near
current fires, for example) and get site-specific textual forecasts
of weather conditions at the surface and aloft. This information
may be accessed via new selectors mapped onto an image of the
forecast domain, or the text messages can be emailed to the requestor.
USFS-supported
fire weather modeling activities take place at five Fire Consortia
for Advanced Modeling and Meteorology of Smoke (FCAMMS). Each
is encouraged to develop and share new capabilities such as these.
