Smoke Predictions for Southern California Fires*

Experimental (unvalidated) predictions created by a partnership between Desert Research Institute's Program for Climate Ecosystem and Fire Applications, US Forest Service's AirFire Team, and Sonoma Technology, Inc. Smoke and Air Quality forecasts utilize BlueSky and CMAQ modeling. Provided for research purposes only.

Fire Map Smoke Predictions Air Quality Predictions Contacts

* Please note that this page has stopped updating. Final product update occurred on 11/07/2007

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Fire Map
from SMARTFIRE data feed (more info)

Click to enlarge

 

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Smoke Predictions
from BlueSky California/Nevada experimental forecast - includes today's wildfire sources (vegetation only) -
does not include background smoke or other particulate matter sources (more info)

click to view(last modified: 12/31/1969 16:00:00) Or click here for Google Earth (thanks to S. Goodrick)

 

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Air Quality Predictions
from national BlueSky/CMAQ experimental forecast - includes today's and previous days' wildfire smoke
from BlueSky and other sources from the national emissions inventory (more info)

view hourly as animated gif view hourly in javascript loop view daily total

 

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Contact
For more information contact:

Dr. Tim Brown
Desert Research Institute
Director, Climate, Ecosystem, and Fire Applications
775.674.7090
tim.brown@dri.edu

Dr. Sim Larkin
USFS AirFireTeam
BlueSky Project Lead
206.732.7849
larkin@fs.fed.us

Dana Sullivan
Sonoma Technology, Inc.
707.665.9900
dana@sonomatech.com