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Smoke and Air Quality

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Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges

Year of Publication
2016
Publication Type

Living with fire is a challenge for human communities because they are influenced by socio-economic, political, ecological and climatic processes at various spatial and temporal scales. Over the course of 2 days, the authors discussed how communities could live with fire challenges at local, national and transnational scales.

Wildfire smoke and public health risk

Year of Publication
2015
Publication Type

Wildfire activity is predicted to increase with global climate change, resulting in longer fire seasons and larger areas burned. The emissions from fires are highly variable owing to differences in fuel, burning conditions and other external environmental factors. The smoke that is generated can impact human populations spread over vast geographical areas.

Toward an integrated system for fire, smoke and air quality simulations

Year of Publication
2015
Publication Type

In this study, WRF-Sfire is coupled with WRF-Chem to construct WRFSC, an integrated forecast system for wildfire behaviour and smoke prediction. WRF-Sfire directly predicts wildfire spread, plume and plume-top heights, providing comprehensive meteorology and fire emissions to chemical transport model WRF-Chem, eliminating the need for an external plume-rise model.

2014 National Smoke Forum

Year of Publication
2014
Publication Type

The Forum was an opportunity to discuss the importance of wildfire smoke, review the current technology and tools that help inform decision making, discuss the policies and issues related to smoke impacts, and suggest plans for projects and organizations to address smoke issues in the future. Get the presentations and posters at FireSmoke.ca.