Description and verification of the NOAA smoke forecasting system: The 2007 fire season

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 361-378

  Rolph, Glenn D ^a   Draxler, Roland R ^a   Stein, Ariel F ^a,b   Taylor, Albion ^a,b   Ruminski, Mark G ^c   Kondragunta, Shobha ^c   Zeng, Jian ^b,c   Huang, Ho Chun ^d   Manikin, Geoffrey ^e   McQueen, Jeffery T ^e   Davidson, Paula M ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Earth Resources and Technology   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^d SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^e CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE VALUES; EMISSION PROCESSING; EMISSIONS MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; FIGURE OF MERIT; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; FORECASTING SYSTEM; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; HAZARD MAPPING SYSTEM; LAGRANGIAN; MODEL EVALUATION; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION'S; PARTICULATE MATTER; PARTICULATE MATTER EMISSIONS; SINGLE PARTICLE; SMOKE LEVELS; SMOKE PLUME; U.S. FOREST SERVICE; WINTER MONTHS;

AIR QUALITY; DISASTERS; FIRES; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INFORMATION SERVICES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SMOKE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

AIR QUALITY; FORECASTING METHOD; GOES; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SMOKE; WILDFIRE;

AIR QUALITY; DISASTERS; FIRES; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLES; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SATELLITES;

SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS;

EID: 69949150194     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2222165.1     Document Type: Review

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