CANSAC Presentation for IASC, Oakhurst, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005

1. CANSAC Presentation for IASC, Oakhurst, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005

2. As shown here, the CANSAC project is just one of several FCAMMS entities around the nation.

3. Current CANSAC Member Groups - USDA Forest Service Reg. 5 - Bureau of Land Management CA State Office - Bureau of Land Management NV State Office - US Fish and Wildlife Service Pacific Region - National Park Service - USDA Forest Service Pacific SW Research Stn - California Dept of Forestry and Fire Protection - California Air Resources Board - San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District CANSAC Board: Chairman: Tom Hatcher, USFS Operational Appication Group, Chair: John Snook, USFS Technical Advisory Group, Chair: Kemal Gurer, CARB

4. CEFA/CANSAC Personnel: • Dr. Tim Brown, CEFA Director • Dr. Julide Koracin, Operations and Research Manager • Hauss Reinbold, Post-processing, webmaster, software • support • Beth Hall, OAG Liaison • Domagoj Podnar, Systems Administrator, MM5 support • Tesfamichael Ghidey, Ph.D. Graduate Student, research

5. What’s new with CANSAC? • There are several very useful new products that have come online this past year, and verification is now available. • Capability for doing BLUESKY runs on individual burns will also be online soon (probably by mid-December). We would like a few volunteers to test it this winter. • Most recent Board meeting was June 16th in Sacramento • Dr. Tim Brown of CEFA, Evan Shipp of SJVUAPCD, CANSAC BOD chairman Tom Hatcher and myself would like to put on a “CANSAC workshop” this winter or early spring. What is the best forum for this? It could be incorporated into a half day at next IASC mtg.

14. Upon selecting the 00Z Nov. 14th run

16. The next three frames show near-surface Temps for all three resolutions of the CANSAC MM5 model Valid time was 10 am Mon. 11/14/05 36-km, 12-km, and 4-km

25. This is the Sounding site selection map for CANSAC, based on data from the 4km resolution domain. When you put your cursor over any of the blue dots, the name of the site is revealed. Click on it and you will go to a graphic with that site’s model sounding, and a list of other times you could see soundings for. The next frame shows an example of a predicted Corning (Sacramento Valley) sounding from Nov. 14th

26. 24-hr forecast sounding for Corning CA. Valid p.m. of Mon. 11/14/05 WSW winds Notice the NW to NE wind direction variation with height

28. Top part of a Meteogram for Prather CA (near here)

30. Lifted Index is shown in colors Dew Point temperatures are the contour lines

32. Predicted surface winds for NW Quadrant, 4am Tues. 11/15/05

33. Further south on the Same graphic

35. Predicted surface winds for SW Quadrant, 7 am Tues. 11/15/05

37. Predicted surface winds for SE Quadrant, 7 am Tues. 11/15/05

39. San Joaquin Valley UAPCD High-resolution graphic

40. NOPS/SOPS Predictive Services Areas

41. REDDING Fire Weather Center CONTACT INFORMATION: Office: 530-226-2730 FAX: 530-226-2742 OLD: www.fs.fed.us/r5/fire/north/fwx NEW:http://gacc.nifc.gov/oncc/predictive/weather/index.htm Staff: John Snook, Brenda Graham, Steve Leach, and one vacancy

42. RIVERSIDE Fire Weather Center CONTACT INFORMATION: Office: 909-276-6520 FAX: 909-276-6439 OLD: www.fs.fed.us/r5/fire/south/fwx NEW:http://gacc.nifc.gov/oncc/predictive/weather/index.htm Staff: Ron Hamilton, Tom Rolinski, Harold Coffer, Matt Shameson

43. NWS Office Coverage

44. The ROMAN program is an excellent way to keep track of what the observa- tions around your PSA are showing. These obs can come from a variety of agencies.

45. Hourly Fire Danger, Central California sector

46. Any Questions?