EAGER: Exploratory Studies of Wildfire Plume Dynamics and Microphysics

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项目编号	1719243
	EAGER: Exploratory Studies of Wildfire Plume Dynamics and Microphysics
	David Kingsmill
主持机构	University of Colorado at Boulder
项目开始年	2017
	2017-02-15
项目结束日期	2018-01-31
资助机构	US-NSF
项目类别	Standard Grant
项目经费	105481(USD)
国家	美国
语种	英语
英文摘要	Wildfires have a tremendous impact on lives and property around the country and the globe. One aspect of wildfires that has not received as much attention is the the smoke plume and how it interacts with the atmosphere. In the late summer of 2016, NSF approved a short deployment of the Wyoming King Air research aircraft to provide airborne measurements of a fire near Boise, Idaho. This award will fund the analysis of that data to determine whether the measurements are able to provide enough information to answer the many outstanding questions about the characteristics of wildfire plumes. The potential impact of the project is on the validation and improvement of fire behavior models, which may allow a safer and more efficient usage of air and ground resources for fighting wildfires. There is also a significant connection between wildfire plumes and aviation and air quality. The researcher will analyze data collected during the Rapid Deployment to Wildfires (RaDFIRE-2016) campaign which sampled a large wildfire northeast of Boise, Idaho in August 2016. Studies of wildfire plume dynamics and microphysics have mainly been conducted through numerical modeling simulations and observed through ground-based remote sensing. The RaDFIRE campaign was an initial test to determine whether instruments on the University of Wyoming King Air research aircraft could successfully observe important wildfire characteristics. Initial analysis suggests that the test was successful, but more thorough analysis is needed to determine whether the data is adequate enough to answer unresolved questions about plume dynamics and microphysics. The project fits within the EAGER program at NSF due to the focus on untested but potentially transformative research ideas that employ a radically different analysis approach.
来源学科分类	Geosciences - Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
文献类型	项目
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/70784
专题	环境与发展全球科技态势
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	David Kingsmill.EAGER: Exploratory Studies of Wildfire Plume Dynamics and Microphysics.2017.