Welcome to SEMIP

Welcome to SEMIP

SEMIP is the Smoke and Emissions Model Intercomparison Project, a multi-year community effort to analyze fire consumption, fire emissions, plume rise, and smoke dispersion models sponsored by the Joint Fire Science Program.

SEMIP is designed to be an open collaborative project.  All are welcome to participate.  To get involved, please contact us.

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What you can find here

• An overview of SEMIP
  
• A more technical introduction

• What modeling steps and outputs are being examined
• What models are being run
• What data is being analyzed and collected

• What test cases are being used
• What analyses are being done

• How to include your data or model

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SEMIP initial test cases

SEMIP utilizes a series of test cases to analyze to serve as a starting point for SEMIP's analysis.   These case have been selected to try to represent a wide array of conditions, fire types, regions, vegetation, weather, and use cases.  It is expected that additional test cases will be added over time.  Read more...

National Cases 

1. Fires Everywhere
2. National Emissions Inventory 2008

Regional Wildfire Case

3. California Wildfires (2007 & 2008)

Individual Wildfire Cases

4. Bugaboo Complex 2007
5. Tripod Complex 2006

Prescribed Fire Cases

6. Northwest Regional Rx Season
7. Southeast Regional Rx Season
8. Naches, WA Rx Fire

• Detailed descriptions of the test cases
• How the test cases were chosen

• Analysis considerations and procedures