Joint Fire Science Program Projects

Search of existing JFSP projects

We have reviewed all of the past funded JFSP projects to determine what potential datasets, models, and analyses of interest to SEMIP may exist.  This search was done primarily through public data on the JFSP website including the proposal abstracts.

Results

142 JFSP projects were identified as potentially having data, models, or analyses of interest.  These range from projects that have clearly generated data of interest (e.g., pre- and post- consumption plots on wildfire and prescribed burns) to projects potential data would have been collected in order to do the main portion of the project but not otherwise generated.

Of these 40 have been identified as priority items.

Some items of interest potentially include:

Pre- and post- burn fuel loading / consumption measurements for:

• Chapparel
• Ponderosa Pine
• Spruce-fir
• Hardwoods / Ozarks
• more...

Remote sensing techniques for fuels, including mapping

Burn severity maps

Improved consumption models

Plume rise models and measurements

Smoke monitoring

Full list

The full list of 40 priority and 142 total dentified JFSP projects of interest is in the linked PDF spreadsheet.

• JFSP Project Search Results Spreadsheet (NOTE: should be considered a working document, not a definitive reference)

Of the projects identified, we estimate:

• 22 have information related to Meteorology
• 53 have information related to Basic Fire Information
• 106 have information related to Fuel Loading
  
• 61 have information related to Total Consumption
• 14 have information related to Time Rate of Consumption
  
• 13 have information related to Emissions
• 9 have information related to Plume Rise
• 12 have information related to Dispersion

Next steps

Given the quanitity of projects identified, we are prioritizing those projects with data of significant importance to the identified initial Test Cases.  We are in the process of contacting the Principal Investigators of these 40 projects to see if they believe there are data, models, or analyses of utility to SEMIP.

Additional or missed projects

While care has been taken in the identification above, we recognize that some projects of significant interest may have been missed.  We would welcome having these projects brought to our attention, so please contact us.

Notes

The JFSP search was done in Spring 2009 by Candace Krull and Sim Larkin of the USFS AirFire Team.  All inaccuracies are theirs.