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site: USFS - AIRFIRE - Bluesky playground v3

URL: https://tools.airfire.org/playground/v3/emissionsinputs.php

Playground provides interactive access to the models and calculations enabled by the BlueSky Framework. Users can enter basic fire information and compute various fuels, fire, and emissions information as well as model plume rise and smoke dispersion. This can be particularly useful for prescribed burns, potential burnouts, and other fires that may not have been picked up within the routine BlueSky daily runs.

  • Customized emissions and dispersion modeling

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  • Emissions Inputs

    • Fire type

      • Prescribed

      • Wildfire

      • Piles

    • Acres

    • Location

    • Fuels

      • By location, or custom including crowns, shrubs, snags/ladder fuels, sound wood, moss, rotten wood, duff, middens, activity, length of ignition

    • Fuel Moisture

      • Source by NFDRS or Measured, 10 hour, 1000 hr, duff and litter, and days since rain

    • Consumption

    • Canopy and Shrub

    • Timing

      • Combustion phase - smoldering and flaming

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  • Emissions Results​​

    • Hourly Emissions 

      • PM2.5

      • PM10

      • CO

      • CO2

      • GHGs

      • CH4

      • NOx

      • VOC

      • NH3

      • SO2

    • Total Consumption and Emissions

      • Consumption and Heat by BTU​

      • Average Fuels & Emissions per Acre 

      • PNG, JPEG, PDF, and SVG Vector

      • HYSPLIT and VSMOKE

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  • Meteorology Inputs

    • Standard Archives

      • Pacific Northwest 1.33-km

      • CA/NV 4-km

      • CA/NV 1.33-km

      • National 3-km

      • Pacific Northwest 4-km

      • National 12-km

      • Alaska 12-km

    • Special Archives

      • Bend, OR 333m 2015

      • 18Z FW 1.27km (Northern California)

      • OOZ FW 1.27km (Colorado/Wyoming)

      • 12Z FW 1.27km (Central California)

      • 06Z FW 1.27km (Northern California)

      • Rough Fire

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  • Dispersion Inputs

    • Plumerise Plume Top Series

    • Modeled and Adjusted

    • Unstable, Well Mixed and Stable

    • Number of Particles

    • Grid Resolution

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  • Dispersion Results​

    • Export as animation, WebSky, KML, or PDF. ​

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