Roger Ottmar Research Forester Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory USDA Forest Service Research—PNW Research Station Seattle, Washington Phone: 206-732-7826 E-mail: [email protected]Web: www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera RPO Meeting Austin, Texas February 9, 2005
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Roger OttmarResearch Forester
Fire and Environmental Research Applications TeamPacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory
• Southeast VIa: sand hill, sand pine scrub, and hardwood with white pine types in the Southeast United States with supplemental sites for Volume VI. (PMS 838)
• Alaska IIA: hardwood with spruce (NFES 2668)• Midwest Va: jack pine (NFES 2669)• PNW I: mixed conifer; juniper; sage; grass (NFES 2580)• Alaska II: black/white spruce (NFES 2581)• Rockies III: lodgepole; aspen; gambel oak (NFES 2583) • Southwest IV: pinyon/juniper; sage; chaparral (NFES 2584)• Midwest V: red/white pine; tall grass; oak/hickory (NFES 2582)• Southeast VI: long leaf pine; pocosin; marsh grass (NFES 2585)• Hawaii: grass, shrub, woodland, and forest types (PNW-GTR-156) • Training package: How to Use Photo Series (Rx 410-Smoke
• Northeast: Mixed hardwoods; pitch pine scrub; red spruce/balsam fir (Late 2005)
• Southwest borderlands: juniper/mixed oak (2006)
• Missouri breaks: sage, grass, juniper (2006)
Missouri Breaks Borderlands CaliforniaNortheast
Fuel Loading
Fuel Consumption
Emission Factor
Emission Production
Dispersion/Concentration
Black Area
Consume 3.0
FEPS
Photo series
FCCS
BlueSky
Air Chemistry project (Missoula Fire Lab)
Land Managers
Shortcut to fccs.jar.lnk
What is FCCS?
• Simple to use software tool
• Comprehensive set of fuelbeds with:–assigned and calculated characteristics
– fire potentials
• Allows customization of fuelbeds
• Assignment at multi-scales across the United States
Crown Fire
Surface Fire
Smoldering, Residual Effects
SnagTree
LadderFuels
Canopy Stratum
Shrubs
Needle Drape
Shrub Stratum
Graminoids HerbsNonwoody Vegetation Stratum
StumpsPiles and Jackpots Sound Wood Rotten Wood Woody Fuel
Stratum
Moss
Lichen
LitterMoss, Lichen, Litter Stratum
DuffGround Fuel Stratum
The use of fuelbed strata facilitates the creation of spatial data layers and allows the user to include, combine or
exclude as much detail as needed to suit an application.
Basal Accumulation
Fuelbed Strata and Categories
Select National Fuelbed
Review assigned variables of selected fuelbed in FCCS editor
Customize fuelbed
Calculate fuelbed properties
Generate output reports
Characteristics by fuelbed strata and category
Characteristics by fuelbed strata and category
FCCS Fire potentials
FCCS Fire potentials
Information Flow in FCCSEcoregion
Veg. form
Structure
Cover type
Change agent
Fire regime
Condition class
Fuel model crosswalk
Fuel model crosswalk
Application
• Use FCCS to develop a set of fuelbeds to represent an area– Select default National Fuelbeds– Customize with inventory data/expert
knowledge
• Assign fuelbeds to landscape
• Assign fuelbed characteristics and fire potentials at multiple scales
Application-- National Fire Plan Regional Haze Application-- National Fire Plan Regional Haze Project, EPA Emissions Inventory Fuels Map, and Project, EPA Emissions Inventory Fuels Map, and
test Forests for Region 6 (McKenzie, Sandberg, and test Forests for Region 6 (McKenzie, Sandberg, and Ottmar)Ottmar)
0 175 350 525Miles
Arizona white oak - Silverleaf oak - Emory oak woodland
Black cottonwood - Alder - Ash forestBlack oak woodland
Bluebunch wheatgrass - Bluegrass grassland
Chamise - Redshank chaparral shrubland
Chihuahua pine - Apache pine - Arizona cypress forest
Coastal sage shrubland
Creosote bush shrublandDouglas-fir - Pacific ponderosa pine / Oceanspray forest
16, 200416, 2004– 175 National Fuelbeds 175 National Fuelbeds – Draft user manual and help Draft user manual and help – Fine tuning fire potentialsFine tuning fire potentials– Building fuelbedsBuilding fuelbeds– Demonstrations in 2005Demonstrations in 2005
• FCCS final release—May, 2005FCCS final release—May, 2005
Modification and Validation of Fuel Consumption Modeling
Roger Ottmar, David Sandberg, Clint Wright, and Robert Vihnanek
Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
Pacific Northwest Research Station
Seattle, Washington
Website: www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera
Fuel Consumption Project
• Develop new; modify and improve existing fuel consumption models for fuel types where there is:Limited knowledgeIncreased wildland fire expectedEmphasis on shrubs and boreal forestEmphasis on combustion by fuel
stratum/categories Emphasis on smoldering phase
• Consume 3.0/user manual/training package
Objective
Alaska Rapid Response: Forest Floor and Emissions Characterization
Ponderosa Pine/Mixed Conifer
• Over 40 sites inventoried and burned
• New forest floor and woody fuel consumption models developed
• Implementing equations into Consume 3.0
Southern Pine/Hardwoods
• Over 40 sites inventoried and burned
• New forest floor and woody fuel consumption models developed
• Implementing equations into Consume 3.0
Shrublands and Grasslands
• Over 42 sites inventoried and burned
• New shrub consumption model being developed.
• Implementing equations into Consume 3.0
Fuel Consumption Project Sites
What is Consume 3.0?• Consume is a software package that
models the amount of fuel consumption and emissions of a fire, either wildland or prescribed
• Builds on an earlier software package, Consume 2.1 but is more user-friendly, more flexible, more accurate, linked to FCCS
• Not specific to PNW; can be used in all fuel/forest types