Objectives

As part of the USDA Forest Service's national framework for regional atmospheric modeling, the Eastern Area Modeling Consortium (EAMC) works with other National Fire Plan (NFP) Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS) to address the following objectives:

• Employ atmospheric mesoscale models to make effective predictions of fire weather and develop improved fire-weather indices at the national and regional levels.
• Develop improved atmospheric mesoscale model predictions of smoke transport and diffusion.
• Ensure compatibility of EAMC products with products of other NFP-sponsored consortia.
• Conduct core fire science research on physical fire processes (including fire transitions, heat transfer, plume behavior, small scale fire-fuel-atmosphere interactions), fire-climate relationships, and fire danger assessment (including atmospheric processes associated with fire-weather development and evolution).

These objectives address the need for (1) better predictions and decision support tools for fire and air quality management, both regionally and nationally, and (2) basic research on how the atmosphere interacts with fuels and fires to affect fire behavior, smoke transport, air quality, and fire occurrence.For more information, visit our list of current studies..