Monday, August 22, 2011

Fire Weather Experiment Begins Today

Example HWT display, showing satellite-based surface dryness anomaly on the left and the online survey worksheet on the right.


Today marks the beginning of the first ever fire weather experiment at the HWT. This year will be a very informal year with only a few local participants. Our goal is to establish a strategy and framework for which future fire weather experiments can occur at the HWT. We plan on examining some satellite based vegetation and surface measurements such as NDVI, NDVI change, surface dryness, and dryness anomaly. We will also be examining some experimental model data including the simulated satellite imagery and lightning threat from the NSSL-WRF.

We hope that we can get some valuable feedback on these products, as well as how to best demonstrate them in future experiments. I will be posting regularly about our progress.

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