BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework
BlueSky is the U.S. Forest Service AirFire team's wildfire smoke modeling framework (NOT the social network of the same name). It chains together fire information, fuel loading, consumption, emissions, plume rise, and meteorological dispersion models to predict where smoke from wildland fires will travel and how it affects ground-level air quality. AirFire operates BlueSky Daily Runs that produce routine smoke forecasts, distributed through the AirFire tools portal for fire and air-quality decision support. It is developed and maintained by the USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station's Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory.
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