Roger Ottmar Research Forester Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team Pacific Wildland...

Roger OttmarResearch Forester

Fire and Environmental Research Applications TeamPacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory

USDA Forest Service Research—PNW Research Station

Seattle, WashingtonPhone: 206-732-7826

E-mail: [email protected]: www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera

RPO Meeting

Austin, Texas

February 9, 2005

mailto:[email protected]

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

Natural Fuels Photo Series

Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team

Pacific Northwest Research Station

Seattle, Washington

Website: www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera

NortheastMissouri Breaks

Borderlands

Natural Fuels Photo Series Completed

• 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

Management)

Average 2 volumes per year

Photo Series in Preparation

• West: Deciduous-evergreen oak/savanna; mixed conifer/brush (January, 2005)

• 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


Black Area

Consume 3.0

FEPS

Photo series

FCCS

BlueSky


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)

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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

Douglas-fir - Sugar pine - Tanoak forest

Douglas-fir - Tanoak - Madrone forest

Gambel oak - Sagebrush shrubland

Grand fir forestGray pine / Ceanothus forest

Idaho fescue - Bluebunch wheatgrass grasslandInterior Douglas-fir - Ponderosa pine forest

Interior ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir - Engelmann spruce forestInterior ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir - White fir forest

Interior ponderosa pine forest

Live oak woodland

Lodgepole pine forest

Mesquite savanna

Mountain hemlock - Red fir - White pine - Lodgepole pine forestOregon white oak / Douglas-fir forest

Pacific ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir forest

Pacific ponderosa pine / Snowberry forest

Pacific ponderosa pine savanna

Pacific silver fir - Mountain hemlock forestPine - Black oak forestsPine - Oak forest

Pinyon - Juniper forestPonderosa pine - Jeffrey pine forest

Ponderosa pine - Pinyon pine - Juniper forest

Ponderosa pine savanna

Red fescue - Oatgrass grassland

Red fir forest

Redwood - Douglas-fir forest

Sagebrush / Bitterbrush shrublandSagebrush shrubland

Scrub oak - Chaparral shrubland

Showy sedge - Alpine black sedge grassland

Subalpine fir - Engelmann spruce - Lodgepole pine forestSubalpine fir/ Engelmann spruce forest

Sugar pine - Douglas-fir - Ponderosa pine / Oak forest

Tanoak - California bay - Madrone forestTobosa - Grama grassland

Trembling aspen / Engelmann spruce forest

Trembling aspen forest

Turbinella oak - Ceanothus - Mountain mahogany shrubland

Vaccinium - Heather shrublands

Western hemlock - Douglas-fir - Sitka spruce forest

Western hemlock - Douglas-fir - Western redcedar / Vine maple forest

Western hemlock - Western redcedar - Douglas-fir forestWestern juniper / Huckleberry oak forest

Western juniper / Sagebrush savanna

Wheatgrass - Cheatgrass grasslandWhite fir - Douglas-fir forest

Whitebark pine / Subalpine fir forest

Whitebark pine / Western juniper savanna

FCCS western fuelbeds

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High : 158

Low : 0

Available fuel (tons/acre)


Class 1 areas

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High : 158

Low : 0

High : 158High : 158

Low : 0

Available fuel (tons/acre)


Class 1 areasClass 1 areas

FCCS TimelineFCCS Timeline• FCCS Release Candidate version—November FCCS Release Candidate version—November

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

• Linkage to Consume 3.0, FOFEM, FETM, Linkage to Consume 3.0, FOFEM, FETM, FEPS, FASTRACS, FVS, Behave plus, etcFEPS, FASTRACS, FVS, Behave plus, etc

Fuel Loading

Fuel Consumption

Emission Factor

Emission Production


Black Area

Consume 3.0

FEPS

Photo series

FCCS

BlueSky


Land Managers

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


• New forest floor and woody fuel consumption models developed


Shrublands and Grasslands


• New shrub consumption model being developed.


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

Consume 3.0 Consume 3.0 Release Candidate Release Candidate

June 2005June 2005

Fuel Loading

Fuel Consumption

Emission Factor

Emission Production


Black Area

Consume 3.0

FEPS

Photo series

FCCS

BlueSky


Land Managers

Sam Sandberg

Roger Ottmar

Robert Norheim

What is FEPS?• FEPS is a software package that models

the amount and rate of consumption and emissions of a fire, either wildland or prescribed

• Builds on an earlier software package, EPM (Emissions Production Model) but is more user-friendly, more flexible, more accurate

• Not specific to PNW; can be used in all fuel/forest types

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