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Title:
Gridded Weather Input for Fire Area Simulation Model (FARSITE)
Category:
Operational
Status:
Operational
Service Area:
Fire Weather
Entered:
2006-03-15
Type:
Product
Data (Obs/Forecast/verification)
Dissemination System
Model
Model Data
Web Page
Data Mining Tool
Outreach / Education
Display App
Service
Other
Scope:
Description
FARSITE is a deterministic model developed and used by land management agencies. FARSITE simulates the spatial and temporal spread and behavior of fires under conditions of heterogeneous terrain, fuels, and weather. Required FARSITE weather input consists of maximum and minimum relative humidity, maximum and minimum temperature, daily precipitation, wind speed and direction and cloud cover. FARSITE is an important tool that fire agencies use to help keep firefighters safe. Pursuant to the NWS mission of saving lives and property, NOAA/NWS forecasters have been manually supplying FARSITE weather input to fire managers for a number of years.
Tags
Product information and survey access
Point of Contact
Document (e.g. PDD)
FARSITEPDD.pdf
Example file:
Product URL(s):
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/fire/FARSITE/FARSITE.php
http://www.weather.gov/organization.php
Comments via:
Comment Start Date:
0000-00-00 Comment End Date: 0000-00-00
Experimental
Notification:
Decision information
Deciding Official:
Decision:
Decision Date:
0000-00-00
Decision Document:
Operational
Notification:
Other Information:
URL 1 is a link to SLC as an example of the local page. The Farsite Web Data for other Western Region WFOs can be accessed from the Fire Weather Link on each WFO web page.
ID:457
Last edit date to this meta-data: 2017-12-19
