Ninth symposium on fire and forest meteorology

The symposium is being organized by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Committee on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology and will be held 18-20 October 2011 at Hotel Zoso, Palm Springs, California.

The theme of the symposium will be to share experiences, new techniques and technologies and/or changes in the areas of:

1. impacts of weather and climate on wildfire;
2. operational forecasting (short to long term) of fire weather for wild, prescribed, and fire use fires;
3. model studies and development, including coupled fire-atmosphere models and mesoscale models;
4. use and assessment of climate forecasts in fire management planning;
5. smoke and fire decision support tool development;
6. techniques in smoke management and mitigation related to new NAAQS and haze standards;
7. improvements to fire danger and fire behavior systems related to meteorology; and
8. field studies of fire-atmosphere interactions.