Article
The Rapid Deployments to Wildfires Experiment (RaDFIRE): Observations from the fire zone
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
(2018)
Abstract
The Rapid Deployments to Wildfires Experiment (RaDFIRE) was a meteorological field campaign aimed at observing fire–atmosphere interactions during active wildfires. Using a rapidly deployable scanning Doppler lidar, airborne Doppler radar, and a suite of other instruments, the field campaign sampled 21 wildfires from 2013 to 2016 in the western United States. Observations include rotating convective plumes, plume interactions with stable layers and multilayered smoke detrainment, convective plume entrainment processes, smoke-induced density currents, and aircraft in situ observations of developing pyrocumulus. Collectively, these RaDFIRE observations highlight the range of meteorological phenomena associated with wildfires, especially plume dynamics, and will provide a valuable dataset for the modeling community.
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2018
DOI
10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0230.1
Publisher Statement
SJSU users: Use the following link to login and access the article via SJSU databases.
This article was published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, volume 99, issue 12, 2019, and can also be found online here.
© Copyright 2019 American Meteorological Society (AMS). Permission to use figures, tables, and brief excerpts from this work in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Any use of material in this work that is determined to be “fair use” under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act or that satisfies the conditions specified in Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act (17 USC §108) does not require the AMS’s permission. Republication, systematic reproduction, posting in electronic form, such as on a website or in a searchable database, or other uses of this material, except as exempted by the above statement, requires written permission or a license from the AMS. All AMS journals and monograph publications are registered with the Copyright Clearance Center (http://www.copyright.com). Questions about permission to use materials for which AMS holds the copyright can also be directed to permissions@ametsoc.org. Additional details are provided in the AMS Copyright Policy statement, available on the AMS website (http://www.ametsoc.org/CopyrightInformation).
Citation Information
Craig B. Clements, Neil P. Lareau, David Kingsmill, Carrie Lynn Bowers, et al.. "The Rapid Deployments to Wildfires Experiment (RaDFIRE): Observations from the fire zone" Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 99 Iss. 12 (2018) p. 2339 - 2359 ISSN: 1520-0477 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/craig_clements/44/