(Dates will likely be modified, depending on student progress and new fire cases.)
| Topic | Activities & Assignments | Learning Goals. By the end of this section, you will be able to ... |
|---|---|---|
| Lab/HW | Start reviewing the topics below and answering the assignment questions in class as Lab work, and finish at home as homework. Submit via Canvas within a week after today. | Focus your studies of the topics below in order to answer the attached Lab/Homework questions. |
| FIRMS | Explore NASA's website on Fire Information for Resource Management System. See fb23. |
Use NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) to get near-real time (and historic) fire hotspot info from satellites. Explain its utility and its limitations. Explain how active fires are detected using thermal anomalies observed by satellite. |
| GWIS | Explore the website for the Global Wildfire Information System. See fb24. | Describe what fire-related products are available from the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS). Explain how to use GWIS maps and charts. |
| CIFFC | Explore the website of the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. See fb27. | Describe what wildfire information is available from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC), and particularly from its Dashboard. |
| Weather Briefing | Short (10 minute) weather briefing on Vancouver weather by a student team. Utilize the weather-briefing "cookbook" to select which images and movies to show. | Give a well structured weather briefing using appropriate maps and graphs, and finishing within the alotted time. Gain experience in public speaking and working as a team. Strengthen your understanding of atmospheric dynamics and thermodynamics. Strengthen your ability to form a 3-D picture of the weather in your mind. Utilize appropriate terminology and jargon. |
| NIFC | Explore the website for the US national Interagency Fire Center. See fb31. | Describe what fire info is available from the US National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). |
| BlueSky FireWeather | Explore the firesmoke.ca website for smoke and fire-weather forecasts for North America. | Relate the real-time weather products on the FireWeather portion of firesmoke.ca to the real-time moisture codes and fire indices. |