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Pre-Work documents for S-290

 

Anderson- Aids to Determining Fuel Models

http://training.nwcg.gov/pre-courses/s290/S-290%20Student%20CD/Aids%20to%20Determining%20Fuel%20Models.pdf

 

Basic Land Navigation

http://www.nwcg.gov/pms/pubs/475/PMS475.pdf

 

Fireline Handbook Appendix B

http://www.wildfire.gov/pms/pubs/410-2/appendixB.pdf

 

The Black "Fire Weather" book.  If you can't find a paper copy, here is a large download (16MB)

 

http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/barkbeetles/14/

 

You can also find it on the Publications page of the BEHAVE home page

 

https://www.frames.gov/partner-sites/behaveplus/home/

 

(as a matter of fact, you should download ALL these documents) 

 

 

Documents You Need

Pre-Course Work

Flame Method Primer

 

 

 

 

Web Sites helpful in Fire Behavior Prediction:

 

http://onlinetraining.nwcg.gov/node/209

S-390 Pre Course Work and many good references and tools

 

http://www.fs.fed.us/fmi/downloads/nomographs.html

New Fire Behavior Nomographs from Fire Modeling Institute

 

 

http://onlinetraining.nwcg.gov/node/214

S-490 Pre-Course Material and Reference Material from NWCG

 

 

http://landfire.cr.usgs.gov/viewer/viewer.htm

Download your landscape files for FARSITE and FLAMMAP or Wind Ninja-- and many other data.

Be sure to select your projection in the download page!  Use the Modify Data Request Button and select the output projection. 

 

 

 

http://gacc.nifc.gov/oscc/

South Ops Predictive Services Page with many useful links

 

http://forecast.weather.gov/wxplanner.php?site=sgx

Fire Weather Planner

 

 

 

http://firelab.org/applications

Software for Fire Behavior Prediction

Especialy useful is the publications section for each model.

 

 

http://www.cefa.dri.edu/HourlyFD/

Hourly Fire Danger for California

 

http://www.wfas.net/images/firedanger/fdr_obs.txt

Actual NFDRS Indexes

 

http://www.wfas.net/images/firedanger/fdr_fcst.txt

Predicted NFDRS Indexes

 

http://www.wfas.net/index.php/ltan-resources

Fire Behavior Analysis Resources

 

http://fam.nwcg.gov/fam-web/pocketcards/pocketcards.htm

Fire Danger Pocket Cards

 

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/fire_wx/

NWS Fire Weather -National Page

 

http://www.predictiveservices.nifc.gov/weather/weather.htm

NICC-Fire Weather Page

 

http://www.wildfirelessons.net/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=0a1a3125-93ee-4b9a-a651-ab51358dc9e9

Fire Behavior Community Page at the Lessons Learned Center

 

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/firewx/cafw/index.php

California Fire Weather page from NWS

 

 

http://depts.washington.edu/nwfire/dps/

Fuels Photo Series

 

http://www.wfas.net/nfmd/public/index.php

National Fuel Moisture Database

 

http://www.firefightermath.org/

FIREFIGHTER MATH :

A review of Math Concepts useful in Fire Behavior Prediction

 

An excellent discussion of plume dominated fire behavior and plume collapse

http://hotlist.wildlandfire.com/threads/1891-Ice-Capping-Column-Collapse

 

 

Useful Apps for Phone and IPAD
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