Fire Links
Pre-Work documents for S-290
Anderson- Aids to Determining Fuel Models
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.
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
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