- Conduct Wildfire Simulations
- Open Source Materials
- Pilot Upper-Air Profiler
- Climate Change
- Climate Change Projection Application
- Open Source Materials
Pyregence has available for sharing roughly 17 TB of data from test flyovers performed by Courtney Aviation on behalf of the USDA Forest Service National Infrared Operations (NIROPS) Unit and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire).
The upper-air pilot study was designed to determine whether upper-air wind data can be used to improve short-term (up to 15 hours) and very-short-term (0–3 hours) wind forecasts. The project team deployed an Atmospheric Systems Corporation (ASC) Model 2000 sodar system near Cobb Mountain in northern California and explored the potential to integrate the collected data into next-generation fire models and data management systems currently used by utilities for routine operations. To meet these objectives, Pyregence researchers will leverage and augment existing meteorological networks with upper-air wind measurements and provide data for use in meteorological models and other data management systems currently used by utilities.