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Idaho Department of Environmental Quality

Idaho Smoke Management Operational Forecasting

Jacob Wolf

Outline

? Overview of operational smoke forecasting ? Meteorology ? Ag Burning ? Prescribing Burning ? Wildfire ? Review

Idaho Department of Environmental Quality

Assessing Smoke Impacts

? Data Download ? Analysis

? Met Data ? AQ Data ? Fire Data

? Modeling

? AP5 ? Blue Sky ? HRRR ? AQFG

? Products

? AQ reports ? Weather and Smoke Dispersion Forecasts

Idaho Department of Environmental Quality

Ag Burning Program

? Permitted agricultural burning program run by IDEQ ? Rule requires PM2.5 and O3 forecasting for burn call ? Recent lowering of O3 standard rule change SIP demonstration ? Only 3 O3 monitors in state ? When burns go bad, Post Event Review (Burn Day analysis)

? Would benefit from near-real time surface and mid-level O3 for burn day decisions

? Early morning timing of product availability would be beneficial to operational needs

? Measurements from areas without monitors would be programaltering

Idaho Department of Environmental Quality

Real Time Air Quality

August 05, 2017:



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