PI	Stavros Solomos, Haris Kontoes
Participant	National Observatory of Athens

Information on wildfire events and fire smoke dispersion is provided by FLEXPART-WRF simulations driven by the WFABBA hot spot emissions (http://wfabba.ssec.wisc.edu/). This service is based on the FireHub fire detection service of IAASARS/NOA (Kontoes et al., 2013; Solomos et al., 2015) and includes online calculation of emission rates and plume rise from the satellite detected Fire Radiative Power (FRP). The model operates every hour in a warm-start recycle configuration.

References

C. Kontoes, I. Papoutsis, T. Herekakis, N. Sifakis Wildfire Rapid Detection and Mapping and Post-fire Damage Assessment in Greece Earthzine (2013)

S. Solomos, V. Amiridis, P. Zanis, E. Gerasopoulos, F.I. Sofiou, T. Herekakis, J. Brioude, A. Stohl, R.A. Kahn, C. Kontoes (2015), Smoke dispersion modeling over complex terrain using high resolution meteorological data and satellite observations – The FireHub platform, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 119, October 2015, Pages 348–361, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.08.066, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1352231015303113