Overview of the GOES Biomass Burning Monitoring Program FY04 Elaine M' Prins NOAANESDISORA Advanced

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Overview of the GOES BiomassBurning Monitoring
ProgramFY04 Elaine M. PrinsNOAA/NESDIS/ORAA
dvanced Satellite Products BranchMadison,
WIChristopher C. SchmidtJoleen M. FeltzJay
HoffmanUW-MadisonCooperative Institute for
Meteorological Satellite StudiesMadison, WI
August 11, 2004
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Biomass Burning Researchand Applications
? Real-time GOES Wildfire ABBA (WF_ABBA)
monitoring with product distribution via the web
ftp Applications - Hazards
early detection and diurnal monitoring of rapid
intensification of Wildfires in the U.S. and
Canada. (Published in Weather and
Forecasting) - Climate change, land-use
land-cover change, aerosol/pollutant modeling,
socio-economic and health, education and
(Smithsonian/National Zoo, Exploratorium Global
Change Education Program) general web community.
? Validation Studies -
Quebec, Canada - Acre, Brazil - Nature
Conservancy Upper Midwest U.S. ? Interannual
trend analyses in the Western Hemisphere -
Diurnal, interannual, geographical trends
throughout the Western Hemisphere (beginning in
2000) - Applications Smoke/cloud
interactions, effects on radiation budget, human
health and disease, plant physiology. ?
Participation in interdisciplinary
land-use/land-cover change and fire dynamics
collaborations focusing on impact of
fire in South America (NASA-LBA program) -
Land-use/Land-cover change International effort
focusing on Southwest Brazil with multi-sensor
fire product validation (GOES/MODIS/AVHRR)
and intensive ground truth component.
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Biomass Burning Researchand Applications
? WF_ABBA fire product model data
assimilation efforts - NASA ESE/IDS
Navy real-time assimilation into NAAPS model to
analyze and predict aerosol loading
and transport. (Published in GRL) - Univ.
of Sao Paulo and Brazil INPE real-time
assimilation into the RAMS model to diagnose
regional CO and PM2.5. (In print, Env. Fluid
Dynamics) - NCAR Assimilation into EPA
Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model -
NASA/GSFC Assimilation into GOCART for climate
change studies - University of Alabama
Huntsville ? Air Quality
Collaborations - NASA/Langley Air Quality
Management Applications Program Infusing
satellite Data into Environmental
Applications (IDEA) in collaboration with U.S.
EPA (Submitted to BAMS) - Collaborations with
the WRAP (Western Regional Air Partnership) for
fire emissions inventories. (Western
Governors' Association and the National Tribal
Environmental Council) - Collaborations
with OAR Office of Weather and Air Quality.
Assimilation of GOES WF_ABBA in air quality
models. ? GOES-9 Wildfire ABBA processing
for the western Pacific in support of the
NOAA/NWS PARTS program ? Implementation of a
global geostationary network (GOES, MSG, MTSAT)
within the framework of IGOS GOFC/GOLD
Geostationary Fire Workshop held in Darmstadt,
Germany in March ? Simulation and
assessment of future NPOESS VIIRS and GOES-R fire
monitoring capabilities
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Geostationary WF_ABBA Program Research Path
Global geostationary fire monitoring and
assimilation of fused geo/polar fire products
will result in greatly improved assessments of
global burning and effects on the environment.
Development/Implementation of GOES-R fire
algorithm and other future geostationary fire
monitoring capabilities around the globe
Enhanced fire monitoring in the Western
Hemisphere and throughout the world.
Maximize use of multiple data sources. Take
advantage of strengths of each system to create
improved fused fire products.
Fusion of current and future polar/geo fire
products
Transfer of global geo fire monitoring system
to NESDIS OSDPD ongoing support would ensure
routine long-term stable global fire record for
numerous applications.
Operational global geostationary fire monitoring
system
Science Advance
Adapt the GOES WF_ABBA for application with
MSG, GOES-9 and MTSAT-1R. Significant development
effort due to differences in the instruments and
respective fire monitoring capabilities.
Global geostationary fire monitoring system
Develop and implement a rapid scan WF_ABBA for
early detection and high temporal wildfire
monitoring in North America with minimal false
alarms (lt5). Incorporate into NESDIS OSDPD
Hazards Mapping System (FY05).
Rapid Scan WF_ABBA
Western Hemisphere Wildfire ABBA (WF_ABBA)
Implementation of half-hourly WF_ABBA throughout
Western Hemisphere Applications in hazards,
global change, visibility/air quality monitoring
(NASA-IDEA) . Near real time assimilation in
aerosol/trace gas transport models (NRL-NAAPS,
INPE/CPTEC RAMS). Validation efforts Canada,
U.S. and Brazil. Transfer to NESDIS OSDPD
(2003).
South American ABBA
Implementation of first automated contextual
geostationary diurnal fire detection system in
South America. Applications in trend analysis,
land-use/land-cover change, emissions monitoring,
and carbon cycle studies.
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GOES WF_ABBA Diurnal Monitoring of Wildfires in
the Western U.S.
GOES-10 WF_ABBA Alpha-Blended Imagery (GOES
Visible, IR, WF_ABBA, USGS GLCC)

• Half-hourly GOES alpha-blended imagery provide
  insight into diurnal variation in fire and
  weather
• Currently products are available on-line within
  half-hour of image receipt
• Goal is to provide fire products within 5 minutes
  for regional sectors in rapid scan mode this
  year. Rapid scan mode can be requested by the
  fire weather community.

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GOES WF_ABBA Validation Effort in Quebec

• Capabilities of the GOES WFABBA at High Latitudes
  in Quebec, Canada
• Over the Intensive Protection Zone (South of 50
  N)
• WF_ABBA cannot replace the expensive aircraft
  patrols
• However, it can serve as a second insurance
  against the larger fires (represents major
  forest lost during a season and expensive to
  suppress)
• During 2002, WF_ABBA quicker than SOPFEU in 3 to
  5 cases
• WF_ABBA detected fires as small as 1 ha in size
• Over the Restricted Protection Zone (North of 50
  N)
• Quicker than the existing detection on the
  ground in more than 50 of the casesh
• Detects many fires that remained ignored on the
  ground
• Quicker than NOAA-14 in most cases during the
  seasons 99-00
• Courtesy of Michel Moreau (Env. Canada)

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Nature Conservancy GOES WF_ABBA Validation
Effort in Northern Plains
GOES WF_ABBA Fire Categories
0 Processed Fire Pixel 1 Saturated
Fire Pixel 2 Cloudy Fire Pixel
Possible Categories 3 High 4
Medium 5 Low
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Fire Locating and Modeling of Burning Emissions
Web Site http//www.nrlmry.navy.mil/flambe/index
.html
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Intercontinental Transport of Biomass Burning
Plumes Rationale

• Because of non-linear effects, cases of
  intercontinental transport likely result in
  highest smoke impact efficiency.
• Increasing standards for air quality require
  that we consider intercontinental transport into
  the United States.
• Long range transport is usually associated with
  interesting meteorology. We need to understand
  and model this meteorology if we hope to
  understand the carbon cycle as well as long term
  forecasting.

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Courtesy of J. Reid and D. Westphal,
NRL-Monterey
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Smoke Events in Southern Texas
Health alert is issued News is
released
Jun Wang, U.S.Nair, Sundar A Christopher, Richard
T. McNider, Jeff Reid, Elaine M. Prins, and Jim
Sykzman An Integrated System for Studying the
effect of Central American smoke aerosols on air
quality and climate over the Southeastern United
States, Submitted to 13th Conference on Satellite
Meteorology and Oceanography, 2024 September
2004, Norfolk, Virginia.
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IGOS GOFC/GOLD Global Geostationary Fire
Monitoring Workshop March 23-25, 2004, EUMETSAT,
Darmstadt, Germany
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Workshop Goal To discuss, plan, and coordinate
the development and implementation of a near
real-time operational global geostationary fire
monitoring network.
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Demonstration/feasibility Project http//gofc-fire
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.Workshop.SummaryReport.pdf 1.) Implement
rapid scan GOES-10/-12 WF_ABBA in the U.S. to
show the impact of high temporal geostationary
fire monitoring capabilities on fire detection
and suppression efforts. 2.) ORA and CIMSS will
implement an experimental version of MSG WF_ABBA
by June 2005 followed by MTSAT-1R in 2006. 3.)
NRL-Monterey will demonstrate the impact of
assimilating all available global geostationary
fire products (GOES, MSG, MTSAT-1R) into the
NAAPS. 4.) Validation efforts will be performed
in coordination with the CEOS LPV working group
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GOES-R and GOES-I/M Simulations of Southern
California Fires
GOES-12 Simulated 3.9 micron Data Padua/Grand
Prix Fires Date 27-Oct-03 Time 0950 UTC
GOES-R Simulated 3.9 micron Data Padua/Grand Prix
Fires Date 27-Oct-03 Time 0950 UTC
Brightness Temperature (K)
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Shortcomings and Deficiencies
The primary issue of concern is continued
operational support for a global geostationary
fire monitoring system. Although a global
geostationary fire monitoring network is
technically feasible, it must be supported by
NESDIS operations in order to sustain the
activity and produce standardized long-term fire
inventories of known accuracy. The operational
cost for maintaining a global diurnal
geostationary WF_ABBA monitoring system is fairly
minimal (lt50-75k per year) considering the
impact. Failure to implement/maintain will
result in a lost opportunity to utilize
international environmental satellites to monitor
global biomass burning in a cost-effective
manner.
The second issue of concern is a reduction in
collaborative personnel within the Biomass
Burning Monitoring Team at UW-Madison CIMSS for
at least the next year. Total fed personnel
1 at 50 Total CIMSS personnel 1 at 50
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