(Not necessarily taught in the order listed here. See the "Schedule" tab above for schedule details.)
Background
Orientation
Recent forest fires
History and trends of forest fires in W. Canada
Indigenous forest and fire management practices and ways of thinking
Fire Weather
Forest-fire fundamentals
Fire behavior
Fuel and moisture indices
Fire danger indices
Synoptics & Fire-Weather Forecasting
Intro to synoptics based on NWP
Atmospheric cross-sections & potential temperature
Weather map analysis; 3-D interpretation of the atmosphere
Weather forecasting
Winds: geostrophic, gradient, jet streams, low-level jets
Mid-latitude cyclones and fronts
Accessing real-time and historical satellite, radar, NWP, lightning, smoke, hot spot, weather obs data, and other forecast resources
Microscale, Mesoscale & Climate Issues
Thunderstorms, lightning & pyrocumulus
Topographically driven flows
Dynamically-driven mountain flows
Climate cycles and climate change
Synthesis: Fire Weather Forecasting & Society
Automated fire-weather & smoke forecasting issues
Fires, forest management & sustainable solutions
Willdland urban interface (WUI) fires
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