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Week |
Tuesday 2025 |
Thursday 2025 See the links below. |
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| 1 | 2 Sep (UBC Imagine Day. No Tuesday undergrad classes.) |
4 Sep. (link to Thursday week 01 Lect. Notes) Intro: Indigenous; significant fires, types of burns, WUI |
| 2 | 9 Sep. Analysis methods for weather charts. | 11 Sep (link to Thursday week 02 Lect. Notes) Sources of Fire Info: FIRMS, GWIS, CIFFC, NIFC, BlueSky. |
| 3 | 16 Sep. Types of weather charts: surface, upper air, cross sections. Observations: METARS. | 18 Sep (link to Thursday week 03 Lect. Notes) Fire behavior: fuels, moisture, wind, slope. |
| 4 | 23 Sep. Weather satellite imagery &interpretation. Satellites & orbits. Channels. Fire hot-spot detection. Sensors for lightning & drought. | 25 Sep (link to Thursday week 04 Lect. Notes) Antecedent conditions. Ignition sources. Fire danger rating systems. FWI Intro. |
| 5 | 30 Sep. (Truth & Reconcilation Day. No classes.) |
2 Oct Tuesday week 05 topics are covered during Thursday this week. Weather radar image interpretation: reflectivity, Doppler velocity, polarimetric. |
| 6 | 7 Oct. Atmospheric soundings, tephigrams, hodographs, stability & convection. | 9 Oct (link to Thursday week 05 Lect. Notes) FWI: Fire weather index system. |
| 7 | 14 Oct. Extratropical (mid-latitude) cyclones. | 16 Oct - Double Feature First hour: FBP: Fire behavior prediction system. (link to Thursday week 06 Lect. Notes) Second hour: Guest lecture by Mina Deshler on Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS). (Also possibly team -building methods.) |
| 8 | 21 Oct. Fronts and airmasses. | 23 Oct - Double Feature • First 50 minutes - Midterm Exam (tips) • Last 50 minutes - Case Study: High Level, AB, fire. 2019 . (link to Thursday Lect. Notes for High Level fire) |
| 9 | 28 Oct. Double feature. 1st hour: (McCollor) Effect of temperature, humidity, & clouds on fires. 2nd hour: (Stull) Regional weather, including downslope windstorms. |
30 Oct Also, in preparation for your own case-study capstone presentation, view (as homework) the demo presentation video for the Case Study: Sparks Lake, BC fire in 2021, as presented by Jalena Bennett. |
| 10 | 4 Nov. - Double Feature 1st hour: (McCollor) Convective storms (thunderstorms). 2nd hour: (Stull) Pyrocumulonimbus & fire tornadoes (see mc07.7 & 07.8) |
6 Nov - Double Feature Palisades Fire, CA - Capstone Presentation. by Red Team. Jasper, AB . - Capstone Presentation. by Green Team |
| 11 | 11 Nov. (Fall break. No Tuesday classes.) |
13 Nov - Double Feature First hour: Quebec Complex Fires - Capstone Presentation. by Orange Team. Second hour: Guest lecture by Dr. Chris Rodell, Meteorological Analyst at Technosylva. Title: "From UBC to Wildfire Operations: A Career in Fire Weather". If he is unable to come, then video and lab on the Paradise fire (link to Paradise Fire lecture notes.) |
| 12 | 18 Nov. First hour: Fort McMurray, AB - Capstone Presentation. by Blue Team. Second hour: Guest lecture by Matt MacDonald - BC Wildfire Service lead forecaster: On the forecast process at the BC Wildfire Service. |
20 Nov - Double Feature Camp Fire (Paradise, CA) - Capstone Presentation. by Violet Team. Marshall, CO . - Capstone Presentation. by Gold Team. |
| 13 | 25 Nov.
Weather Forecasting . Double feature: First hour: Doug McCollor: Nowcasting, short-range, & medium range forecasting. Second hour: Guest lecture by Lynn Engel: How to use modern tools on the internet to make forecasts, with links to tools. |
27 Nov - Double Feature 1) Overview of Numerical weather prediction (NWP), by Stull. (link to Thursday NWP Lect. Notes) 2) Guest lecture by Liam Buchart on Indigenous Fire Methods/Knowledge. (link to his slides) |
| 14 | 2 Dec. Double feature. 1st hour: (McCollor) Climate Change vs. Wildfires. 2nd hour: Guest lecture by Mariette Kulin, ECCC Senior Meteorologist, Training & Development. Topic is on Meteorology Careers with ECCC Meteorological Service of Canada. |
4 Dec - Triple Feature ========== Second hour: (Stull & McCollor)
Synthesis of weather, fire, and cultural issues. |
| Final Exam, Monday 15 December at 12 noon. (room IRC 3 ) | ||
Schedules and fire cases from past years: 2023 , 2024 , 2025 , 2026