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Preparing to fight fires
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Visible satellite imagery.
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18 June 2007 12Z skewt
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ACCAS clouds.
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Sounding from Boise, ID at 00 UTC 5 Apr 2007
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Skew-T graphic
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Sounding from Boise, ID at 00 UTC 5 Apr 2007
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Sounding from Boise, ID at 00 UTC 6 Apr 2007
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Sounding from Boise, ID at 00 UTC 6 Apr 2007
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Sounding from Boise, ID at 12 UTC 6 Apr 2007
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Sounding from Boise, ID at 00 UTC 7 Apr 2007
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Sounding from Boise, ID at 12 UTC 6 Apr 2007
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Sounding from Boise, ID at 00 UTC 6 Apr 2007
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Burnout operations at Landmark, ID.
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Cascade fire base map.
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ACCAS clouds.
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Smoke affecting an urban area.
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Picture of firefighters
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Smoke rising from the King County Creek Fire located within the boundaries of the Kenai NWR.
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Crowning fire in spruce forest within the boundaries of the Kenai NWR.
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Fire at night
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Field burning at Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge
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Pine understory burning at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
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Sounding from Glasgow, MT 12 UTC 6 September 2007
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Torching of a group of trees
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Haines Index
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Schematic of Haines index concept
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Image of life tree being torched
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Three-panel image for Haines game
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Three-panel image for Haines game
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Three-panel image for Haines game
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Three-panel image for Haines game
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Three-panel image for Haines game
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Three-panel image for Haines game
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Helicopter operations near the North Fork Fire, 13 August 2007.
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Helicopter at the Cascade Complex.
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Monitoring prescribed burn operations.
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Monitoring prescribed burn operations.
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Seasonal variation in the mixing layer height
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Sounding showing mixing height at 00 UTC
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Sounding showing mixing height at 12 UTC
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Model sounding.
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Surface Analysis 00 UTC 05 April 2007
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Surface Analysis 00 UTC 05 April 2007
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Surface Analysis 12 UTC 05 April 2007
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Surface Analysis 00 UTC 06 April 2007
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Surface Analysis 12 UTC 06 April 2007
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Case 2 fires
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Large wall of smoke from North Fork fire.
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Tall plume of smoke from Hellroaring Creek, taken from Mt Washburn lookout.
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Large smoke plume over Yellowstone fires in unstable conditions
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Patrol car road block
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Aerial view through smoke inversion layer of Absaroka range near southeast arm of Yellowstone Lake.
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Aerial view of smoke trapped by an inversion
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Group of employees at Old Faithful Geyser boardwalk with dense smoke
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NPS Photo by Jeff Henry
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Silhouette of Old Faithful Inn and people through dense black smoke
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Aerial of smoke over forest.
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Aerial view of prairie burn in Manhattan, Kansas under strong winds and stable conditions
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Fire burning along edges of distinct burn scar
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Land Managers set a prairie burn with drip torches under stable conditions and light winds at the Konza Biological Research Station, Manhattan, KS.
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Sounding from Spokane, WA 12 UTC 10 July 2001
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Mule pack train with emergency firefighting equipment, Payette National Forest.
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Dick Birger
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Paul Broyles, Great Basin IMT Commander at the Cascade Complex fire
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Incident Meteorologist and Fire Behavior Analyst launch weather balloon to track winds aloft.
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Cascade Fire Information Center
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Sounding from Rapid City, SD 00 UTC 08 July 2000
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Sounding from Rapid City, SD 00 UTC 8 July 2000
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Upper Air Sounding from Rapid City, SD at 00 UTC on 8 Jul 2000
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Sounding from Rapid City, SD 00 UTC 16 July 2000
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Upper Air Sounding from Rapid City, SD at 00 UTC on 8 Jul 2000
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Sounding from Rapid City, SD 12 UTC 27 July 2005
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Sounding from Rapid City, SD 12 UTC 30 July 2005
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Sounding from Riverton, WY 12 UTC 8 July 2005
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DC-3 fire fighting aircraft
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Case 1 Base map.
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Model sounding.
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Visible satellite imagery.
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Smoke settles in the valley of Johnson Creek.
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Maggie Williams
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Forest fire smoke emission factors.
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Smoky skies hindered air operations.
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Sounding from Tampa Bay, FL 00 UTC 13 February 2006
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TBW Feb 13 2006 00z Skewt
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Upper Air Sounding from Rapid City, SD at 00 UTC on 8 Jul 2000
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Sounding from Great Falls, MT at 12 UTC 22 Feb 2002
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Sounding from Great Falls, MT 12 UTC 16 August 2005
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Animation showing the development of a thermal belt and the resulting fire behavior.
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Torching of tree after the inversion broke
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NWS/Coleen Decker
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Transport winds calculator example calculation.
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The COMET Program
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Transport winds calculator.
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The COMET Program
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Transport Winds Calculator
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The COMET Program
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Common values of ventilation index.
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National Wildfire Coordination Group
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Sounding from Great Falls, MT at 12 UTC 22 Feb 2002
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NOAA
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Visible satellite imagery.
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NOAA
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