 Combustion-Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiments (Rx CADRE)
 2012 Fire
In 2011, the Joint Fire Science Program funded the second phase of the RxCADRE work, "Data Set for Fuels, Fire Behavior, Smoke and Fire Effects Model Development and Evaluation."
Current news and progress reports about this massive project can be found on a Rocky Mountain Research Station website.
2010 Fire
Individuals
and fire research teams from the Pacific
Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula
Fire Sciences Laboratory, Northern
Research Station, and Southern
Research Station as well as from universities (Georgia Institute
of Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology, San Jose State
University, University of Alberta, University of Montana, and University
of Idaho) came together as members of the Rx CADRE team to instrument
and collect data on prescribed burns in the southeastern United
States. This enabled scientists from around the United States and
Canada to collaborate, pool their resources, and combine efforts
to advance fire behavior and fire effects model development and
validation. Roger Ottmar
of FERA led the fuels team to collect fuels and fuel consumption
data. Kevin Hiers of the Jones Center coordinated the scientific
teams.
The teams documented fire-atmospheric dynamics on 6 prescribed
fires during 8 days in southern woodland fuelbed types on Eglin
Air Force Base (NW Florida) and the
Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center (SW Georgia).
Specifically, the teams
- Compared in situ and remote sensed heat environments
of prescribed burns
- Documented coupled atmospheric interactions
- Produced validation datasets for coupled fire-atmospheric dynamic
models
- Related fire behavior to first order fire effects.
To fully instrument fires, the teams collected data on:
- Pre-burn fuel loads
- Post burn consumption
- Fuel moisture
- Ambient weather
- Convective dynamics (in situ)
- Plume dynamics
- Radiant heat release (both from in-situ and remote
sensors)
- Fire behavior (in situ)
- elected fire effects.
The Discovery Channel
Canada collected interviews and footage and developed a 7-minute
segment that aired March 18 during their broadcast of the “Daily
Planet”.
The field campaign and data collection will be followed by a Core
Fire Science Caucus meeting to consolidate the data and begin the
process of completing a series of peer-reviewed publications that
will be multi-authored and integrated across the various aspects
of the project.
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