Session: FW-10
Smoke and Air Quality

Chair

Didier Davignon

Time

13:30 - 14:50 on Thursday, 22nd of June 2017

Venue

SH-2620

13:30

Predicting the minimum Height of Forest Fire Smoke within the Atmosphere using Machine learning and Data from the CALIPSO Satellite

Angela Yao (University of British Columbia)
13:50

Wildland Fire Smoke monitoring and forecasting by Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change: recent Case Studies

Frank Dempsey (Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change)
14:10

Environment and Climate Change Canada's FireWork System: taking Advantage of Remote Sensing of Wildland Fires to improve Air Quality and Smoke Forecast Services

Didier Davignon (Canadian Meteorological Centre Operations, Environment and Climate Change Canada), Radenko Pavlovic (Canadian Meteorological Centre Operations, Environment and Climate Change Canada), Kerry Anderson (Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada), Paul-andré Beaulieu (Canadian Meteorological Centre Operations, Environment and Climate Change Canada), Jack Chen (Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada), Peter Englefield (Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada), Hugo Landry (Canadian Meteorological Centre Operations, Environment and Climate Change Canada), Michael D. Moran (Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada)