With a historic wildfire season in the West last year (2020), the importance of forecasting smoke movement came to the forefront. In mid-September, record wildfires in both California and Colorado ...
With smoke from western wildfires poised to spread from coast to coast this week, people will be looking to a NOAA smoke model for guidance on everything from how it might impact their area, to the ...
SAN FRANCISCO (NEXSTAR) — In addition to monitoring storms, lightning, heat advisories and other weather events, meteorologists have a new role on the West Coast: smoke forecaster. On Sunday night, ...
In this video, we present a new method that uses a swarm of drones to reconstruct the 3D structure of smoke plumes in outdoor environments. This approach enables high-resolution, volumetric tracking ...