| Wind Wizard |
Wind Wizard simulates surface flow wind in mountainous terrain. It can provide information about the effect of topography on local wind flow at the 100-300 ft scale. The wind simulations are not forecasts but rather simulations of what the wind flow would be under different general (synoptic) wind speed and direction scenarios. Over the last four years Wind Wizard has been used to simulate local wind speed and direction on more than 300 fires, and results from these simulations have been used to improve the accuracy of fire growth predictions in both time and space, identify locations of high and low fire potential, communicate local wind conditions to firefighting crews, improve safety zone reliability, inform Incident Management Team fire management efforts, explore appropriate prescription for prescribed burns, increase firefighter and public safety, and determine environmental conditions leading to fire entrapments.
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