Updates Log

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Capabilities:

Release:  October 2023

• • • Enabled Advanced Mode for Fire Information parameters.

      • • Allows to have multiple points and/or polygons on the fire information map. 

        • Each point or polygon is available to be used individually in an emissions scenario.

        • Allows to upload a shape file (in .kml, .kmz, or .zip format) with fire information.

    • Enabled Expert Mode for Fuel parameters.

      • • Allows up to five Fuelbeds to be used in the fuel loading calculation.

        • Flexibility to modify the percentage of fire each fuelbed covers.

        • Flexibility to modify fuel loading parameters for each fuelbed individually.

    • Enabled additional parameters for Fuel Moisture.

      • • Added options for duff, and sound and rotten coarse woody debris percentage available for consumption.

    • Moved some parameters into Expert Mode for Plume Rise.

      • • Allow to adjust the Plume Top.

        • Select the vertical emissions profile and vertical levels above the surface.

        • Set the Smoldering Fraction.

Release:  April 2022

• • • Improved runtimes

    • Enabled Expert Mode for HYSPLIT parameters

      • • Added flexibility to enter Output Grid Size, the Number of Particles, and the Grid Resolution

        • Added parameters for Dry Deposition and Wet Deposition

        • Added flexibility to enter the layer of thickness

    • Established a Met archive protocol

    • Added NOAA’s 1.27-km Fire Weather variable domains to the meteorological domains

Release: January 2022

• • • Visual Range output (NWCG Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed Fire pg.251)

Release: April 2021

• • • VSMOKE is available for dispersion

    • New buttons for improved control over updating fuels (Emissions Input)

    • Time profile - manually adjust in Advanced (Emissions Input)

    • Downloadable Emissions Report and Dispersion Report in PDF format

    • New domain map (HYSPLIT Dispersion - Meteorology Input)

    • Plume rise - modifiable up to 200% (HYSPLIT Dispersion Input)

Bug Fixes:

• • • Fixed smoldering profile

    • Default to 0.25 domain extent (HYSPLIT Dispersion Input)

    • Include FCCS 0 and 900 fuel types (to avoid interface hang)

    • Updated default values for shrub and canopy consumption in Wildfires. (Emissions Input)