Using Day/Night Band Operationally Rim Fire 2013 Near Yosemite, CA.

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Using Day/Night Band Operationally Rim Fire 2013 Near Yosemite, CA

Good Afternoon… Matt Mehle – WFO Monterey National Weather Service - 11 years Incident Meteorologist – 7 years

What is an IMET? Incident Meteorologists – rapid response to an incident nearly anywhere and anytime in the United States. Established 1916. Respond to wildfires, oil spills, natural disasters or other “incidents” Safety of onsite personnel #1 priority - fire, air and rescue crews. Takes an “area” forecast and narrows it down to specific details pertaining to the incident ~70 IMETs nationwide, ~30 trainees On scene usually within 24 hours (~10 hrs avg) Diverse crowd and some of you may not know what an IMET is…. BP Oil Spill

Rim Fire Stats Acreage burned – over 255k burned Largest growth was 53k in one burn period 3rd largest in California history At its peak, over 5k personnel on the fire Two ICPs Human Caused Threatened Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy Water supply to San Fran and 2,000 year old trees

Day/Night Band – DSS Tool How did I use VIIRS as a DSS too? Great visualization for public/partners/media Easily shows growth and size Fire Personnel Hot spots and most active burning Aviation operations Smoke impacts on flight operations Smoke impacts on remote helibase/helispot

Rim Fire – Day/Night Band ICP Easy visualization layman on growth Fire Camp became so large it was visible too Another tool to show Fire personnel hotspots

Social Media - Viral One of our most ‘viral’ post of all time Great way to promote/introduce the day/night band Participate in discussion about the VIIRS product

Aviation DSS Great use of the VIIRS to track smoke. I was able to see what areas might be impacted by smoke before the daytime visible. Gave a ‘heads up’ to air ops.

Aviation DSS High Level Smoke Valley Smoke Airports * Rim Fire Every airport shown was not necessarily used by Air Operations. A few small airstrips were used and not shown. Airports * Rim Fire Yosemite VIIRS Day/Night Band Image *small airstrips not shown

Aviation DSS Reduced visibilities due to valley smoke Ron Rezek Able to inform Air Operations of potential smoke impacts before the sun has risen – huge time savings Potential delays for areal recon (mapping) Delays for transport of fire personnel/equip Delays on ‘bucket work’ on active fire Inform research group from NASA AMES Downwind sampling of plume

Aviation DSS In Summary – VIIRS Day/Night Band invaluable for early morning Air Ops briefing Time saver for Operations strategies and tactics Money saver for moving air resources

Questions? Tuolumne Grove Merced Grove - Giant Sequoias