1. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts Pandora Accessing Prometheus through the back door Pandora

2. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts Pandora Features Standalone executable Run any number of Prometheus simulations in a batch Requires Prometheus COM Reads all parameters from a text file Required inputs: fuels, weather, parameters file, projection file Optional inputs: fuel type lookup table, elevation, slope, aspect, ignition shape file Outputs: fire perimeters (shape files), burned area grid, FBP grids e.g. fire intensity, spread rate Help file

3. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts Pandora Options Fuel lookup table Fuel patches Terrain grid inputs Grass curing Time interval Burn period settings Angle and distance thresholds Hourly FFMC calculation method Output files and locations Log file (includes area burned) Single or multiple ignitions

4. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts Pandora Sample input file (see help file for more information) Fire_Name Fire7 Projection_File c:\saska\prometheus\fire7_fbp.prj FBP_GridFile c:\saska\prometheus\Fire7_fbp.asc ←ascii grid format Elev_GridFile c:\saska\prometheus\Fire7_elev.asc Slope_GridFile c:\saska\prometheus\Fire7_slope.asc Aspect_GridFile c:\saska\prometheus\Fire7_aspect.asc WxStation_Lat 54.4442 ←weather station info for calculating Foliar Moisture Content WxStation_Lon -106.362 WxStation_Elev 593 Wx_File c:\saska\prometheus\Fire7_wx.txt Init_FFMC 87.2758 Init_DMC 29.5382 Init_DC 454.634 Init_Hour 12 FFMC_Method 1 ←1 = equilibrium; 0=Van Wagner Grass_Curing 80 Ign_DateTime 01/07/1998:12:37:00 Ign_X 75 ←ignition location in number of cells from bottom left Ign_Y 75 Fuel_Table none Angle_Distance none Option1 none ←slots for future expansion Option2 none Option3 none Time_Interval 300 ←calculate fire perimeter every 300 seconds (5 minutes) Time_Steps 24 ←run for 24 hours Out_Perimeters 1 ←export final fire perimeter to shape file Out_ShapeFiles c:\saska\working\pbperim ←shape file will be called pbperim24.shp Out_GridFiles c:\saska\prometheus\fire7 Out_Components fi ←fi = fire intensity; grid will be called fire7fi

5. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts Pandora User interface User intervention is optional Help available Progress window displays status, simulation time, and area burned

6. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts Pandora SFMS link Click ignition point in SFMS Fire displayed with hourly perimeters

7. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts Pandora Output display in SFMS

8. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts Pandora Ensemble modelling

9. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts Pandora Acknowledgements Alberta / Prometheus / Cordy Rob Bryce / Prom. COM Stacey Vojtek (beta tester) Marc Parisien Bernie Todd

10. Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Ressources naturelles Canada Service canadien des forêts Pandora Get it here! Free! Free download Send comments & suggestions to penglefi@nrcan.gc.ca FTP location:  ftp://ftp.nofc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/pub/fire/misc/ftp://ftp.nofc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/pub/fire/misc/