WRAP Plume Rise Module

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Description

The WRAP Plume Rise Module uses a formulation from the 2002 Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) Emission Inventory Report to generate vertical plume profiles.  The plume profiles are a function of fire size, total fuel loading, and a diurnal buoyancy profile. 

Model references:

WRAP, 2004. Fire emission inventory for the WRAP region -- phase I: Essential documentation. Western Regional Air Partnership Report No. 178-5.

WRAP, 2005. Fire emission inventory for the WRAP region -- phase II. Report to the Western Regional Air Partnership, prepared by Air Sciences, Inc., Report No. 178-6, July.

Model information contact:

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Model information link:

WRAP (2004): http://www.wrapair.org/forums/fejf/documents/emissions/WRAP_2002%20EI%20Report_20050107.pdf

WRAP (2005): http://www.wrapair.org/forums/fejf/documents/WRAP_2002_PhII_EI_Report_20050722.pdf

Module Info

Invoked as:

PLUME_RISE = WRAPPlumeRise

in configuration ini

Known issues:

Notes:

A fuel loading normalization factor is specified as 13.8 for wildfires and wildland use fires, and 5.0 for other fire types.

Maximum plume tops and plume bottoms are a function of 5 pre-defined fire size classes.

Data fields used: 

fuel_1hr, fuel_10hr, fuel_100hr, fuel_1khr, fuel_10khr, fuel_gt10khr, shrub, grass, rot, duff, litter, area

Related modules:

Authors:

• Pryden, STI;  Solomon, AirFire;  see contacts page
  

Current Module Version(s)

Version 1 - stable

5/29/09
model v2.0

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  Requires BlueSky Framework v3.1 or greater

Change Log

Version 1:    5/29/09

included as default in BlueSky v. 3.1