RaDFIRE-Rapid Deployments to Wildfires Experiment
Deployment to Camp Fire, 2018
RaPid Deployments to Wildfires
One of the key aspects of RaDFIRE was the use of a mobile atmospheric profiling system to study active wildfires from near the fire front.
PUBLICATIONS
DeTwiler Fire, Mariposa CA, 2017
Plume Dynamics
One of the core research goals of RaDFIRE was to gain a better understanding of plume dynamics and their role on extreme fire behavior.
Cover photo of the Camp fire on the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Publications
A suite of articles have been published in top journals highlighting our key findings. Many of these findings have led to new hypotheses and a proposed second field campaign.
Clements, C.B., N.P. Lareau, D. E. Kingmill, C. L. Bowers, C. P. Camacho, R. Bagley, and B. Davis, 2018: RaDFIRE-The Rapid Deployments to Wildfires Experiment: observations from the fire front. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99, 2539-2559. [link]
Lareau, N.P., and Clements, C.B., 2017: The Mean and Turbulent Properties of a Wildfire Convective Plume, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 56(8), 2289–2299. [link]
Lareau, N. P. and C.B. Clements, 2016: Environmental controls on pyrocumulus and pyrocumulonimbus initiation and development, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 16, 4005-4022 [link]
Lareau, N. P. and C.B. Clements, 2015: Cold Smoke: smoke-induced density currents cause unexpected smoke transport near large wildfires, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 11513-11520, doi:10.5194/acp-15-11513-2015, 2015. [link]
