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Learning to Use FOFEM 5 Volume I: Basic Lesson

Learning to Use FOFEM 5 Volume I: Basic Lesson. Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory Systems for Environmental Management. In the Basic Lesson…. Background information Discussion of FOFEM modules, inputs and outputs Step-by-step exercises Saving a FOFEM project and FOFEM outputs.

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Learning to Use FOFEM 5 Volume I: Basic Lesson

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  1. Learning to Use FOFEM 5Volume I: Basic Lesson Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory Systems for Environmental Management Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  2. In the Basic Lesson… • Background information • Discussion of FOFEM modules, inputs and outputs • Step-by-step exercises • Saving a FOFEM project and FOFEM outputs Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  3. In the Advanced Lesson… • Advanced use of soil heating and Burnup modules • Batch mode: making many runs at once • Linking FOFEM to GIS Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  4. What is a “first-order” effect? • “First-order fire effects” are the immediate consequences of a fire, whether direct or indirect. • FOFEM 5 predicts: • Fuel consumption • Smoke production • Tree mortality • Soil heating • Second-order effects? • Longer term effects and effects involving interaction with other agents, like erosion, vegetation dynamics, insect-caused mortality, and climate change. • Modeled with VDDT, LANDSUM, SIMPPLE, TELSA, FFE-FVS and other models Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  5. How FOFEM works • FOFEM 5 is a compendium of models for predicting fire effects • FOFEM 5 helps the user generate inputs for those models from • Detailed fuel and stand inventory data • General forest type information • A combination of these two sources • FOFEM 5 automatically uses the best available equation or model Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  6. These modules have similar inputs FOFEM 5 modules • Mortality • Fuel consumption • Smoke • Soil heating Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  7. Choose region Set fire severity Select “mortality” Define tree list Set fire intensity Tree mortality: inputs Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  8. Tree mortality: outputs • Chart and text report of % mortality over a range of “fire intensity” for each tree in the list Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  9. Tree mortality: exercise • In Windows Explorer, open the file FOFEM5tutorials.chm • Navigate to the Tree Mortality exercise • Use Alt-Tab or the task bar to switch between the tutorial and FOFEM as needed Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  10. Select “Fuel” Direct input of load by size class Fuel Consumption: inputs • Fuel load by size class and component • Direct input OR, Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  11. Select classifica-tion and region Select cover type Select fuel category Set fuel load adjustments Fuel Consumption: inputs • Fuel load by size class and component • Based on fuel or vegetation type classification (SAF/SRM, NVCS, FCC), fuel or cover type, region, fuel type (natural, slash or piles), and adjustment. Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  12. Set percent crown fuel burned Set season of burn Set percent 3”+ load that is rotten Set log loading distribution Fuel Consumption: inputs • Fuel load by size class and component • In both cases, Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  13. FOFEM 5 default Fuel Consumption: inputs • Fuel load by size class and component • Log loading distribution even Left right ends center Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  14. Choose moisture condition Fuel Consumption: inputs • Fuel moisture • Moisture condition (very dry, dry, moderate, wet) OR, Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  15. Direct input of moisture content Fuel Consumption: inputs • Fuel moisture • Direct input (10-hr, 1000-hr, duff moisture) Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  16. Set duff moisture method Fuel Consumption: inputs • Duff moisture method • entire duff profile, lower duff only, NFDR, Adjusted NFDR Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  17. Fuel Consumption: outputs • Chart and report of pre-burn and post-burn fuel load and fuel consumption by size class and component. Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  18. Fuel Consumption: exercise • In Windows Explorer, open the file FOFEM5tutorials.chm • Navigate to the Fuel Consumption exercise • Use Alt-Tab or the task bar to switch between the tutorial and FOFEM as needed Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  19. Select “Smoke” Smoke emissions: inputs • Smoke inputs are the same as fuel consumption Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  20. Select an output to plot on the graph Smoke emissions: outputs • Graph and tabular report of smoke production by component. Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  21. Smoke emissions: outputs • Can save emissions and intensity history for use in smoke dispersion model (NFS-PUFF, SASEM, SIS). Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  22. Smoke emissions: exercise • In Windows Explorer, open the file FOFEM5tutorials.chm • Navigate to the Smoke Emissions exercise • Use Alt-Tab or the task bar to switch between the tutorial and FOFEM as needed Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  23. Select “Soil” Choose soil texture Set soil moisture content (percent) Soil heating: inputs • Soil heating inputs are the same as fuel consumption, with two additions… Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  24. Soil heating: outputs • Graph and tabular report of soil heating by depth. Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  25. Soil heating: exercise • In Windows Explorer, open the file FOFEM5tutorials.chm • Navigate to the Soil Heating exercise • Use Alt-Tab or the task bar to switch between the tutorial and FOFEM as needed Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

  26. Basic lesson: conclusion • FOFEM 5 combines well-tested physical and empirical models with expert knowledge to predict the immediate effects of fire on • Tree mortality • Fuel consumption • Smoke emissions • Soil heating • FOFEM 5 creates reports, graphs and data tables that can be incorporated into other documents Learning to Use FOFEM 5: Basic Lesson

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