[119] If you think predicting the weather is hard, try predicting wildfires

Wildfires are deadly and expensive, but also natural and inevitable. One key to living with wildfires while reducing their harm is to predict them with computer models. In some ways that is even harder than predicting the weather, because the weather forecast is only one piece of a good wildfire prediction! Join NCAR scientist Jason Knievel to explore how weather affects wildfires and how wildfires affect weather. He will also describe new modeling technology called the Colorado Fire Prediction System, which NCAR recently developed for the state of Colorado.

Season 1: 2020/2021 Meet the Experts Program, Episode 19

Jason Knievel, Research Applications Laboratory (RAL), NCAR