Cal Fires 2018

Paradise or Camp Fire Nov 8, 2018
Initialized at 0Z 7 Nov 2018

Post-Fire Photos

  1. 1854 photo
  2. 15062 photo, hill top
  3. 17290 photo, 39.769, -121.554
  4. 19909 SEofJarboGapRAWS
  5. 18166 SWofJarboGapRAWS
  6. 17316 WofJarboGapRAWS

Other Web pages

  1. camp_fire_maxgustdir_terrain.html
  2. camp_fire_maxgustdir_terrain_big.html
  3. camp_fire_wgustdir_terrain.html
  4. camp_fire_wgustdir_terrain2.html
  5. Historical fires 2000-2017
  6. historical_fires_2000-2018_terrain_by_year.html
  7. historical_fires2000-2018_terrain.html
  8. historical_fires_2000-2017_terrain.html
  9. historical_fires_2000-2018_absurdlybig.html
  10. historical_fires_1950-2017.html

New figures

  1. Model and observed winds compared and to loop all those plots, click here.

Paper figures

DescriptionFigure
Fig. 2 Butte County Hisotrical Fires LATEST, BEST, Self-created source, montage_fig2_new.png
Self-created source, montage_fig2_new.jpg
From other source montage_paper_fig2.jpg
Fig. 3 maximum wind gust for 8-9 Nov 2018 LATEST version
previous version
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Fig. 4 Peak gusts for 6 times 8-9 Nov 2018 red asterisk showing where fire started
has only one big color bar at right		 LATEST version
montage_paper_fig10.jpg
with Jarbo Gap and Paradise outline
montage_paper_fig10old.jpg
Fig. 5 one-day time series of Jarbo Gap temperature, peak wind speed and direction LATEST version with all units
paper_fig5_temp_winds.final.png
Fig. 6 one-year time series of Jarbo Gap temperature, peak winds, relative humidity, and 10-h dead fuel moistureLATEST version paper_fig6_temp_wind_rh_fuel.final.png
Fig. 9 6-panel observed and 4/3-km modeled soundings at Reno LATEST version
version 2
small
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old big
old, too small
Fig. 11 Solar radiation time series at Jarbo Gap, Santa Rosa and San Jose RAWS sitesLATEST paper_fig5.jpg
Fig. 12 Temperature bias (Celsius) 0Z on Nov 8, 10, and 12 2018LATEST montage_paper_fig6.jpg
Fig. 14 2 panel plot of comparing model-predicted and observed winds, temperature, and relative humidity at Jarbo Gap LATEST, final version
small version
small version 1 legend
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Fig. 15 4-panel 12-km modeled 925 temps, SLP, and 10m winds LATEST now showing RAWS sites and Reno
loop with old version
Fig. 16 4-panel 444m modeled Max winds within 250m AGL also has cross section location, and upstream sounding locationLATEST
Fig 17 4/3-km domain RH over terrain LATEST, RH <= 40% over black and white terrain
previous color scheme
same as above but at lowest model level instead of 2m
montage_paper_fig16.jpg
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loop version 4 tests
Fig. 18 Four-panel vertical cross sections of wind speed through ParadiseLATEST
Fig. 19 4/3-km domain soundings at Upstream location LATEST, version 4, times in bottom left plus letters upper left
version 1
version 2
version 3, times in bottom left
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Fig. 20 Sacramento Drainage Precip and Temperature LATEST
Second version with all units
Fig. 22 HRRR winds and surface wind gusts LATEST
similar but scale in m/s
High resolution terrain and cross section location fig19.gif
new version, adds Chico and lat/lon with color bar right
3rd version, adds Chico and lat/lon with color bar below

High-res research runs

loop test

Table 1. New Plots
DomainProductHourCase