Multiscale Wildfire Simulation Framework and Remote Sensing

Executive Summary

Current wildfire simulation capabilities suffer from spatiotemporal resolutions that are too coarse, as well as chemistry and aerosol representations of smoke that are too simple to capture important processes needed to accurately predict the effects of wildfires. We will develop a global, multiscale, wildfire simulation framework with improved chemistry and aerosol representations and a new high-resolution wildfire emission database, which will improve remote sensing and modeling capabilities for wildfires, including their impact on climate change.

Publications, Presentations, and Patents

Chang, Alex, Huikyo Lee, Rong Fu, and Qi Tang. 2023. “A Seamless Approach for Evaluating Climate Models Across Spatial Scales.” Frontiers in Earth Science, accepted.

Chen, Yang, Stijn Hantson, Niels Andela, Shane R. Coffield, Casey A. Graff, Douglas C. Morton, Lesley E. Ott, et al. 2022. “California Wildfire Spread Derived Using VIIRS Satellite Observations and an Object-Based Tracking System.” Scientific Data 9 (1): 249. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01343-0.

Ke Ziming, Qi Tang, Jishi Zhang, Yang Chen, and James T. Randerson, “Simulating 2020 Creek Fire with Cloud-Resolving E3SM and High-Resolution Satellite Observations” (Presentation, The Meteorology and Climate - Modeling for Air Quality Conference, Davis, CA, 2023).

Hsiang-He, Lee, Katherine A. Lundquist, and Qi Tang, “Pyrocumulonimbus Events over British Columbia in 2017: An Ensemble Model Study on Injection Parameters and Climate Impacts of Fire Smoke in the Stratosphere” (Presentation, 102nd AMS Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, 2022).

———. 2023a. “Climate Impacts of Wildfire Smoke in the Stratosphere: Pyrocumulonimbus Events over British Columbia in 2017” (Presentation, AMS annual meeting, Denver, CO), 2023.

———. 2023b. “Pyrocumulonimbus Events Over British Columbia in 2017: An Ensemble Model Study of Parameter Sensitivities and Climate Impacts of Wildfire Smoke in the Stratosphere.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128 (2): e2022JD037648. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037648.

Martin, Zane K., Isla R. Simpson, Pu Lin, Clara Orbe, Qi Tang, Julie M. Caron, Chih-Chieh Chen, et al. 2023. “The Lack of a QBO-MJO Connection in Climate Models With a Nudged Stratosphere.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128 (17): e2023JD038722. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038722.

Qin, Yi, Qi Tang, Yongkang Xue, Ye Liu, and Yanluan Lin. 2023. “Improved Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Precipitation Prediction of Climate Models with Nudging Approach for Better Initialization of Tibetan Plateau-Rocky Mountain Circumglobal Wave Train and Land Surface Conditions” Climate Dynamics, In revision.

Qi Tang, 2023a. “The Fully Coupled Regionally Refined Model of E3SMv2: Overview of the Atmosphere, Land, and River Results” (Presentation, E3SM All-Hands meeting, Denver, CO) 2023.

———. 2023b. “Wildfire Simulation with E3SM RRM and Satellite Remote Sensing” (Presentation, Tri-Labs Climate Security Workshop, Sandia National Laboratories, NM, 2023).

Tang, Qi, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Luke P. Van Roekel, Mark A. Taylor, Wuyin Lin, Benjamin R. Hillman, Paul A. Ullrich, et al. 2023. “The Fully Coupled Regionally Refined Model of E3SM Version 2: Overview of the Atmosphere, Land, and River Results.” Geoscientific Model Development 16 (13): 3953–95. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3953-2023.

Qi, Tang, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Luke P. Van Roekel, Mark Taylor, Wuyin Lin, and Benjamin R. Hillman,“The Fully Coupled Regionally Refined Model of E3SM Version 2: Overview of Atmosphere, Land, and River” (Presentation, AGU annual meeting, Chicago, IL, 2022).

Qi Tang, Michael J. Prather, Juno Hsu, Hsiang-He Lee, Philip J. Cameron-Smith, Shaocheng Xie, Wuyin Lin, Mingxuan Wu, and Hailong Wang, “Initial Results from Interactive Atmospheric Chemistry in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model” (Presentation, 102nd AMS Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, 2022).

Qi Tang, Jishi Zhang, Ziming Ke, Jinbo Xie, Wuyin Lin, Hsiang-He Lee, and Peter A. Bogenschutz. 2023. “Merging Convection-Permitting Resolution and Interactive Chemistry and Aerosols: Initial Results from a New Global Multiscale Wildfire Simulation Framework” (Presentation, AMS Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 2023).

Wu, Mingxuan, Hailong Wang, Richard C. Easter, Zheng Lu, Xiaohong Liu, Balwinder Singh, Po-Lun Ma, et al. 2022. “Development and Evaluation of E3SM-MOSAIC: Spatial Distributions and Radiative Effects of Nitrate Aerosol.” Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14 (11): e2022MS003157. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003157.

Xie, Jinbo, Qi Tang, Jean-Christophe Golaz, and Wuyin Lin. 2023. “Record High 2022 September Heatwave in the Western North America.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, In revision.

Zhang, Jishi, Qi Tang, Peter Caldwell, Peter A. Bogenschutz, and Jean-Christophe Golaz, “Using a 3 Km Regionally Refined Mesh (RRM) over California to Examine EAMv2 vs SCREAMv0 Physics” (Presentation, E3SM All-Hands meeting, Denver, CO, 2023).

Zhang, Jishi, Qi Tang, Ziming Ke, and Peter A. Bogenschutz, “Multiscale Convection-Permitting Wildfire Simulation over California: 2020 Creek Fire” (Presentation,13th International Conference on Carbonaceous Particles in the Atmosphere, Berkeley, CA, 2023).