Wildland Fire Weather: Multi-Agency Portfolio of Current and In-development Capabilities to Support User Needs.

摘要

In June 2005, the Western Governors Association (WGA) approved Policy Resolution 05-04, which called for better coordination of existing research programs in wildland fire weather and additional research to improve decisions support for those charged with protecting the public and the nation's natural resources from wildland fire threats. The resolution also urged the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to complete a National Needs Assessment Report, by NOAA's Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM), of Federal, state, and local fire managers needs for weather information in their wildfire and prescribed fire decisionmaking processes and a framework to meet those needs by NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) and the multi-agency Predictive Services Units. In response to WGA Resolution 05-04, the OFCM established the Joint Action Group for National Wildland Fire Weather Needs Assessment (JAG/NWFWNA) to undertake a users' needs assessment, covering the full range of stakeholders in the national wildland fire weather community, for weather and climate information in wildland fire decisionmaking.