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Dear CF community,
I have taken over from the original poster on the subject of new
standard names for fire area, fire temperature, and fire radiative power.
Area, in this context, is meant to be in terms of different types of
biomass that are climatically and geographically defined (e.g.,
grasslands, forest, etc.).
These definitions have been slightly amended from the originally posting
as follows:
_Fire_Area_
Standard Name: fire_area
Definition: The X_area means the horizontal area occupied by X within
the grid cell. "Fire area" means the area of detected biomass fire.
Canonical units: m^2
_Fire_Temperature_
Standard_Name: fire_temperature
Definition: The overall temperature of a fire area due to contributions
from smoldering and flaming components.
Canonical units: K
_Fire_Radiative_Power_
Standard_Name: fire_radiative_power
Definition: The product of the irradiance of a fire scene and the
corresponding fire area.
Canonical units: W
With regards to this last item, radiative power is sufficient for our
needs.
Sincerely,
Gary
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Gary Meehan
Senior Staff Scientist
Atmospheric and Environmental Research
131 Hartwell Avenue, Lexington, MA 02421-3126
Tel (781) 761-2228 • Fax (781) 761-2299
e-mail: [email protected]
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