PCU 2: Assess the Fire Environment
Monitor and analyze the fire environment to anticipate and identify critical fire weather patterns, fuels, and topography.
Job Task Skills and Knowledge:
- Apply fire environment information when creating forecasts
- Maintain a basic understanding of fire danger rating systems and drought indices
- Identify and assess critical fire weather patterns, conditions and climatology
- Identify and assess weather regimes in complex terrain including diurnal and local effects
- Develop a work environment that provides strong fire weather situational awareness
- Analyze and integrate remote sensing tools for both meteorology and fuels related information
- Obtain fuels and fire danger data from multiple sources
- Demonstrate the ability to add value to gridded forecast datasets
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