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Wildland Fire Air Quality Tools Portal

Help pages


This site contains/will contain number of different help and tutorial functions. Help pages on each product are now available. A FAQ is under development, and online tutorials are also being developed. Please watch this space for updates. Note that the help features are being hosted on an external website (airfire.org) to enable rapid development.

Please help us improve these pages! Send us your feedback, suggestions, etc... In particular we are looking for examples of how these tools were used in real-world situations. Write up your example (MS Word doc is ideal) and send it to us and we'll put it up here.

  • View complete list of help resources

  • Introduction
    • Basics of the portal (START HERE)
    • Output matrix of available products

  • Help pages by tool
    • National FCAMMS Point Forecast product
    • National FCAMMS Regional Maps product
    • RAWS Station Wind Roses product
    • Ventilation Climate Information System statistics
    • AirNow Current Conditions products
    • SMARTFIRE maps and trajectories tool
    • BlueSky Playground tool
    • Air Quality Impacts Planning Tool (AQUIPT)

  • Glossary of output product terms

  • Additional help features coming soon: tutorials, collected examples, FAQ, and more. (see complete list for up-to-date information)

See also the about page for more information on the purpose of the site and 1 pagers describing its functioning.

We'd like to hear from you!. Please see the contact page for the best methods to reach us.