This project will deliver improvements in the modeling of wildfire processes and their impacts on air quality, weather, and climate

The Trustees of Princeton University, through its Office of Research and Project Administration, was awarded a $753,047 Cooperative Agreement by the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The funding is provided under NOAA's Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405), which facilitates cooperation between government, university, and nonprofit institutions to increase the effectiveness of environmental science research and education.

The purpose of this 4-year project is to improve the modeling of wildfire processes and their impacts on air quality, weather, and climate. Key objectives include implementing and evaluating new dynamic fire simulation capabilities within NOAA's GFDL AM4.1 atmospheric model to enhance research, development, and operational performance of earth system models in representing wildfire-related air quality and climate effects.

This project will create new modeling capabilities to investigate the role of wildfires in air quality, climate, and the carbon cycle. The key benefits will be a better understanding of wildfire chemistry, interaction, and propagation of wildfires, impacts on health, and the carbon cycle. Specifically, work will be to implement and evaluate a new capability for simulating dynamic fires and their gas and aerosol emissions into gfdl's atmospheric model AM4.1 (atmospheric component of gfdl's earth system model ESM4.1) to improve research and development, and earth system atmospheric composition models to enhance wildfire-related air quality and climate performance.