Intercomparison of Fire Size, Fuel Loading, Fuel Consumption, and Smoke Emissions Estimates on the 2006 Tripod Fire, Washington, USA

Fire Ecology

Table 5 Smoke emissions data for the Tripod Fire Complex based on seven different vegetation maps.

	NFDRS (1 km)		Hardy98 (1 km)		FCCS1 (1 km)		FCCS2 (1 km)		FCCS2 30m)		LANDFIRE FLM (30 m)		Ok Wen (25 m)
Number of pixels	765.0		765.0		738.0		758.0		787 080.0		787 080.0		1 539 935.0
Hectares	70 483.0		70 483.0		71 100.0		71 350.0		70 837.0		70 837.0		64 994.0
Fuel loading (Mg)	2 718 590.0		4 931 377.0		6 315 591.0		8 792 675.0		7 875 389.0		3 017 456.0		8 367 184.0
Fuel loading (Mg ha⁻¹)	38.6		69.9		88.8		123.3		111.2		42.6		128.7
Fire effects model	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM
Fuel consumption (Mg)	2 446 474	2 103 904	4 254 480	3 014 607	4 328 785	3 182 544	5 774 189	4 504 178	5 139 838	4 084 608	2 132 086	1 796 054	5 585 824	4 397 196
Fuel consumption (Mg ha⁻¹)	34.7	29.8	60.3	42.8	61.0	44.8	80.9	63.2	72.6	57.6	30.0	25.3	85.9	67.7
Emissions
Fire effects model	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM	Consume	FOFEM
CH₄ (Mg ha⁻¹)	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.6	0.2	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.3	0.5	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.6
CO₂ (Mg ha⁻¹)	45.4	43.8	74.6	54.1	73.1	63.7	97.5	89.1	87.7	81.6	37.8	35.9	105.6	95.9
CO (Mg ha⁻¹)	2.2	5.2	5.0	12.0	4.8	8.8	6.9	12.8	6.2	11.6	2.3	5.1	7.1	13.6
PM₁₀ (Mg ha⁻¹)	0.3	0.5	0.6	1.1	0.6	0.8	0.9	1.2	0.8	1.1	0.3	0.5	0.9	1.3
PM_2.5 (Mg ha⁻¹)	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.9	0.5	0.7	0.7	1.0	0.6	0.9	0.2	0.4	0.7	1.1
PM (Mg ha⁻¹)	0.5		0.9		0.9		1.2		1.1		0.4		1.3
NMHC (Mg ha⁻¹)	0.1		0.2		0.2		0.3		0.3		0.1		0.4
NO_x (Mg ha⁻¹)		0.04		0.00		0.04		0.10		0.10		0.02		0.10
SO₂ (Mg ha⁻¹)		0.02		0.04		0.04		0.10		0.10		0.02		0.10