Session Fire weather and Public Safety Power Shutoff forecasting


Description:

Several electric utilities are now required to implement Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) in response to elevated fire weather conditions. This topic should solicit presentations that example current forecast and monitoring practices in response to elevated fire weather conditions as well as ongoing research to improve forecast and monitoring capabilities and develop new technologies. Talks on PSPS decision making processes and workflow by meteorologists would also be relevant.


Papers:
A Deep Learning Approach to Building Real Time Diagnostics of Fire Weather Risk in Southern California
Charles Jones, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and C. F. Thompson, D. M. Siuta, D. Seto, and N. Sette

Assessment of Fire Danger for the Italian Power Utilities using the MERIDA HRES Reanalysis
Filippo D'Amico, RSE S.p.A., Milano, MI, Italy; and F. Viterbo, R. Bonanno, E. Collino, and M. Lacavalla

Submission Deadline: Thursday, 31 August 2023