Will national smoke forecasting be ready for the next big fire?

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العنوان: Will national smoke forecasting be ready for the next big fire?
المؤلفون: Peddie, Clare
المصدر: Cosmos Weekly; 2/3/2023, Issue 90, p10-10, 1p
مصطلحات موضوعية: SMOKE, FLOOD warning systems, FORECASTING, FOREST fires
مستخلص: At the start of the summer, Harris says, there were nowarnings or forecasts about incoming bushfire smoke, so heand his wife would "monitor every Facebook page or feed orstate government website" for air quality data. Earth After the devastating Black Summer of 2019-20, CSIRO andBOM have been developing a national smoke forecastingsystem to help Aussies avoid breathing bad air. The existing AQFx system provides six-day fire weatherforecasts, 24-60 hour detailed air pollution forecasts, andnext-day prescribed burn smoke forecasts for Victoria andmore recently, New South Wales. [Extracted from the article]
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