Post-Fire: Assessing Downstream Effects on Hydrology and Water Quality (Thomas Fire)
- Visualizations by:
- Greg Shirah
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This visualization starts with a wide view of the West Coast of the United States. Regions that experienced fire are shown with red outlines. The camera then zooms in to the Thomas Fire in Southern California. This fire burned about 280,000 acres near Santa Barbara between December 2017 and January 2018. The visualization shows the extent of the fire with a red outline. Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) soil burn severity data is shown followed by the impact on evapotranspiration, then fire radiative power. The camera then zooms into a region near the coast and shows debris data (depicted as black areas with diagonal white lines).
Credits
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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Visualizers
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) [Lead]
- Michala Garrison (SSAI)
Scientists
- Chris Hain (NASA/MSFC)
- Elijah Orland (UMBC)
- Forrest Melton (California State University, Monterey Bay)
- Sujay Kumar (NASA/GSFC)
- Thomas Holmes (NASA/GSFC)
- Timothy Lahmers (UMD)
Producer
- Kim Locke (SAIC)
Datasets used in this visualization
Evapotranspiration
Evapotranspiration data were retrieved for the DisALEXI model from OpenET (openetdata.org) under a CCBY4.0 open data license.
Credit: Melton, F., Huntington, J., Grimm, R., Herring, J., Hall, M., Rollison, D., Erickson, T., Allen, R., Anderson, M., Fisher, J., Kilic, A., Senay, G., volk, J., Hain, C., Johnson, L., Ruhoff, A., Blanenau, P., Bromley, M., Carrara, W., Daudert, B., Doherty, C., Dunkerly, C., Friedrichs, M., Guzman, A., Halverson, G., Hansen, J., Harding, J., Kang, Y., Ketchum, D., Minor, B., Morton, C., Ortega-Salazar, S., Ott, T., Ozdogon, M., Schull, M., Wang, T., Yang, Y., Anderson, R., 2021. OpenET: Filling a Critical Data Gap in Water Management for the Western United States. Journal of the American Water
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