NOAA introduces the RRFS-Smoke model, a new tool that predicts the movement of wildfire smoke and its impact on air quality.

With smoke from western wildfires poised to spread from coast to coast this week, people will be looking to a NOAA smoke model for guidance on everything from how it might impact their area, to the ...

Well, other than staying indoors, there is no getting away from it completely, but there are areas that have lighter concentrations of smoke. A computer forecast model shows those spots. A computer ...

The wildfires out West are spewing another big patch of smoke into the Midwest. The smoke is going to cover Michigan’s skies also very shortly. One of our best weather models, the High Resolution ...

I talked with a modeling expert at NOAA about how our best weather models handle the smoky sky. Not all of our favorite weather models have modules in them to forecast the motion and thickness of ...

Many of the most advanced climate models simulate smoke that is darker, or more light absorbing, than what researchers see in observations. A study of biomass burning aerosols led by University of ...

The Friday model shows the sooty air moving southward from the fire in Mariposa County into the San Joaquin Valley Wednesday afternoon and overnight. As an upper-level ridge of high pressure starts to ...

We have polls to try to gauge public opinion. We have models to forecast atmospheric conditions. Sometimes they’re wrong. Just as pollsters sometimes fail to correctly predict elections, weather and ...