Fire Observation and Simulation: Advances, Methods, and Emerging Applications
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 August 2026 | Viewed by 6
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wildfire modeling; theoretical turbulence; computational fluid dynamics; high-performance computing; data assimilation; deep learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to bring together recent advances that improve our understanding of fire–atmosphere interactions and their implications for fire behavior, plume development, smoke dispersion, and related atmospheric processes. We invite contributions that integrate observations, modeling, and simulation to investigate the coupled dynamics between fires and the surrounding atmosphere in wildland context. The rapid progress made in observational technologies—including ground-based sensors, UAV platforms, satellite products, and IoT-enabled monitoring systems—now provides new opportunities to quantify the multi-scale processes governing fire–atmosphere coupling. In parallel, advances in physics-based fire models, coupled atmosphere–fire systems, and artificial-intelligence-assisted simulation frameworks offer promising pathways to improve prediction capabilities and enhance situational awareness during real fire events. Studies that combine or compare these approaches, or that evaluate their performance across different fire regimes, are particularly encouraged. Submissions that promote collaboration among fire science, atmospheric research, numerical modeling, remote sensing, and risk management communities are highly valued, especially when they provide new insights into feedback mechanisms, microscale flow structures, or emerging observational and modeling challenges. We welcome original research articles, reviews, methodological or technical communications, short letters presenting new findings, and applied or operational case studies relevant to fire–atmosphere interactions.
Dr. Sofiane Meradji
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fire–atmosphere interactions
- coupled fire–atmosphere modeling
- wildland fire dynamics
- fire weather and feedbacks
- fire plume dynamics and smoke dispersion
- remote sensing of fires
- UAV and satellite observations
- physics-based fire models
- data-driven fire modeling
- AI-assisted fire prediction
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