dr. craig clements. dr. g clements/san jose state university "....the benifit of having these observations real close to the fire front allows researchers to understand how fires create their own weather and how they react with the local atmosphere and winds and these are things that cant be measured with standard networks..."clements envisions a day when a smaller version of the fire weather lab could be standard equipment on every fire engine, collecting envauable real-time data from the front lines. dr. craig clements "....so those data could then be transmitted via wi-fi or satellite and ingested into a fire behavior modeling system to better predict the fire propigation..."which in turn could help with decisions about deploying resources or whether to order evacuations. it feels good to be part of the only such fire weather lab in the country says team member jackson yip. jackson brewer ".....the more a fire burns the more people are at risk and being able to get it under control as fast as possible coul

dr. craig clements. dr. ts/san jose state university "....the benifit of having these observations real close to the fire front allows researchers to understand how fires create their own weather and how they react with the local atmosphere and winds and these are things that cant be measured with standard networks..."clements envisions a day when a smaller version of the fire weather lab could be standard equipment on every fire engine, collecting envauable real-time data from the front lines. dr. craig clements "....so those data could then be transmitted via wi-fi or satellite and ingested into a fire behavior modeling system to better predict the fire propigation..."which in turn could help with decisions about deploying resources or whether to order evacuations. it feels good to be part of the only such fire weather lab in the country says team member jackson yip. jackson brewer ".....the more a fire burns the more people are at risk and being able to get it under control as fast as possible could save l

dr. craig clements/san jose state university "...generally, fire weather is defined as hot, dry and windyse state university's fire weather research lab. i asked him to explain what is meant when firefighters say that wildfires create theirown weather.dr. craig clementsfrom their one of a kind mobile lab, clements and his students went to the front lines of the car fire where they observed and studied fire behavior that included a rare tornado-like phenomenon. dr. craig clements/san jose state universitythe fire weather lab is now analyzing the data it collected. their research could help firefighterspredict fire behavior and that could save lives. in san jose rob fladeboe kron4news < two backpacks a purse a bunch of electronics and a bunch of personal itemsthere is one area in san francisco what on average has one reported auto break-in everyday where is it and what's being done to stop it? i'll explain in the next edition of people behaving badly > (ácommercialá) (dave)a weak shortwave and an approaching upper trough will weaken the high pressure over the desert southwest resulting in s

dr. craig clements/san jose state university "...generally, fire weather is defined as hot, dry and windy..."craig clements is the founder of san jose state university's fire weather research lab. i asked him to explain what is meant when firefighters say that wildfires create theirown weather.dr. craig clementsfrom their one of a kind mobile lab, clements and his students went to the front lines of the car fire where they observed and studied fire behavior that included a rare tornado-like phenomenon.dr. craig clements/san jose state universitythe fire weather lab is now analyzing the data it collected. their research could help firefighterspredict fire behavior and that could save lives.in san jose rob fladeboe kron4news (ken) coming up... it happened again-- police were called on a young girl selling cookies and water... where it happened and what neighbors were upset about... (vicki) plus... the search is on for an armed and dangerous murder suspect in the east bay... we'll show you who they are looking (ken) and after the break... why a high school in the east bay is making changes t

dr. craig clements moved in with ru in search of data. the instruments on board are a mobile atmospheric profiling system. they gather weather data to help forecast wildfires under type mick conditions. >> our goal is to better measure and observe the wildland fire environment, take those data to basically tune the models. >> he is talking about computer simulation models that will help to predict how fast fires will move and how intense they will be. the carr fire created a tornado rarely captured on video that is an important case study. it was created by unusual conditions, triple-digit temperatures and single digit humidity. the tornado generated hurricane-force winds up to 165 miles an hour. and temperatures topping 2700 degrees fahrenheit. he is amazed the extent of the damage the tornado created, wrapping utility poles around trees while sheering off trunks. >> it's moving in multiple directions because of the circulation. that's why fire whirls and fire tornadoes and rotating columns are dangerous. >> it may take five years clemen

dr. craig clements moved in with this truck in search of data.ts onboard are a profiling system. they gather weather data to help forecast the behavior of wildfires under dynamic weather conditions. >> our goal is to better measure and observe the wild land fire environment. take those data to basically tune the model. >> reporter: he's talking about computer simulation models that will help to predict how fast fires will move and how intense they will be. the carr fire created a tornado rarely captured on video that is an important case study. he was created by unusual conditions and triple digits temperatures and single digit. hume inity. the temperatures topping 2700 degrees fahrenheit. he's amazed by the extent of damage the tornado creating f ff whirls and bushing like matchsticks. >> it's moving in a circulation so that's why fire whirls and fre tornadoes can rotating columns are dangerous. >> it may take five years, dr. clements believes, before they have enough data to produce reliable fire forecasts. >> we're on the verge of developing t