Sharon Alden This is Me

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1. 1. www.alaskareport.com

   www.alaskareport.com/science10 - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/5/2007   Last Visited: 3/15/2007

   Sharon Alden is a potential customer of the new service. A meteorologist for the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center at Fort Wainwright, she helps firefighters by giving them detailed weather briefings. During the fire season, she could use some specific information that's not currently available but might be lurking in the data already gathered by researchers and technicians.
   
   "I'd like to know the persistence of (weather) patterns that could bring us fire danger - a pattern that causes lightning or fire starts in remote areas - or patterns that would eliminate fire danger," Alden said.
   
   She'd also like to see monthly average upper-level wind patterns over Alaska and the north Pacific.
   
   "That would be pretty cool," she said.
   
   Alden said someone at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center or Climate Diagnostic Center might be able to produce the latter product, while a local grad student or someone else funded by the new project might be able to work out predictions of how persistent fire-weather patterns will be.

2. 2. HeraldNet: Alaska wildfires more frequent

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   Published on: 4/21/2006   Last Visited: 4/22/2006

   Sharon Alden, meteorologist for the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center, forecasts above-normal fire potential on the Kenai Peninsula this year because of dry grasses and beetle-killed spruce.

3. 3. News-Miner - Past News

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   Published on: 6/14/2005   Last Visited: 6/15/2005

   The forecast for the rest of June calls for warmer-than-average temperatures with no reduction in the fire danger in the northeast corner of the state, said Sharon Alden, fire weather program manager at the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center.