Narasimhan Larkin

Background

About Narasimhan Larkin

Dr. Larkin conducts research in applied climatology and fire emissions and air quality, with emphasis on the application of data analysis, statistical methods and scientific visualization. His primary research topics include analysis of wildland fire-climate and fire-air quality relationships and applications product development for wildland fire management planning, decision-making and policy. Dr. Larkin is the original designer of the BlueSky Modeling Framework used around the world for real-time and retrospective smoke modeling, and the creator of the SmartFire2 system used by the U.S. EPA and other agencies for fire activity and emissions inventory development. He created and led the Smoke and Emissions Modeling Intercomparison Project for the Joint Fire Science Program, an on-going effort to provide a mechanism for testing, comparing, and assessing developments within fuels, consumption, emissions, plume rise, and smoke modeling. He is a frequently invited speaker on fire-air quality issues. Dr. Larkin has also served on graduate committees at both the Desert Research Institute and the University of Washington.