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* <s>Restart</s> done
:''Main article: [[WRF-SFIRE user guide]]. To get the software now, see [[How to get WRF-SFIRE]].''
* Read the topography from a file in an ideal run
 
* <s>Smoothing the terrain gradients for fire spread</s> Input gradient rather than terrain height so that the gradient can be smoothly interpolated in preprocessing.
This page tracks activity in the [[WRF-Fire]] and related software development. All members of the community are welcome to [[Open Wildland Fire Modeling E community Wiki#How to get an account|get an account]] and [http://www.openwfm.org/w/index.php5?title=WRF-Fire_development_notes&action=edit edit].
* Canopy fire
 
* Output to WRF-Chem
===2004===
* Better quadrature for fuel left
 
* Gradual ignition from a point or a line, without limitation on the initial radius
* Ned Patton and Janice Coen propose WRF-Fire in a [http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/workshop/ws04/Session9/Patton_Edward.pdf workshop paper]  and formulate the fundamental principles of how to combine WRF with the fire spread model from [[CAWFE]].
* <s>Walking line ignition (as the fireman walks igniting the fire)</s> done24 May 2010
 
===2005===
 
* Standalone fire model from CAWFE rewritten in F90 received from Ned Patton Mar 31 2005.
 
===2006===
 
* John Michalakes writes specs for support of fire grids in WRF Feb 6 2006
 
===2007===
 
* Alternative implementation of fire grid in nested domains in WRF by Jon Beezley Feb 29 2007
* '''WRF-Fire start''': WRF+CAWFE tracers code received from Ned Patton became the {{WRF-Fire-commit|b7ed4f2e4cd729c659d086efb86ecaca74919ff8|initial commit}} in the WRF-Fire git repository set up by Jon Beezley Jun 6 2007
* Matlab prototype of level set method working Aug 30, 2007
* Imported a modular rewrite with a new standalone level set code, called SFIRE {{WRF-Fire-commit|7b72b87820be21e0febba943f7325e66839016e5|Sep 5 2007}}
* WRF+spread by level set coupled code working {{WRF-Fire-commit|c073b70ef91f4458092cf0a7ecf9163aed5860ea|Nov 2 2007}}
* Ignition controlled from namelist {{WRF-Fire-commit|2439f24ff443ec18c5ff5812af456de30fb24636|Dec 24 2007}}
 
===2008===
* Change nodes on the fire mesh from corners to centers {{WRF-Fire-commit|af413df0557a49ca56db20ff3436b14c7bccee21|Feb 10 2008}}
* WPS support {{WRF-Fire-commit|94a84b5b0170d8771102ff7fe25040a716268caf|3 Aug 2008}}
* Github repository https://openwfm/wrf-fire created [https://api.github.com/repos/openwfm/wrf-fire Oct 10, 2008]
* MPI support {{WRF-Fire-commit|0509e9b746cf671922f1db96667d7f52ab947563|Oct 23 2008}}
* Cleanup, delete standalone driver and the CAWFE tracer code {{WRF-Fire-commit|a3f839e50ebcf7e068c8aa0266401220bc09f2ec|Nov 18 2008}}
* Landfire data conversion {{WRF-Fire-commit|932a2d8b3e926bb193b2af07c1ba6410aa0e7e01|Dec 15 2008}}
 
===2009===
* Distributed memory (halos) {{WRF-Fire-commit|0b5a20e6d0c88a1771a781c57307df252a213a7b|Jan 7 2009}}
* Approved for release by UCD and NCAR under WRF public domain notice {{WRF-Fire-commit|76fac8823d0a81920de150a1061b95cd7717b0a9|Mar 17 2009}}
* Set up nested ideal case {{WRF-Fire-commit|aed943498d9ed9c2745151d1f4a63561ed7b5b22|May 4 2009}}
* WPS support for fire grid and nesting {{WRF-Fire-commit|4c86cf15408046b28a4c725fea80a9fc15ca1a7e|7 May 2009}}
* '''First journal paper with a description of the WRF-Fire''' [http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCS.2009.932224 Mandel, Beezley, Coen, Kim; June 2009][http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3965v2 arXiv p.29ff]
* Add namelist.fire to define fuel categories {{WRF-Fire-commit|c978b4ad2e83788d21c72dd93b8ec7eaea5a8c90|20 Sep 2009}}
* Interpolate in the computation of fuel_left locally to save stack memory {{WRF-Fire-commit|2ac779ca139bd84e5da858a155d1efc2559b238d|Oct 10 2009}}
* [[How to visualize WRF-Fire output in Matlab|3D visualization in Matlab]] {{WRF-Fire-commit|9237c5529ee03a53d14c448a5fabefc13704819a|Nov 3 2009}}
* [[How to visualize WRF-Fire output in VisTrails|Visualization in VisTrails]] and [[Supercomputing 2009 Demo]], Nov 15 2009
 
===2010===
* Support for WRF restart {{WRF-Fire-commit|fd0219bce87b332b8abb55558c6323f2fc6dc2be|16 Jan 2010}}
* Control in namelist the initial atmosphere perturbation (bubble) in ideal run, off by default. {{WRF-Fire-commit|993cd88d2e2ec6ed84ada027bf5a483ac686c163|27 Feb 2010}} See  [[Talk:WRF-Fire development notes#Bubble|discussion]].
* Version {{WRF-Fire-commit|b6fe89aeb71d941e91530aafcf2f5b183a44fc37|19 Feb 2010}} [[Fire code in WRF release#3.2|released with WRF 3.2]] on [http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/wrfv3.2/updates-3.2.html Apr 2 2010]
* Hyperbolic vertical mesh grading in ideal run not only exponential. {{WRF-Fire-commit|580450739d07b57467f2ce50e1d898029fa47fca|Mar 9 2010}} 
* Fetch high-resolution geogrid data automatically {{WRF-Fire-commit|3bebc4f46f72de3cbfcebd902879098de1122c23|Apr 27 2010}}
* Walking line ignition (as the fireman walks igniting the fire) {{WRF-Fire-commit|acf57d48e09c66826dd8defc87a6dc800627a2e5|23 May 2010}}
* Basic [[How to visualize WRF-Fire output in VAPOR|visualization in VAPOR]]. {{WRF-Fire-commit|1e710fc81479ea71ed74dd9903da9917fc9dcd93|May 26 2010}}
* Merge git repository with WRF and WPS 3.2  {{WRF-Fire-commit|0c084a8e4efeda74c67f62e79393dcec3b21e2d5|Jun 12 2010}} [http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/wrf-fire/2010-June/000046.html announcement]
* Interpolate the terrain gradient to the fire mesh instead of differencing an interpolated terrain height. {{WRF-Fire-commit|80d70fb74bea0e09ef0f635bd90fbe657582a79d|Jun 14 2010}} See [[Talk:WRF-Fire development notes#Proposed computation of smooth terrain gradient|discussion]].
* Replace includes for fire parameter arrays by a derived type. {{WRF-Fire-commit|38007163901e413a8952abd3d600fc8eba24d103|Jun 14 2010}}. See [[Talk:WRF-Fire development notes#Ugly includes|discussion]].
* Resurrected a standalone driver for the fire code that is independent of WRF for diagnostics. {{WRF-Fire-commit|6464357566b780c12d1d71dc2a144a27ed23217b|20 Jun 2010}} See [[Talk:WRF-Fire development notes#Standalone driver|discussion]].
* Surface initialization in ideal runs allows for defining surface properties like roughness, ground temperature, albedo etc., required by soil models and radiation codes. See [[Talk:WRF-Fire wish list#Surface Initialization|discussion]]. {{WRF-Fire-commit|5eb128225f87b727f30ce11f9cb07b637fb62786|Jul 6 2010}}
* Reading from a file in an ideal run: {{WRF-Fire-commit|d15ece139d3dbd69badfbb5d1c8f1cb857c53132|land use}}, {{WRF-Fire-commit|8d204c4348509cb2efd185cadc4073971ea95ecc|fuel categories}}, {{WRF-Fire-commit|45415cbb515cd4d7dbe0828b11b51b91bf993ae4|topography}} Jul 22 2010
* Vertical wind profiles in Matlab for diagnostics {{WRF-Fire-commit|bee953f99cdcd5260389fa3ab5ef5a7529770e2e|Sun Jul 25 2010}}
* Interpolate wind to a given height (the same  for all fuels) from log profile, and set the height as fire_wind_height in the namelist. [http://github.com/jbeezley/wrf-fire/blob/76d3724e5ce9a69ba51ed650667058e9e583ae21/wrfv2_fire/phys/module_fr_sfire_driver.F#L1023 Sep 11 2010], added wind reduction factor with defaults per Behave {{WRF-Fire-commit|dce06344012c38151fef29b2924b9fc2de6a71cb|16 Sep 2010}}
* Interpolating geographic coordinates to the fire mesh in WPS {{WRF-Fire-commit|d7ebe29f00b60e03d4f93c1ea0b0013b5f96fb6b|17 Sep 2010}}
* [[How to diagnose fuel properties in WRF-Fire|Rate of spread diagnostics]] {{WRF-Fire-commit|334bf9417b5397ed3692b8f469a4914ed433e051|16 Sep 2010}}.
* Support for NetCDF 4 output files based on HDF5 {{WRF-Fire-commit|06c276f324873bc4c6f82c27298430435989ab97|16 Oct 2010}}.
* Subscale ignition with zero initial radius. See [[Talk:WRF-Fire development notes#Gradual_ignition|discussion]]. {{WRF-Fire-commit|c28da1ac95eda7cda822df60e8051e7500873b19|Nov 2, 2010}}
 
===2011===
* [[Vertical wind interpolation|Vertical log interpolation of the wind to different heights for different fuels]]. See [[Talk:WRF-Fire_development_notes#Wind_interpolation_to_different_heights_for_different_fuels|discussion]]. {{WRF-Fire-commit|72219b996f0dbe6af16cd7afdcc39e036c751156|24 Feb 2011}}
* Ignition time interpolation for better quadrature of fuel left {{WRF-Fire-commit|d9cfc6e0988ed90cc96146a23d65a35bb5bad8d8|March 16, 2011}}. See [[WRF-Fire development notes#Better quadrature for fuel left|discussion]].
* Added independent adjustment factors of base spread rate, wind correction, and slope correction to fuel description {{WRF-Fire-commit|43a7425b36dd7fdc4b3784c6827cb7c44605d748|Mar 23, 2011}}
* Perimeter ignition from specified ignition times on the whole domain, allowing for atmosphere and fuel consumption spin-up. {{WRF-Fire-commit|716cf59c2313e3bb483a57db02211d17b8d095f7|Mar 24, 2011}} in ideal run. See [[Talk:WRF-Fire development notes#Fire spin-up|discussion]].
* '''Reference paper discussion version''' [https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/4/497/2011/gmdd-4-497-2011.pdf Mandel, Beezley, Kochanski, '''Coupled atmosphere-wildland fire modeling with WRF-Fire version 3.3'''], March 9, 2011
* WRF-Fire [http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/wrf-fire/2011-April/000052.html released with WRF 3.3 Apr 6, 2011]. The release code is based on the {{WRF-Fire-commit|fa26d08d8154124ac51514b11bc671eb312e20f8|Nov 20, 2010}} version with bug fix {{WRF-Fire-commit|b964224219585ab198d58510c8f7a0cf129b1990|Jan 17, 2011}}, with [[Changes in WRF-Fire 3.3 release|'''further changes made at NCAR''']]. '''Last version released with WRF.'''
*  [http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-4-591-2011 '''Reference paper final version'''] used the name SFIRE. Code continued to be maintained in the original [https://api.github.com/repos/openwfm/wrf-fire WRF-Fire Git repository].
* Timing from [http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/ ESMF] [http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/docs/user_guide/users_guide_chap7.html#_Toc75337319 structures] to support variable time step and ignition in a restart run. {{WRF-Fire-commit|e062dbf62b7591e71a486a7c512efd75e48ed9a1|Jul 24, 2011}} See [[Talk:WRF-Fire development notes#Ignition_Time|discussion]].
* [[Users guide]] moved to the wiki, including existing [[List of howtos|howtos]] as chapters. [http://www.openwfm.org/w/index.php5?title=Coupled_atmosphere-wildland_fire_model_WRF_and_SFIRE_users%27_guide&action=history August 2, 2011]
* Spread vector and [http://www.forestencyclopedia.net/p/p486 Byram's fire intensity]  to estimate the severity of a potential fire for a fire danger rating map {{WRF-Fire-commit|52c4e1595e08a98059ae33c0592bee3d3c0f2bb4|Aug 26, 2011}}
* Restart from wrfout (cycling=.true.) {{WRF-Fire-commit|2b7c8f19382d5d3269e604bf6ba180a0ed8aec44|Sep 16, 2011}} See [[Talk:WRF-Fire development notes#Restart_from_wrfout|discussion]].
* Spatially variable moisture as a part of WRF input {{WRF-Fire-commit|5a6c4b8c06a0aef126ee60a1541744aaaf62c2e5|Sep 27, 2011}}
* Standalone model running from WRF atmospheric state. {{WRF-Fire-commit|168fbfaa8a62061b51999001dc55162e2ac3a798|Oct 28 2011}} See [[Talk:WRF-Fire development notes#Standalone_driver|discussion]].
 
===2012===
* Integrated [[fuel moisture model]] with input from WRF variables, based on the Canadian fire danger rating system {{WRF-Fire-commit|763044cd62eaaec5b92c14462f6e25bdddf4d643|Mar 10, 2012}}. See [[Talk:WRF-Fire_development_notes#Moisture_model|discussion]].
* [[Coupling with WRF-Chem|Smoke transport by WRF-Chem]] tracer {{WRF-Fire-commit|e7b52ab1baef2565ae1743a25bc1ed7f7f2fc109|April 21, 2012}}
* Multiple fire time steps in a single atmospheric step, for stability with highly heterogenous fuels {{WRF-Fire-commit|773cacd01f4401f69d5ab4a0877e3a0a5a32abad|Mar 30, 2012}}
* Fire area and sensible heat flux defined by bitmap images from a satellite or airborne sensor, in an ideal run  {{WRF-Fire-commit|479c944f05ee22a9cbb5d634594975f48c4bbb4c|Jul 27, 2012}}
* Fixed fire of a circular shape, stationary or moving along a line, with a time varying heat flux {{WRF-Fire-commit|778a0c9b3846140221af539ace052c32570de87b|Jul 29, 2012}}
* Two validation papers accepted: Santa Ana fire {{arXiv|1202.3209}} in Forest Management and Ecology and FireFlux  {{arXiv|1206.3345}} in Geoscientific Model Development Discussions [[Publications#Journal_papers_2|December 17, 2012]]
 
===2013===
* [[Coupling with WRF-Chem]] RADM2 and MOZART models {{WRF-Fire-commit|d00789fe5f80976111024f9cdb03ca63f5900478|Jan 17, 2013}}
*  [[Assimilation of RAWS fuel moisture data]], Apr 25, 2013
* Utility for choosing [[WRF-Fire ignition|ignition points]] on the mesh {{WRF-Fire-commit|e5b6a70fb937534e6cc5868b727fb941bfc04f8a|Jun 15, 2013}}
* [http://ccm.ucdenver.edu/reports/rep316.pdf Reference paper] describing new features since 2011 and [http://mops.gov.il/English/HomelandSecurityENG/NFServices/Pages/FirePredictionSystem.aspx operational deployment in Israel] Oct 9, 2013
* Fire model files in WRF source <code>phys/module-fr-sfire-*.F</code> were [https://github.com/wrf-model/WRF/commit/ff7ec687bd82f9d69fed258756e90b809c758f14 renamed] to <code>phys/module-fr-fire-*.F</code>
 
===2014===
*  [[Assimilation of RAWS fuel moisture data]] in standalone
===2015===
* Continued development of WRF-Fire within WRF at NCAR [https://github.com/wrf-model/WRF/commit/e26f21fb33ecdee7ba3c5640219ddd84a37c6b43 started].
 
===2016===
* [https://github.com/wrf-model/WRF/commit/8fafea9e9922ec231dfb75e721f83ea78418b57 WRF transitioned] from SVM source control to GitHub.
* [[Fire replay and cycling]] {{WRF-Fire-commit|efd663a93ad932a5bb3b73d32c5ff8a457d75a85|Apr 28, 2016}}
* WRF-Fire transitioned to [[Making WRF-Fire repository into a fork WRF-SFIRE of WRF|a fork of WRF]] called [https://github.com/openwfm/WRF-SFIRE WRF-SFIRE], which facilitates upgrades of WRF version. Aug 16, 2016
 
===To be continued===
 
 
==See also==
 
* [[How to get WRF-Fire]]
* [[List of WRF-Fire pages]]
* [[Users guide]]
* [[Fire code in WRF release]]
* [[WRF-SFIRE wish list]]
 
==External links==
 
* {{ccm|Data_assimilation_seminar_to_do_list|Data assimilation seminar to do list}}
* {{ccm|Jan_Mandel/Blog|Jan Mandel's blog}}
* [http://repo.or.cz/git-browser/by-commit.html?r=wrffire.git Commit graph]
* [http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/WG2/WRF_conventions.html WRF Coding Conventions]
* [http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/tutorial/200807/WRF%20Registry%20and%20Examples.pdf WRF Registry and Examples]
* [http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/WG2/software_v2/ WRF v2 Software Tools and Documentation]
* [http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/WG2/software_2.0/registry_schaffer.pdf Description of WRF Registry]
 
[[Category:WRF-Fire|Development notes]]

Latest revision as of 02:29, 21 July 2026

Main article: WRF-SFIRE user guide. To get the software now, see How to get WRF-SFIRE.

This page tracks activity in the WRF-Fire and related software development. All members of the community are welcome to get an account and edit.

2004

  • Ned Patton and Janice Coen propose WRF-Fire in a workshop paper and formulate the fundamental principles of how to combine WRF with the fire spread model from CAWFE.

2005

  • Standalone fire model from CAWFE rewritten in F90 received from Ned Patton Mar 31 2005.

2006

  • John Michalakes writes specs for support of fire grids in WRF Feb 6 2006

2007

  • Alternative implementation of fire grid in nested domains in WRF by Jon Beezley Feb 29 2007
  • WRF-Fire start: WRF+CAWFE tracers code received from Ned Patton became the initial commit in the WRF-Fire git repository set up by Jon Beezley Jun 6 2007
  • Matlab prototype of level set method working Aug 30, 2007
  • Imported a modular rewrite with a new standalone level set code, called SFIRE Sep 5 2007
  • WRF+spread by level set coupled code working Nov 2 2007
  • Ignition controlled from namelist Dec 24 2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

  • Continued development of WRF-Fire within WRF at NCAR started.

2016

To be continued

See also

External links

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