WRF-SFIRE user guide

This guide applies to the code as available from http://openwfm.org and partly also to WRF-Fire, which is a subset available in WRF release. This guide evolves with the software as available at, and it complements the technical description in J. Mandel, J. D. Beezley, and A. K. Kochanski, Coupled atmosphere-wildland fire modeling with WRF 3.3 and SFIRE 2011, Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)] 4, 591-610, 2011, doi:10.5194/gmd-4-591-2011.

1. Introduction
2. Getting started
   1. Downloading and building the software
   2. Running an ideal case
3. Configuration
   1. File namelist.input reference
   2. File namelist.fire reference
   3. Selecting wind interpolation scheme
   4. Ignition
4. Running a real case
   1. Basics of running a real case
   2. Acquiring and converting fine-resolution data for Geogrid
   3. Using GeoTIFF files
5. Visualisation
   1. VAPOR
   2. Google Earth
   3. Mayavi2
   4. VisTrails
   5. Matlab
6. Diagnostics
   1. Wind profiles
   2. Fuel properties
   3. Loading WRF files into Matlab
   4. Interpreting raw variables
7. Publications