WRF-SFIRE user guide

This guide applies to the code as available from OpenWFM.org and partly also to WRF-Fire, which is a subset available in WRF release. This guide evolves with the software 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.

Getting started

1. Downloading and building the software
2. Running an ideal case

Configuration

1. namelist.input
2. namelist.fire
3. Vertical wind interpolation
4. Ignition

Running a real case

1. Basics of running a real case
2. Acquiring and converting fine-resolution data for Geogrid
3. Using GeoTIFF files

Visualisation

1. VAPOR
2. Google Earth
3. Mayavi2
4. VisTrails
5. Matlab

Diagnostics

1. Wind profiles
2. Fuel properties
3. Loading WRF files into Matlab
4. WRF variables
5. SFIRE variables

Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by NSF grant 0835579.

See also

• WRF-Fire development notes