WRF-Fire publications

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Description

WRF-Fire is described in the following papers.

Journal papers

• Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, and Adam 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

• Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, Janice L. Coen, and Minjeong Kim, Data Assimilation for Wildland Fires: Ensemble Kalman filters in coupled atmosphere-surface models, IEEE Control Systems Magazine 29, Issue 3, June 2009, 47-65. doi:10.1109/MCS.2009.932224. Preprint available as arXiv:0712.3965.

Conference papers

• Jonathan D. Beezley, A. Kochanski, V. Y. Kondratenko, and J. Mandel, Integrating high-resolution static data into WRF for real fire simulations, Ninth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Palm Springs, CA, October 18-20, 2011

• Jan Mandel, University of Colorado, Denver, CO; and J. D. Beezley, A. Kochanski, V. Y. Kondratenko, L. Zhang, E. Anderson, J. Daniels II, C. T. Silva, and C. Johnson, A wildland fire modeling and visualization environment, Ninth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Palm Springs, CA, October 18-20, 2011 pdf

• Jonathan D. Beezley, Importing high-resolution datasets into Geogrid, 12th Annual WRF User's Workshop, Boulder, CO, June 2011. pdf local copy poster

Other publications

Journal papers

No other journal papers to date.

Theses

• Minjeong Kim, Reaction diffusion equations and numerical wildland fire models, PhD thesis, University of Colorado Denver, 2011

• Jonathan D. Beezley, High-Dimensional Data Assimilation and Morphing Ensemble Kalman Filters with Applications in Wildfire Modeling, PhD thesis, University of Colorado Denver, 2009

Conference papers

• Mika Peace, T. Mattner and G. Mills, The Kangaroo Island bushfires of 2007 A meteorological case study and WRF-fire simulation, Ninth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology. 2011 (Adelaide University/Bureau of Meteorology, Adelaide, SA, Australia)

• Adam Kochanski, M. A. Jenkins, S. K. Krueger, J. Mandel, J. D. Beezley, and C. B. Clements, Coupled atmosphere-fire simulations of the FireFlux experiment: Impacts of model resolution on its performance, Ninth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Palm Springs, CA, October 18-20, 2011

• Georgi Jordanov, Jonathan D. Beezley, Nina Dobrinkova, Adam K. Kochanski, Jan Mandel, Bedřich Sousedík, Simulation of the 2009 Harmanli fire (Bulgaria), 8th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations, June 6-10, 2011, Sozopol, Bulgaria. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, to appear. arXiv:1106.4736

• Kondratenko, Volodymyr Y., Jonathan D. Beezley, Adam K. Kochanski, and Jan Mandel, Ignition from a Fire Perimeter in a WRF Wildland Fire Model, 12th Annual WRF User's Workshop, Boulder, CO, June 2011. pdf arXiv:1107.2675 presentation

• Jan Mandel, Jonathan Beezley, and Adam Kochanski, An overview of the coupled atmosphere-wildland fire model WRF-Fire, 91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, January 25, 2011.

• Nina Dobrinkova, Georgi Jordanov, and Jan Mandel, WRF-Fire Applied in Bulgaria, Numerical Methods and Applications, I. Dimov, S. Dimova, and N. Kolkovska, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6046, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 133-140. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications - NM&A'10, August 20 - 24, 2010, Borovets, Bulgaria. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-18466-6_15. Preprint arXiv:1007.5347, July 2010.

• Janice L. Coen and Craig C. Douglas, Computational Modeling of Large Wildfires: A Roadmap., 9th International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering & Science. Accepted. preprint

• Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, and Volodymyr Y. Kondratenko, Fast Fourier Transform Ensemble Kalman Filter with Application to a Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Model. Anna M. Gil-Lafuente, Jose M. Merigo (Eds.) Computational Intelligence in Business and Economics (Proceedings of the MS'10 International Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 15-17 July 2010), World Scientific, pp. 777-784. doi:10.1142/9789814324441_0089. Preprint available at arXiv:1001.1588.

Posters

• M. Jenkins, A. Kochanski, S. K. Krueger, W. Mell, R. McDermott, The Fluid Dynamical Forces Involved in Grass Fire Propagation, AGU Fall Meeting, 2010 pdf

• J. D. Beezley, A. Kochanski, V. Y. Kondratenko, J. Mandel, B. Sousedik, Simulation of the Meadow Creek fire using WRF-Fire, AGU Fall Meeting, 2010

• Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, Adam K. Kochanski, Volodymyr Y. Kondratenko, Bedrich Sousedik, Erik Anderson, and Joel Daniels, Wildland fire simulation by WRF-Fire, AGU Fall Meeting, 2010

• Kara Yedinak, Brian Lamb, Janice Coen, Sensitivity Analysis and Application of WRF-Fire, AGU Fall Meeting, 2009.

• Kara Yedinak, Brian Lamb, Janice Coen, Sensitivity Analyses of Ignition Area and Fire-Atmosphere Dynamics using WRF-FIRE, 8th Symposium on Fire & Forest Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Kalispell. Oct 13-15, 2009.

• Kara Yedinak, J. L. Coen, and B. Lamb, WRF-Fire: A fire-atmosphere dynamics module for air quality modeling, The 89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (Phoenix, AZ), 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, Poster JP 1.10, January 2009.

Presentations

• Colin Simpson, Andrew Sturman and Peyman Zawar- Reza Numerical Modeling of Wildland Fire Behaviour under Foehn Winds in New Zealand, 12th Annual WRF Users' Workshop, 2011 (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
• Simpson, C.; Sturman, A.; Zawar-Reza, P., Numerical Modelling of Fire-Atmosphere Interactions and the 2003 Canberra Bushfires, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #NH34A-07, 2010
• A. Kochanski, M. Jenkins, S. K. Krueger, J. Mandel, J. D. Beezley, C. B. Clements, Evaluation of The Fire Plume Dynamics Simulated by WRF-Fire, AGU Fall Meeting, 2010 pdf key
• J. Mandel, Coupled atmosphere-wildland fire simulation by WRF-Fire, Invited lecture at IMA Workshop Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations: Fast Solution Techniques, December 2, 2010. pdf key video
• Janice Coen, Computational Modeling of Wildland Fire Behavior and Weather for Research and Forecasting, keynote lecture at ICCS 2009 abstract

Predecessors

• Edward G. Patton and Janice L. Coen, WRF-Fire: A Coupled Atmosphere-Fire Module for WRF, Preprints of Joint MM5/Weather Research and Forecasting Model Users' Workshop, Boulder, CO, June 22-25, 2004, pp. 221-223, NCAR.

See also

• Spatial epidemiology publications
• Data assimilation seminar publications