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 the software
2. Building the software and 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

Coupling with fuel moisture and smoke

1. Fuel moisture model
2. Coupling with WRF-Chem

Standalone fire model

1. Running the standalone fire model

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

Publications

1. Model description
2. Other publications

Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by NSF grants ATM-0835579 and DMS-1216481.

See also

• WRF-Fire development notes
• Fire code in WRF releases
• Publications