WRF-Fire

WRF-Fire combines the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) with a fire spread model, implemented by the wikipedia:level set method.

Documentation

• User's guide
• Technical description

Publications

Description of WRF-Fire

• Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, Janice L. Coen, 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. Preprint at arXiv:0712.3965.

Papers and presentations related to WRF-Fire

• Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, and Volodymyr Y. Kondratenko, Fast Fourier Transform Ensemble Kalman Filter with Application to a Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Model, MS2010, submitted. Preprint arXiv:1001.1588

• K M Yedinak, B K Lamb, J L Coen, Sensitivity Analysis and Application of WRF-Fire, poster at the session A35: Wildfire Dynamics: Observations and Modeling of Fire-Atmosphere Interactions, American Geophysical Union Fall 2009 Meeting. Listed in the Scientific program at p. 344.

Versions

The current version of WRF-Fire is based on WRF 3.1. WRF included a version of WRF-Fire quietly since WRF 3.1.1 in Summer 2009. The official, supported release of WRF-Fire with WRF is planned with WRF 3.2 in late March 2010.

To get the latest version directly from the development repository, see How to run WRF-Fire. This version also contains a number of additional tools such as wikipedia:Matlab scripts for visualization.