CAWFE

CAWFE (Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland Fire-Environment) is a wildfire simulation code developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research by Terry L. Clark and Janice L. Coen. The code combines the Clark-Hall weather model with fire spread modeled by tracers. It is written in Fortran 77.

Distribution

Contact Janice Coen.

Publications

• Coen, J. L., 2005: Simulation of the Big Elk Fire using coupled atmosphere-fire modeling. Journal of Wildland Fire, 14, 49-59.
• Clark, T. L., Coen, J. L., Latham, D., 2004: Description of a coupled atmosphere-fire model. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 13, 49-63.
• Clark, T. L., Jenkins, M. A., Coen, J., Packham, D., 1996: A Coupled Atmospheric-Fire Model: Convective Feedback on Fire Line Dynamics. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 35, 875-901.

Visualizations

• Earlier wildfire visualizations at NCAR
• New Coupled Weather-Wildland Fire Modeling Case Studies