CAWFE
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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.
Language
FORTRAN 77, m4 preprocessor, C
File format
Custom.
Documentation
Terry L. Clark, William D. Hall, and Janice L. Coen, Source code documentation for the Clark-Hall cloud-scale model code version G3CH01, Nationa Center for Atmospheric Research, May 1996
Support
Publications
- Coen, J. L. and C. C. Douglas, 2010: Computational modeling of large wildfires. 9th Intl. Symp. on Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering and Science (DCABES 2010), to appear.
- 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.