Publications
- Back to the WRF-SFIRE user guide.
WRF-Fire description
- The WRF-Fire code is described in these 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
Users' guides
- Wang, W., Bruyere, C., Duda, M., Dudhia, J., Gill, D., Lin, H.C., Michalakes, J., Rizvi, S., Zhang, X., Beezley, J.D., Coen, J.L., Mandel, J.: ARW version 3 modeling system user’s guide. Mesoscale & Miscroscale Meteorology Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research (July 2010)
Other WRF-Fire publications
- These papers deal with various aspects of WRF-Fire, or report on simulations.
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
- Adam K. Kochanski, S. K. Krueger , M. A. Jenkins, J. Mandel and J. D. Beezley, Real time simulation of 2007 Santa Ana fires, Exploring the Mega-fire Reality 2011.
- 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
Other publications from this project
- Here are publications and presentations, not dealing directly with the WRF-Fire code.
- 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 and Jonathan D. Beezley, An Ensemble Kalman-Particle Predictor-Corrector Filter for Non-Gaussian Data Assimilation, Proceedings ICCS 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5545, Springer, 2009, pp. 470-478. Also available at arXiv:0812.2290.
- Janice Coen, Some new basics of fire behavior, Fire Management Today, In Press. pdf
- Janice Coen, 2010: Dry lightning. Southern California Fire Journal, Spring 2010, 18-23.
- Zhen Wang, Janice Coen, Anthony Vodacek, 2009, Generation of synthetic infrared remote sensing scenes of wildland fire. Intl. J. Wildland Fire, 18, 302-319.
- Craig J. Johns and Jan Mandel, A two-stage Ensemble Kalman Filter for Smooth Data Assimilation, Environmental and Ecological Statistics 15, 101-110, 2008
- Janice Coen, 2008: Deadly fingers of flame. Southern California Fire Journal. 1(1):5-6.
- Jonathan D. Beezley and Jan Mandel, Morphing Ensemble Kalman Filters, Tellus 60A, 131-140, 2008 arXiv:0705.3693
- Jan Mandel, Lynn S. Bennethum, Jonathan D. Beezley, Janice L. Coen, Craig C. Douglas, Minjeong Kim, and Anthony Vodacek, A wildland fire model with data assimilation, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 79, 584-606, 2008, article, CCM Report 233 June 2006 revised January 2008
Earlier publications (before 2008)
- Here are some related publications and presentations from our previous work.
- Janice Coen, Coupled Atmosphere-Wildfire Modeling, NSF Workshop, April 25, 2000
- Jan Mandel Efficient Implementation of the Ensemble Kalman Filter, CCM Report 231, May 2006.
- Jan Mandel and Jonathan D. Beezley, Predictor-Corrector and Morphing Ensemble Filters for the Assimilation of Sparse Data into High-Dimensional Nonlinear Systems, 11th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), CD-ROM, Paper 4.12, 87th American Meterological Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, January 2007 presentation, CCM Report 239, November 2006
- Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, Lynn S. Bennethum, Soham Chakraborty, Janice L. Coen, Craig C. Douglas, Jay Hatcher, Minjeong Kim, and Anthony Vodacek, A Dynamic Data Driven Wildland Fire Model, ICCS 2007, Part I, Yong Shi, G. D. van Albada, P. M. A. Sloot and J. J. Dongarra (Eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4487, 1042--1049, Springer, 2007. Presentation
- Jan Mandel, Lynn S. Bennethum, Mingshi Chen, Janice L. Coen, Craig C. Douglas, Leopoldo P. Franca, Craig J. Johns, Minjeong Kim, Andrew V. Knyazev, Robert Kremens, Vaibhav Kulkarni, Guan Qin, Anthony Vodacek, Jianjia Wu, Wei Zhao, and Adam Zornes, Towards a Dynamic Data Driven Application System for Wildfire Simulation V.S. Sunderam et al. (Eds.): Computational Science - Proceedings ICCS'2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3515, pp. 632-639, 2005.
- Craig C. Douglas, Jonathan D. Beezley, Janice Coen, Deng Li, Wei Li, Alan K. Mandel, Jan Mandel, Guan Qin, and Anthony Vodacek, Demonstrating the Validity of Wildfire DDDAS, Computational Science - ICCS 2006: 6th International Conference, Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006, Proceedings, Part III, Vassil N. Alexandrov, Dick van Albada, Dick Geert and Peter M. A. Sloot and Jack Dongarra (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3993, Springer 2006, pp. 522-529.
- J. Mandel, M. Chen, L.P. Franca, C. Johns, A. Puhalskii, J.L. Coen, C.C. Douglas, R. Kremens, A. Vodacek, W. Zhao, A Note on Dynamic Data Driven Wildfire Modeling, Computational Science - Proceedings ICCS'2004, vol. III, edited by Marian Bubak, G.Dick van Albada, Peter M.A. Sloot, Jack J. Dongarra, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3038, Springer, pp. 725-731. Copyright Springer 2004. book, PDF 150K
- 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.