WRF-SFIRE user guide

This guide applies to WRF-SFIRE, available from OpenWFM.org. WRF-Fire available in WRF release, is a limited version from 2010. 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 and J. Mandel, S. Amram, J. D. Beezley, G. Kelman, A. K. Kochanski, V. Y. Kondratenko, B. H. Lynn, B. Regev, M. Vejmelka, 2014, Recent advances and applications of WRF–SFIRE, Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 14, 2829-2845, 2014, doi:10.5194/nhess-14-2829-2014.

Mailing list

Please consider joining the mailing list wrf-sfire@googlegroups.com, which is monitored by the developers. Go to https://googlegroups.com/group/wrf-sfire and log into your google account, or, to join without a google account, send any email to wrf-sfire+subscribe@googlegroups.com.

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. Converting fuel data
3. Using GeoTIFF files

Coupling with fuel moisture and smoke

1. Fuel moisture model
2. Assimilation of RAWS fuel moisture data
3. Coupling with WRF-Chem

Data assimilation and ignition from a perimeter

1. Fire replay and cycling

Standalone fire model

1. Running the standalone fire model

Visualisation

1. VAPOR
2. Google Earth
3. Mayavi2
4. VisTrails
5. Matlab
6. Examples and case studies

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