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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.
File format
Custom.
Programming language and environments
FORTRAN 77 with m4 preprocessor, C
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.