Publications

Journal articles

• Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, and Adam K. Kochanski, Coupled atmosphere-wildland fire modeling with WRF-Fire version 3.3, Geoscientific Model Development Discussions (GMDD) 4, 497-545, 2011

• 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.

• 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 Also available as arXiv:0712.3965.

• Zhen Wang, Janice Coen, Anthony Vodacek, 2009, Generation of synthetic infrared remote sensing scenes of wildland fire. Intl. J. Wildland Fire, 18, 302-319.

• Jan Mandel and Craig W. Johns, 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

Conference proceedings

• 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 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.

• 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. Also available at arXiv:1001.1588.

Posters

• M. Jenkins, A. Kochanski, S. K. Krueger, W. Mell, R. McDermott, The Fluid Dynamical Forces Involved in Grass Fire Propagation, AGU Fall Meeting, 2010

• 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

• A. Kochanski, M. Jenkins, S. K. Krueger, J. Mandel, J. D. Beezley, C. B. Clements, Coupled atmosphere-fire simulations of the FireFlux experiment: Impacts of model resolution on its performance, AMS Ninth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Palm Springs, Nov. 2011. extended abstract

• 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. abstract pdf key video
• Janice Coen, Computational Modeling of Wildland Fire Behavior and Weather for Research and Forecasting, keynote lecture at ICCS 2009 abstract

Other

• 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)

Earlier publications and presentations (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.