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'''WRF-Fire''' combines the Weather Research and Forecasting model ([[WRF]]) with a fire spread model, implemented by the [[wikipedia:Level set method|level set metho]].
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'''WRF-Fire''' combines the Weather Research and Forecasting model ([[WRF]]) with a fire spread model, implemented by the [[wikipedia:Level set method|level set method]].
  
==Software==
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It is written in [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran 90]] following [http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/WG2/WRF_conventions.html WRF coding conventions]. It is called from WRF as a subroutine and it calls WRF libraries for utilities such as I/O and communication betwen [[OpenMP]] threads and between [[MPI]] processes. It can also run independently without an atmosphere model by substituting its own main program and linking with stubs that replace the WRF subroutines called, though this capability has fallen behind at the moment.
 
 
WRF-Fire is written in [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran 90]] following [http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/WG2/WRF_conventions.html WRF coding conventions]. It is called from WRF as a subroutine and it calls WRF libraries for utilities such as I/O and communication betwen [[OpenMP]] threads and between [[MPI]] processes. It can also run independently without an atmosphere model by substituting its own main program and linking with stubs that replace the WRF subroutines called, though this capability has fallen behind at the moment.
 
  
 
==Documentation==
 
==Documentation==

Revision as of 19:02, 19 January 2010

WRF-Fire combines the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) with a fire spread model, implemented by the level set method.

It is written in Fortran 90 following WRF coding conventions. It is called from WRF as a subroutine and it calls WRF libraries for utilities such as I/O and communication betwen OpenMP threads and between MPI processes. It can also run independently without an atmosphere model by substituting its own main program and linking with stubs that replace the WRF subroutines called, though this capability has fallen behind at the moment.

Documentation

Publications

Description of WRF-Fire

Papers and presentations related to WRF-Fire

  • Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, and Volodymyr Y. Kondratenko, Fast Fourier Transform Ensemble Kalman Filter with Application to a Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Model, MS2010, submitted. Preprint arXiv:1001.1588

Howtos

Current versions

The current version of WRF-Fire is based on WRF 3.1. WRF included a version of WRF-Fire quietly since WRF 3.1.1 in Summer 2009. The official, supported release of WRF-Fire with WRF is planned with WRF 3.2 in late March 2010.

To get the latest version directly from the development repository, see How to run WRF-Fire. This version also contains a number of additional tools such as Matlab scripts for visualization.

See also