WRF-Fire

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

WRF-Fire 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 between MPI processes. WRF-Fire executes on a part of the domain, called a tile (in WRF nomenclature). All communication between the tiles is in the caller; thus, one time step requires multiple calls to WRF-Fire. WRF-Fire 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.

Distribution

Current development version

This version also contains a number of additional tools such as Matlab scripts for visualization. See How to get WRF-Fire and How to run WRF-Fire for installation instructions.

From WRF release

WRF is included in WRF 3.2, released on April 2, 2010.

Documentation

See WRF-Fire documentation.

Howtos

Publications

Description of WRF-Fire

Related papers and presentations

  • 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

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