openwfm / Wrf Fire

! SFIRE - Spread fire model in WRF-Fire ! !*** Jan Mandel August 2007 - March 2011 !*** email: [email protected]

! For support please go to ! http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/WRF-Fire_user_support

! Current user's guide can be found at ! http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/Users_guide

! For reference publications see ! http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/WRF-Fire_publications

! A limited version from 2010 is included in WRF release. We no longer ! support that version.

! This module is the only entry point from WRF-ARW to the wildland ! fire model. The call to sfire_driver advances the fire model by ! one timestep. The fire model inputs the wind and outputs ! temperature and humidity tendencies. The fire model also inputs a ! number of constant arrays (fuel data, topography). Additional ! arguments are model state (for data assimilation) and constant arrays ! the model gives to WRF for safekeeping because it is not allowed ! to save anything.

! This code as of mid-2011 is described in [1]. If you use this code, ! please acknowledge our work by citing [1]. ! Thank you.

! Acknowledgements ! ! The fire physics code is adapted from the CAWFE code [2]. ! The coupling with WRF is adapted from a code by Ned Patton, ! coupling a Fortran 90 port of the CAWFE fire module to WRF [3]. ! Support of refined fire grids in WRF was provided by John Michalakes. ! Jonathan D. Beezley has set up and maintained the WRF build and ! execution environment, provided software engineering infrastructure ! including synchronization with the WRF repository, and was responsibe ! for all aspects of WRF modification. UCD students Minjeong Kim and ! Volodymyr Kondratenko have contributed to the implementation of the ! fire propagation by the level set method.

! Refefences ! ! [1] Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, and Adam 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 ! ! [2] T. L. Clark, J. Coen, and D. Latham, Description of a coupled ! atmosphere-fire model, Intl. J. Wildland Fire, vol. 13, pp. 49-64, ! 2004 ! ! [3] 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 ! ! -------------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! CURRENT ACTIVITY ! ! For current activity and development trends please check out ! http://ccm.ucdenver.edu/wiki/User:Jmandel/blog ! http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/WRF-Fire_development_notes !

ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION IN THE doc SUBDIRECTORY

README.txt this file README_git.txt how to use the versioning system README_mac.txt how to run on a Mac README_matlab_netcdf.txt how to read WRF input and output directly in Matlab README_vis.txt matlab visualization using files written every timestep README_visualization.txt convert WRF input and output to Matlab README_wps.txt how use real data including fuel from Landfire