! SFIRE - Spread fire model in WRF-Fire
!
!*** Jan Mandel August 2007 - March 2011
!*** email: Jan.Mandel@gmail.com
! 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
!
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!
! 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
