1 ! SFIRE - Spread fire model in WRF-Fire
3 !*** Jan Mandel August 2007 - March 2011
4 !*** email: Jan.Mandel@gmail.com
6 ! For support please subscribe to the wrf-fire mailing list at NCAR at
7 ! http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/wrf-fire
8 ! or go to http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/WRF-Fire_user_support
10 ! Current drafts of the technical documentation and
11 ! user's guide can be found at
13 ! http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/WRF-Fire_documentation
14 ! http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/WRF-Fire_publications
16 ! This module is the only entry point from WRF-ARW to the wildland
17 ! fire model. The call to sfire_driver advances the fire model by
18 ! one timestep. The fire model inputs the wind and outputs
19 ! temperature and humidity tendencies. The fire model also inputs a
20 ! number of constant arrays (fuel data, topography). Additional
21 ! arguments are model state (for data assimilation) and constant arrays
22 ! the model gives to WRF for safekeeping because it is not allowed
25 ! This code as of mid-2011 is described in [1]. If you use this code,
26 ! please acknowledge our work by citing [1].
31 ! The fire physics code is adapted from the CAWFE code [2].
32 ! The coupling with WRF is adapted from a code by Ned Patton,
33 ! coupling a Fortran 90 port of the CAWFE fire module to WRF [3].
34 ! Support of refined fire grids in WRF was provided by John Michalakes.
35 ! Jonathan D. Beezley has set up and maintained the WRF build and
36 ! execution environment, provided software engineering infrastructure
37 ! including synchronization with the WRF repository, and was responsibe
38 ! for all aspects of WRF modification. UCD students Minjeong Kim and
39 ! Volodymyr Kondratenko have contributed to the implementation of the
40 ! fire propagation by the level set method.
44 ! [1] Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, and Adam K. Kochanski, "Coupled
45 ! atmosphere-wildland fire modeling with WRF 3.3 and SFIRE 2011,
46 ! Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) 4, 591-610, 2011.
47 ! doi:10.5194/gmd-4-591-2011
49 ! [2] T. L. Clark, J. Coen, and D. Latham, Description of a coupled
50 ! atmosphere-fire model, Intl. J. Wildland Fire, vol. 13, pp. 49-64,
53 ! [3] Edward G. Patton and Janice L. Coen, WRF-Fire: A Coupled
54 ! Atmosphere-Fire Module for WRF, Preprints of Joint MM5/Weather
55 ! Research and Forecasting Model Users' Workshop, Boulder, CO,
56 ! June 22-25, 2004, pp. 221-223, NCAR
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62 ! For current activity and development trends please check out
63 ! http://ccm.ucdenver.edu/wiki/User:Jmandel/blog
64 ! http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/WRF-Fire_development_notes
68 ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION IN THE doc SUBDIRECTORY
72 README_git.txt how to use the versioning system
73 README_mac.txt how to run on a Mac
74 README_matlab_netcdf.txt how to read WRF input and output directly in Matlab
75 README_vis.txt matlab visualization using files written every timestep
76 README_visualization.txt convert WRF input and output to Matlab
77 README_wps.txt how use real data including fuel from Landfire