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1 ! SFIRE - Spread fire model in WRF-Fire
2 !
3 !*** Jan Mandel August 2007 - March 2011
4 !*** email: Jan.Mandel@gmail.com
6 ! For support please go to
7 ! http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/WRF-Fire_user_support
9 ! Current user's guide can be found at
10 ! http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/Users_guide
12 ! For reference publications see
13 ! http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/WRF-Fire_publications
15 ! A limited version from 2010 is included in WRF release. We no longer
16 ! support that version.
18 ! This module is the only entry point from WRF-ARW to the wildland
19 ! fire model. The call to sfire_driver advances the fire model by
20 ! one timestep. The fire model inputs the wind and outputs
21 ! temperature and humidity tendencies. The fire model also inputs a
22 ! number of constant arrays (fuel data, topography). Additional
23 ! arguments are model state (for data assimilation) and constant arrays
24 ! the model gives to WRF for safekeeping because it is not allowed
25 ! to save anything.
27 ! This code as of mid-2011 is described in [1]. If you use this code,
28 ! please acknowledge our work by citing [1].
29 ! Thank you.
31 ! Acknowledgements
32 !
33 ! The fire physics code is adapted from the CAWFE code [2].
34 ! The coupling with WRF is adapted from a code by Ned Patton,
35 ! coupling a Fortran 90 port of the CAWFE fire module to WRF [3].
36 ! Support of refined fire grids in WRF was provided by John Michalakes.
37 ! Jonathan D. Beezley has set up and maintained the WRF build and
38 ! execution environment, provided software engineering infrastructure
39 ! including synchronization with the WRF repository, and was responsibe
40 ! for all aspects of WRF modification. UCD students Minjeong Kim and
41 ! Volodymyr Kondratenko have contributed to the implementation of the
42 ! fire propagation by the level set method.
44 ! Refefences
45 !
46 ! [1] Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, and Adam K. Kochanski, "Coupled
47 ! atmosphere-wildland fire modeling with WRF 3.3 and SFIRE 2011,
48 ! Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) 4, 591-610, 2011.
49 ! doi:10.5194/gmd-4-591-2011
50 !
51 ! [2] T. L. Clark, J. Coen, and D. Latham, Description of a coupled
52 ! atmosphere-fire model, Intl. J. Wildland Fire, vol. 13, pp. 49-64,
53 ! 2004
54 !
55 ! [3] Edward G. Patton and Janice L. Coen, WRF-Fire: A Coupled
56 ! Atmosphere-Fire Module for WRF, Preprints of Joint MM5/Weather
57 ! Research and Forecasting Model Users' Workshop, Boulder, CO,
58 ! June 22-25, 2004, pp. 221-223, NCAR
59 !
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61 !
62 ! CURRENT ACTIVITY
63 !
64 ! For current activity and development trends please check out
65 ! http://ccm.ucdenver.edu/wiki/User:Jmandel/blog
66 ! http://www.openwfm.org/wiki/WRF-Fire_development_notes
67 !
70 ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION IN THE doc SUBDIRECTORY
73 README.txt this file
74 README_git.txt how to use the versioning system
75 README_mac.txt how to run on a Mac
76 README_matlab_netcdf.txt how to read WRF input and output directly in Matlab
77 README_vis.txt matlab visualization using files written every timestep
78 README_visualization.txt convert WRF input and output to Matlab
79 README_wps.txt how use real data including fuel from Landfire