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An overview of the coupled atmosphere-wildland fire model WRF-Fire

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 2011-02-01 v1

Abstract

We describe the coupled atmosphere-wildfire model WRF-Fire, which is distributed as a part of WRF. The fire module is based on a fire-spread model, implemented by the level-set method. In each time step, the fire module takes the wind as input and returns the latent and sensible heat fluxes. We report on the software architecture and features of the software.

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@article{arxiv.1101.5745,
  title  = {An overview of the coupled atmosphere-wildland fire model WRF-Fire},
  author = {Jan Mandel and Jonathan D. Beezley and Adam K. Kochanski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.5745},
  year   = {2011}
}

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91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, January 2011