WRF-SFIRE is a coupled

atmosphere An atmosphere () is a layer of gas or layers of gases that envelop a planet, and is held in place by the gravity of the planetary body. A planet retains an atmosphere when the gravity is great and the temperature of the atmosphere is low. ...

wildfire A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identi ...

model, which combines the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) with a fire-spread model, implemented by the

level-set method Level-set methods (LSM) are a conceptual framework for using level sets as a tool for numerical analysis of surfaces and shapes. The advantage of the level-set model is that one can perform numerical computations involving curves and surfaces on a ...

. A version from 2010 was released based on the WRF 3.2 as WRF-Fire.

References

* Coen, J., M. Cameron, J. Michalakes, E. Patton, P. Riggan, and K. Yedinak, 2013: ''WRF-Fire: Coupled Weather-Wildland Fire Modeling with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model''. J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol. 52, 16-38, . * Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, Janice L. Coen, Minjeong Kim, ''Data Assimilation for Wildland Fires: Ensemble Kalman filters in coupled atmosphere-surface models''
IEEE Control Systems Magazine 29, Issue 3, June 2009, 47-65
Preprint at , December 2007. * Jan Mandel, Jonathan D. Beezley, and Adam K. Kochanski

ttp://www.geoscientific-model-development.net Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)4, 591-610, 2011.

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