Coupled atmosphere-wildland fire modeling with WRF 3.3 and SFIRE 2011
Coupled atmosphere-wildland fire modeling with WRF 3.3 and SFIRE 2011
We describe the physical model, numerical algorithms, and software structure of WRF-Fire. WRF-Fire consists of a fire-spread model, implemented by the level-set method, coupled with the Weather Research and Forecasting model. In every time step, the fire model inputs the surface wind, which drives the fire, and outputs the heat …