Code

Simulating wildfire is a complicated task that has been tackled by many different computer models. Our effort to improve predictions of wildfire behavior in the Arctic Boreal Zone involves bringing together code from multiple sources. This page gives links to some of these sources.

DVM-DOS-TEM

DVM-DOS-TEM (the Dynamic Vegetation Model-Dynamic Organic Soil-Terrestrial Ecosystem Model) is a process based biogeochemical ecosystem model developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It is capable of realistically simulating the dynamics of permafrost soils found at northern latitudes. DVM-DOS-TEM currently has a prognostic wildfire module. The goal of the Fireweed Project is to revise the wildfire module to more realistically capture the feedbacks between climate, fire, and soil carbon stores.

So far I have made some minimal initial modifications to the models wildfire settings options (FlameOn branch here). This code is being tested and will be rolled into the model when that is done.

The Fireweed Code Library

The Fireweed Fie Code Library is our coding sandbox for implementing, testing, visualizing, and experimenting with fire code. Currently this code incudes our R implementation of the Rothermel and Albini’s fire spread model and related equations.

Burnup

We have put together a repository that includes the original source code of the Burnup wildfire fuel consumption model by Frank A. Albini and collaborators as well as our modernized versions of the code.