Implementing a state-of-the-science fire behavior model in the UFS
The Weather Program Office is working with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to incorporate a state-of-the-science fire behavior model (WRF-FIRE) that accounts for fire-atmosphere feedbacks into the Unified Forecast System (UFS). The fire behavior model will largely increase the UFS’s potential to carry out fundamental fire research, provide predictions of the fire evolution,…