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The history of wildfire modeling
- joconne 6y agoThe Canadian wildfire forecasting model can be downloaded at http://www.firegrowthmodel.ca/prometheus/software_e.php http://www.firegrowthmodel.ca/prometheus/software_e.php for those curious. I've always found these predictions lacking due to limitations in weather forecasting.
- monalisauzi 6y agoCool, thanks for sharing! Yeah, there are also issues reconciling the different scales of weather data (hundreds of meters to kilometers resolution), fuel data (~30 m) , and fire dynamics (sub-centimeter). It's still pretty amazing what they've been able to do with what they have, and weather forecasting has gotten so much better in the last decade! It's a pretty exciting time for the field.
- pmiller2 6y agoThis is great, but why is it on the Triplebyte blog?
- TacoSteemers 6y agoShe has another article about the basics of modeling: https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-fire-spreads-mathematical-models-and-simulators https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-fire-spreads-mathematical-mo...