WRF-Fire Applied in Bulgaria
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WRF-Fire consists of the WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting Model) coupled with a fire spread model, based on the levelset method. We describe a preliminary application of WRF-Fire to a forest fire in Bulgaria, oportunities for research of forest fire models for Bulgaria, and plans for the development of an Environmental Decision Support Systems which includes computational modeling of fire behavior.
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