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WRF-Fire consists of the WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting Model) coupled with a fire spread model, based on the level-set 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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Dobrinkova, N., Jordanov, G., Mandel, J. (2011). WRF-Fire Applied in Bulgaria. In: Dimov, I., Dimova, S., Kolkovska, N. (eds) Numerical Methods and Applications. NMA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6046. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18466-6_15
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