Supplementary Material for

Resolving vorticity-driven lateral fire spread using the WRF-Fire coupled atmosphere-fire numerical model

Colin. C. Simpson[1], Jason J. Sharples[1], and Jason P. Evans[2]
[1] Applied and Industrial Mathematics Research Group, School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.
[2] Climate Change Research Centre, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2014

The data included as supplementary material to this paper include all the files required to run the simulations discussed in the paper. This includes one WRF source code file, an input sounding file, custom terrain files, and a namelist for each simulation. The simulations can be run by following these steps:

1. Download the Advanced Research WRF version 3.5 and extract into the desired location.

2. Run the configure script as per usual (see WRF User Guide v3).

3. Replace the module_initialize_fire.F in the dyn_em/ directory with the file provided. A string search for the term "CCS" will reveal the changes we have made to allow for the use of two custom terrain files: terrain_hgt and terrain_zsf.

4. Compile WRF-Fire with ./compile em_fire as normal.

5. Place the appropriate terrain and sounding files in the run folder and re-name as "terrain_hgt", "terrain_zsf" and "input_sounding".

6. Place the desired namelist.input file in the run folder and re-name as "namelist.input".

7. Run ideal.exe to create the wrfinput_d01 file and then run wrf.exe to run the model, as per usual.