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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3141-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-3141-2021
Research article
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19 Oct 2021
Research article |  | 19 Oct 2021

ABWiSE v1.0: toward an agent-based approach to simulating wildfire spread

Jeffrey Katan and Liliana Perez

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Wildfires are an integral part of ecosystems worldwide, but they also pose a serious risk to human life and property. To further our understanding of wildfires and allow experimentation without recourse to live fires, this study presents an agent-based modelling approach to combine the complexity possible with physical models with the ease of computation of empirical models. Model calibration and validation show bottom-up simulation tracks the core elements of complexity of fire across scales.
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