User Guide

In addition to this User Guide:

• Technical details of the model can be found in ELMFIRE’s Technical Reference.

• Tutorials are available in ELMFIRE’s Tutorials Page.

• Model verification test cases are in the Verification Guide.

• Model validation simulations are in the Validation Guide.

• Basic Inputs and Outputs
  • Inputs
    • Fuels, weather, and topography
    • Assets at Risk
    • Computational domain size, extents, and resolution
    • Time
    • Fire Initialization
      • Point source ignitions
      • Active fire perimeters
  • Outputs
• Physics and Numerics options
  • Elliptical dimensions
  • Crown fire
  • Wind fluctuations
  • Miscellaneous inputs
• Spotting
• Suppression
  • Initial Attack
  • Extended Attack
• Monte Carlo Analysis
  • Randomized ignition locations
  • Randomized weather streams
  • Spatial and temporal perturbations of input rasters
  • Randomized wind fluctuation intensities
  • Outputs