HexFire: A Flexible and Accessible Wildfire Simulator.

ABSTRACT: As fire frequency and severity grow throughout the world, scientists working across a range of disciplines will increasingly need to incorporate wildfire models into their research. However, fire simulators tend to be highly complex, time-consuming to learn, and difficult to parameterize. As a result, embracing these models can prove impractical for scientists and practitioners who are not fire specialists. Here we introduce a parsimonious wildfire simulator named HexFire that has been designed for rapid uptake by investigators who do not specialize in the mechanics of fire spread. HexFire should be useful to such nonspecialists for representing the spread of fire, interactions with fuel breaks, and for integrating wildfire into other types of ecological models. We provide a detailed descr

SUBMITTER: Schumaker NH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9534040 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature