On October 14, 2020, the East Troublesome Wildfire ignited. It burnt 193,812 acres over the course of 48 days. Between October 20-23 the wildfire rapidly intensified, exploding from 18,550 acres to 187,964 acres in size.* These visualizations show a Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) simulation of the East Troublesome Wildfire from the perspective of Granby, Colorado. It uses a physics module (WRF-Fire) that incorporates an AI driven model for combustable plant matter known as Beetle Kill.
*https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7242/
Timothy W. Juliano (NCAR/RAL), Amy DeCastro (NCAR/RAL), Branko Kosovic (NCAR/RAL), Catrin Edgeley (Northern Arizona School of Forestry)
Timothy W. Juliano (NCAR/RAL), Amy DeCastro (NCAR/RAL), Branko Kosovic (NCAR/RAL), Catrin Edgeley (Northern Arizona School of Forestry)
This research was enabled by NCAR’s Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) compute and storage resources. Cheyenne, a 5.34-petaflops, high-performance computer built for NCAR by SGI, featuring 145,152 Intel Xeon processor cores in 4,032 dual-socket nodes (36 cores/node) and 313 TB of total memory.
WRF-Fire
Scott Pearse
VAPOR
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