Rothermel (version 1.2)

Rothermel fire spread model for R

Description

R build of Rothermel's (1972) model for surface fire rate of spread with some additional utilities (uncertainty propagation, standard fuel model selection, fuel model optimization by genetic algorithm) and sample datasets.

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install.packages('Rothermel')

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Version

1.2

License

GPL-2

Maintainer

Giorgio Vacchiano

Last Published

November 10th, 2014

Functions in Rothermel (1.2)

gaRoth

Function to carry out optimization of fuel model by genetic algorithms

firexp

field fire experiments in Vauda Nature Reserve, Italy

SFM_metric

Standard fuel models (Albini 1976, Scott & Burgan 2005)

Rothermel

Rothermel surface fire spread model for R

rosunc

Function to carry out uncertainty propagation analysis on Rothermel's (1972) fire spread model

ros

Function to predict Rothermel's (1972) rate of spread [m/min] for surface headfires

bestFM

Function to select best standard fuel model for observed fire rate of spread

scenarios

Moisture scenarios by Scott & Burgan (2005)