scholarly journals IMPROVING THE INTEROPERABILITY OF DISASTER MODELS: A CASE STUDY OF PROPOSING FIREML FOR FOREST FIRE MODEL

Author(s):  
W. Jiang ◽  
F. Wang ◽  
Q. Meng ◽  
Z. Li ◽  
B. Liu ◽  
...  

This paper presents a new standardized data format named Fire Markup Language (FireML), extended by the Geography Markup Language (GML) of OGC, to elaborate upon the fire hazard model. The proposed FireML is able to standardize the input and output documents of a fire model for effectively communicating with different disaster management systems to ensure a good interoperability. To demonstrate the usage of FireML and testify its feasibility, an adopted forest fire spread model being compatible with FireML is described. And a 3DGIS disaster management system is developed to simulate the dynamic procedure of forest fire spread with the defined FireML documents. The proposed approach will enlighten ones who work on other disaster models' standardization work.

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 177 ◽  
Author(s):  
TL Clark ◽  
MA Jenkins ◽  
JL Coen ◽  
DR Packham

A numerical atmospheric model is coupled with a simple dry eucalyptus forest fire model to create a wildfire simulation model. This is used to show how certain atmospheric conditions can lead to commonly observed forest fire behavior. Using short line fires, simulations show that with moderate winds, the fire line interacts with the updraft ahead of it causing the fire line to curve forward into a conical shape. Other experiments show that when ambient winds change with height, a pair of rotating updrafts at the curved fire front can touch down within the fire and break up the fire line. We also demonstrate 'dynamic fingering', in which the rotating columns near the fire front intensify to tornado strength and can result in rapid and strong increases in the fire spread rate.


2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (S1) ◽  
pp. 104-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qijiang Zhu ◽  
Taizong Rong ◽  
Rui Sun

Author(s):  
Paul Charbonneau

This chapter explores how a “natural” process generates dynamically something that is conceptually similar to a percolation cluster by using the case of forest fires. It first provides an overview of the forest-fire model, which is essentially a probabilistic cellular automata, before discussing its numerical implementation using the Python code. It then describes a representative simulation showing the triggering, growth, and decay of a large fire in a representative forest-fire model simulation on a small 100 x 100 lattice. It also considers the behavior of the forest-fire model as well as its self-organized criticality and concludes with an analysis of the advantages and limitations of wildfire management. The chapter includes exercises and further computational explorations, along with a suggested list of materials for further reading.


1994 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 856-860
Author(s):  
Barbara Drossel ◽  
Siegfried Clar ◽  
Franz Schwabl

Abstract We modify the rules of the self-organized critical forest-fire model in one dimension by allowing the fire to jum p over holes of ≤ k sites. An analytic calculation shows that not only the size distribution of forest clusters but also the size distribution of fires is characterized by the same critical exponent as in the nearest-neighbor model, i.e. the critical behavior of the model is universal. Computer simulations confirm the analytic results.


1997 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 2174-2183 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Clar ◽  
K. Schenk ◽  
F. Schwabl

1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (23) ◽  
pp. 3739-3742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Drossel ◽  
Siegfried Clar ◽  
Franz Schwabl

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