Rothermel: Surface Fire Spread Model

Implements the surface fire spread model of Rothermel (1972) <doi:10.2737/INT-RP-115> in R. Additional utilities support uncertainty propagation, selection among standard fuel models, optimization of fuel model parameters by genetic algorithms, and example datasets.

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AuthorGiorgio Vacchiano [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8100-0659>), Davide Ascoli [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2671-5122>)
MaintainerGiorgio Vacchiano <gvacchiano@gmail.com>
LicenseGPL-2
Version1.4.1
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install.packages("Rothermel")

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