The Global ECMWF Fire Forecasting (GEFF) model is a Fortran program to calculate fire danger indices from atmospheric inputs. It implements the Fire Weather Index, the National Fire Danger Rating System and the McArthur ratings in one single infrastructure. While it was principally designed for gridded data, it can operate with any kind of inputs. The software and functions are part of an experimental open-source project. They are provided as is, without any guarantee. GEFF is licensed under Apache License 2.0 In applying this licence, ECMWF does not waive the privileges and immunities granted to it by virtue of its status as an intergovernmental organisation nor does it submit to any jurisdiction.
Code availability
The code is available through GitHub at: https://github.com/ecmwf-projects/geff
Principal Maintainers:
Francesca Di Giuseppe, francesca.digiuseppe@ecmwf.int
Pedro Maciel, pmaciel@ecmwf.int
If you use this software, please cite:
Di Giuseppe, F., Pappenberger, F., Wetterhall, F., Krzeminski, B., Camia, A., Libertá, G. and San Miguel, J., 2016. The potential predictability of fire danger provided by numerical weather prediction. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 55(11), pp.2469-2491. https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0297.1