Published 2014
| Version v1
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The Global ECMWF Fire Forecast (GEFF) model
Description
The GEFF model GEFF is the modeling component of the European Forest Fire Information System, which is being developed in the framework of the Copernicus Emergency Services to provide a platform of shared information on fire danger to civil protection authorities of 38 nations across Europe. GEFF calculates daily prediction up to 10 days ahead of all the indices from the U.S. Forest Service NFDRS, the Canadian Forest Service FWI, and the Australian McArthur (Mark 5) rating systems using the ECMWF forecasting system as the atmospheric forcings. The model provides outputs in terms of fire danger indices that are then distributed to the EFFIS network and used among the European civil protections.