What is the Base Wind Extension?

Base Wind generates circular, elliptical, or linear wind events, dependent upon wind speed. Wind events are not sensitive to landscape continuity. Inputs are dependent upon ecoregion specific inputs.

Release Notes

• Latest official release: Version 3.1 — April 2019
• View User Guide.
• Full release details found in the User Guide and on GitHub.

Requirements

To use Base Wind, you need:

• The LANDIS-II model v7.0 installed on your computer.
• Example files (see below)

Download

Version 3.1 can be downloaded here. To install it on your computer, launch the installer.

Example Files

LANDIS-II requires a global parameter file for your scenario, and separate parameter files for each extension.

Example files are here.

Citation

Mladenoff, David J., and Hong S. He. “Design, behavior and application of LANDIS, an object-oriented model of forest landscape disturbance and succession.” Spatial modeling of forest landscape change: approaches and applications. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (1999): 125-162.

Support

If you have a question, please contact Robert Scheller. You can also ask for help in the LANDIS-II users group.

If you come across any issue or suspected bug, please post about it in the issue section of the Github repository (GitID required).

Author

The LANDIS-II Foundation

Mail : rschell@ncsu.edu