What is the Social-Climate Fire Extension?

The purpose of the Social-Climate Fire (or the Social Climate Related Pyrogenic Processes and their Landscape Effects: SCRPPLE) is to simulate fire regime change due to climatic and social factors. The climate is represented primarily via a Fire Weather Index. Social processes are represented as explicit representation of suppression, accidental ignitions, and prescribed fire. Human manipulation of the vegetation is represented through fine fuels and ladder fuels. SCRPPLE uses a very ‘data first’ philosophy: The primary mechanisms (ignition, spread, site mortality, and cohort mortality) are parameterized via statistical analyses of landscape-scale data.

Citation

Scheller, R.M., A. Kretchun, T.J. Hawbaker, P.D. Henne. 2019. A landscape model of variable social-ecological fire regimes. Ecological Modelling 401: 85-93.

Release Notes

• Latest release: Version 4.0.1 — November 2024
• Full release details found in the User Guide and on GitHub.
• View User Guide.

• User Guide for Climate Library

• Copyright: The LANDIS-II Foundation

Requirements

You need:

• The LANDIS-II model v8.0 installed on your computer.
• Extension Installer
• Example files (see below)

Download and Install the Extension

• The latest version can be downloaded from GitHub. (Look for the download icon in the upper right corner.) Launch the installer.

Example Files

Example files can be downloaded from GitHub.

Supporting R-Code

We also provide R-code that has been used to parameterize SCRPPLE. This R-code is provided ‘as is’ and no support is implied. R code on GitHub

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 (GitHub ID required).