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Posted: • General

Over the last 10 years WindNinja has seen sustained development and is now widely used by operational wildland fire management both in the U.S. and abroad. In case you're wondering who uses it besides you, here are some quick statistics:

  • 20+ peer-reviewed journal articles
  • 7+ million model runs in the last year by 3056 unique users in 70 countries
  • Used by WFDSS, FlamMap, Prometheus, Wildfire Analyst, IMETs, FBANs, ARAs
  • Non-fire: training search and rescue dogs, simulating canyon incision on Mars, wind erosion, paragliding conditions

We want to continue to grow and improve the model, but development and maintenance of the model is costly and we currently have no dedicated support for this purpose. We've reached a point where we need to find additional funding to support these efforts. Here's how you can help us keep WindNinja going:

If WindNinja has been useful for your work and you would like to see our efforts continue, please let us know how you use WindNinja and why it has been useful for you by answering a few short questions here:

https://goo.gl/forms/dGKmAW60grZ41qdB2

We will use this feedback in our attempts to garner support for WindNinja development. You can also send feedback to wind.ninja.support@gmail.com.