  We introduce several useful utilities in development for the creation and
analysis of real wildland fire simulations using WRF and SFIRE. These utilities
exist as standalone programs and scripts as well as extensions to other well
known software. Python web scrapers automate the process of downloading and
preprocessing atmospheric and surface data from common sources. Other scripts
simplify the domain setup by creating parameter files automatically.
Integration with Google Earth allows users to explore the simulation in a 3D
environment along with real surface imagery. Postprocessing scripts provide the
user with a number of output data formats compatible with many commonly used
visualization suites allowing for the creation of high quality 3D renderings.
As a whole, these improvements build toward a unified web application that
brings a sophisticated wildland fire modeling environment to scientists and
users alike.
