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For external reference on the theory behind the pwsFWI you can go the [https://eamcweb3.usfs.msu.edu/HDW/index.html The Hot-Dry-Windy Index: A New FireWeather Index] site of Michigan State University who adopted it as a tool for climatological analysis. The 2018 article on which I based the software is [https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/9/7/279 The Hot-Dry-Windy Index: A New Fire Weather Index]. This is an open access article under the [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution License].

 

 

On my (HansR) blog you may read [https://meteo-wagenborgen.nl/wp/tag/pwsfwi/ several posts] on the pwsFWI but also on the other fire weather indices in the world notably [https://meteo-wagenborgen.nl/wp/2019/08/11/fire-weather-the-canadian-fwi/ the Canadian FWI]. This complex FWI is used in many places but it is so complex that it is not summarized in equations, but referenced by the articles. The complexity of this FWI was one of the main reasons to create pwsFWI.