The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schullery
From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, Lawson, Alexander, Van Wagner, McAlpine, Lynham, Dube
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Woodward, Titus
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Payette, Morneau, Sirois, Desponts
The recent fire history of northern Quebec biomes (54 000 km2), including the northern Boreal Forest, the southern and northern Forest—Tundra, and the Shrub Tundra, was documented by examining size and dates of 20th century wildfires using tree ring techniques. Results showed…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chrosciewicz
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartigan
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell, Bevilacqua, Stocks
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Staver, Levin
The role of fire and climate in determining savanna and forest distributions requires comprehensive theoretical reevaluation. Empirical studies show that climate constrains maximum tree cover and that fire feedbacks can reduce tree cover substantially, but neither the stability…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Staller
From the text ... '..., in today's world with imcreasing populations, and more people living in the wildland urban interface, prescribed burn practitioners must put more emphasis on smoke management. If we don't manage our smoke and the resulting negative impacts, then the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Cruz
This state-of-knowledge review examines some of the underlying assumptions and limitations associated with the inter-relationships among four widely used descriptors of surface fire behaviour and post-fire impacts in wildland fire science and management, namely Byram's fireline…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ryan, Koerner
From the Conclusions ... 'Fires have impacted cultures for millennia and fire will continue to impact contemporary cultures as well as the remnants of past cultures. The challenge is to manage vagetation/fuels to minimize damage to contemporary cultures as well as the cultural…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vaillant, Alexander, Cruz, Peterson
What is this project about? The Joint Fire Science Program is supporting a project aimed at synthesizing the currently available information on crown fire behavior in conifer forests: onset of crowning; type of crown fire; associated spread rate and firelineintensity; other…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
Fire growth models in WFDSS worksheet with answers from the 2012 Fire Modeling Workshop
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
Geospatial fire modeling considerations in Alaska handout from the 2012 Fire Modeling Workshop
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steufer
The WFR-Chem model can produce valuable smoke emissions and fire spread information along with up to a 72 hour smoke forecast. This model can be used by fire and resouce managers, city and borough personnel and others. Feedback is needed for improved graphics and output.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton, Salazar, Palmer
Controlling wildfires within the wildland/urban interface has proven to be the most complex challenge facing wildland fire agencies. Although program improvements to increase the efficiency of interface suppression efforts have been suggested, the availability of information…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Litwin
Wet and dry bulb temperatures from ventilated and non-ventilated screens can be used to obtain realistic values of relative humidity provided the appropriate psychometric coefficient is used. However, relative humidity from non-ventilated screens are subject to significant error…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McEneaney
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Higgins, Kruse, Piehl
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romme, Despain
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fire simulation models that consider the complex dynamics of weather, fuels, and terrain are essential to forecasting fire behavior. A growing number of such models are available, so understanding the differences in their predictions and sensitivity to drivers of fire behavior…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES