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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Yellowstone: the smoke clears

Barbee, Schullery
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The fires and fire policy

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

Special report: the incineration of Yellowstone

Williams
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Smoke management modeling in the Bureau of Land Management

Riebau, Sestak
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Yellowstone wildlife: populations in process

Singer, Schullery
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Smoke gets in your eyes and lungs

[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest fire smoke and a test of hemispherical photography for predicting understorey light in Bornean tropical rain forest

Clearwater, Nifinluri, van Gardingen
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Management implications of recent changes in spatial patterns of interior northwest forests

Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

National strategic plan: modeling and data systems for wildland fire and air quality

Sandberg, Hardy, Ottmar, Snell, Acheson, Peterson, Seamon, Lahm, Wade
From the text...'Major policy initiatives and implementation of new management strategies are currently underway in both air resource and fire management. Land managers are rapidly expanding the use of fire to manage ecosystems, while air resource managers are accelerating…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An inventory of particulate matter and air toxic emissions from prescribed fires in the United States for 1989: final report

Peterson, Ward
In the United States, prescribed burning of wildlands is practiced on over 2 million hectares of land each year. Based on our survey conducted in 1989, approximately 70, 20, and 10% of this burning occurs in the Southeast, Pacific Northwest, and Rocky Mountain regions,…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Western national forests: a cohesive strategy is needed to address catastrophic wildfire threats : report to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, Committee on Resources, House of Representatives

Coles, Conlon, Cotton, Eisenstadt, Goldfarb, Hutchison, Joy, Wolter
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A look at wildland fires in Mexico

Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ecological consequences of the 1988 fires in the Greater Yellowstone area: Final Report: The Greater Yellowstone Postfire Ecological Assessment Workshop

Christensen, Agee, Brussard, Hughes, Knight, Minshall, Peek, Pyne, Swanson, Wells, Thomas, Williams, Wright
From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Smoke-haze from the 1997 Indonesian forest fires: effects on pollution levels, local climate, atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and tree photosynthesis

Davies, Unam
Atmospheric composition, local climate and sapling gas exchange were monitored to assess the short-term effects of smoke-haze from the 1997 Indonesian forest fires. Atmospheric concentrations of particulate matter, SO2, CO, CH4 and CO2, and relative humidity were elevated, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Yellowstone wildfire of 1988 and what really happened to the birdlife

McEneaney
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

On uncertainty in the computation of global emissions from biomass burning

Robinson
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning guidelines in the northern Great Plains

Higgins, Kruse, Piehl
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A numerical study of buoyant plumes in cross-flow conditions

Porterie, Loraud, Morvan, Larini
A computational procedure for predicting the buoyant plume above a line fire in a cross wind is reported. The present model takes into account the interaction between the plume and the surrounding flow by solving the two-dimensional equations for the conservation of mass,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Handbook for criteria pollutant inventory development: a beginner's guide for point and area sources

This document will help state, local, and tribal air pollution control agency personnel compile an inventory of criteria pollutant emissions from stationary (point and area) sources. The information contained in this document is intended to serve as a reference guide only, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Trace gas emissions from laboratory biomass fires measured by open-path Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: fires in grass and surface fuels

Goode, Yokelson, Susott, Ward
The trace gas emissions from six biomass fires, including three grass fires, were measured using a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer coupled to an open-path, multipass cell (OP-FTIR). The quantified emissions consisted of carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, water vapor,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Smoke transport by sheared winds

Trelles, McGrattan, Baum
The effect that the wind's vertical variation has on fire plume behaviour is investigated. A parabolized set of governing equations are discretized using finite differences to arrive at the numerical model. Lagrangian particles are used to visualize the flow, account for…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Economic principles of wildland fire management policy

Hesseln, Rideout
Evolving wildfire management policies are aimed at more comprehensive treatments of current wildland fire management problems. Key policies are identified that affect wildfire and fuels management. Policies are discussed in the context of institutional factors such as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Future concerns and needs - air resource management

Sandberg
Description not entered.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sharing the slash burning decision: air resource management

Sandberg
Description not entered.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

National strategic plan: modeling and data systems for wildland fire and air quality

Sandberg, Hardy, Ottmar, Snell, Acheson, Peterson, Seamon, Lahm, Wade
This strategic plan is a technical discussion of the implementation and development of models and data systems used to manage the air quality impacts of wildland and prescribed fires. Strategies and priorities in the plan were generated by the Express Team (chartered by the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES