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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Parisien, Kafka, Todd, Hirsch, Lavoie
This study examines the spatial relationship between large recent burns and their effect on the probability of burning in the western boreal forest of Canada. The burn probability (BP) provides an estimate of the present likelihood that a given point (e.g., cell) on a landscape…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wilmer, Aplet
Most scientists agree that fuel reduction is required to protect communities and restore fire-dependent ecosystems, but they disagree about exactly where and how much fuel treatment is needed. To better inform this debate, we evaluated the quality of GIS maps being used to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

MacGregor, González-Cabán
Of the thousands of fires that occur each year on publicly managed lands, the vast majority are suppressed by initial actions undertaken by the local administrative unit. However, on relatively rare occasions fires become exceptionally large and can result in enormous resource…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Espinoza, Cui, Martell
FireSmart forest management strategies often include landscape level fuel treatments that fragment the landscape to reduce the risk of extreme fire events. We describe a decision support system that is being developed for incorporating FireSmart forest management strategies into…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prestemon, Butry, Pye, Abt, Holmes, Mercer
Wildfires in the west respond strongly to weather and climatic factors, but it is not clear how models of wildfire ignitions and wildfire area differ or what factors significantly affect them. We present panel cross-sectional models of wildfire ignitions and area by ignition…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

MacGregor, Dammann, Anderson
As federal land management agencies move into the 21st Century, one of the most challenging issues they face is the management of fuels to achieve both ecological objectives and to influence the potential for catastrophic and uncharacteristic wildfires. At a broad policy level,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lile, Inbau
Wildland fire coordination centers have the difficult task of determining where to position critical wildland firefighting resources. This task is compounded when several large fires occur simultaneously across vast geographic areas. According to the National Interagency Fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Golberg, Morgan
Today, a variety of tools are critical to wildland fire and fuels management. They range from the Pulaski to the latest fire behavior model. These tools, many of them increasingly available via the Internet, are useful to wildland fire researchers, managers, policymakers, and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dether, Acheson, Schoeberl
Airshed characterizations were developed to provide a mid-scale air quality assessment in support of programmatic and project level land management planning processes. These airshed assessments were developed to serve as a consistent and systematic approach for evaluating air…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Paragi, Smart, Worum, Haggstrom
Modern fire suppression has the potential to alter the natural distribution of forest cover types and age classes, which has consequences for resource management. A 21,000 ha prescribed burn to enhance wildlife habitat and secondarily reduce continuity of coniferous fuels was…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Scott
Originally designed as a short-life-span tool to explore the links between surface and crown fire behavior models, NEXUS was first released as an Excel spreadsheet in 1998. The modeling concepts developed for NEXUS have since been used in the Crown Mass program of Fuels…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Scott, Burgan
With the publication of his surface fire spread model in 1972, Rothermel provided a listing of 11 preliminary fuel models. A fuel model is a complete set of fuel inputs needed to use the Rothermel fire spread model (load and surface-are-to-volume ratio by size class and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Potter
The combustion of woody materials releases significant amounts of moisture into the atmosphere. The energy required to evaporate this moisture is accounted for in the computation of fire energy release, as a loss from overall combustion energy. The moisture and energy are not…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forthofer, Butler, Shannon, Finney, Bradshaw, Stratton
It is readily acknowledged that wind speed and direction can have a major influence on fire intensity and rate of spread. Accurate modeling of fire behavior requires either assumptions about the wind flow acting on the flames, or modeling of the flow field. Simple surface…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Coen
This presentation describes the further development and application of a coupled atmosphere-fire model that uses a sophisticated high-resolution meteorological numerical model to predict the local winds which are then used as input to the prediction of fire spread. The heat and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Varner
In 2004, there is a new ICS standard for mapping fires using ArcGIS and storing the data in a Personal GeoDataBase. By storing the data in a PGeoDB, it removes all of the complexity of storing different shapes for every different part of the fire in different folders and then…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Goodman
During the summer of 1999, geospatial technologies became prevalent in wildland fire management. A group of interagency wildland fire geospatial specialist proposed to the Information Resource Management Working Team (IRMWT) under the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Quayle, Lannom, Finco, Norton, Warnick
The Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) in Salt Lake City, Utah uses imagery acquired by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor to produce wildland fire maps for the United States. The 'Active Fire Maps' provide a synoptic view…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kremens, Faulring, Hardy
We have measured the surface temperature and emissivity of the forest floor as a function of time after the passage of the flaming fire front. This information is essential for remote sensing of wildland fires from airborne and satellite platforms. The goal of this project is to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Greenfield, Smith, Chamberlain
For several years the USDA Forest Service has been making advances to the airborne thermal infrared imaging capabilities for wildland fire detection and mapping. The new 'Phoenix' system represents the first time that a high productivity, digital, geo-corrected product will be…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Querciagrossa-Sand, Stutler, Goldwater, Bennett
The National Weather Service (NWS) has been a major contributor to the success of the U.S. Wildfire Program for over 67 years. During that time, Incident Meteorologists, (IMET's) have delivered predictive services that have allowed Incident Managers to fight fires aggressively…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Nester, Vanbussem
FXNet is the latest technology Incident Meteorologists (IMETS) have at their disposal to collect meteorological data while onsite at wildland fires. During the fire season of 2002 FXNet was used in select areas to test the equipment and get the IMET's feedback on how it could be…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Perminov
The problem of the initial stage of a high altitude radiant energy source effect on the underlying surface of the Earth covered with the forest vegetation is discussed below. The objective of the present research is to define deimensions of the ignition zone and to study…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Goodrick, Cunningham, Hussaini, Xia, Linn
A compressible, non-hydrostatic model is used to investigate atmospheric circulations induced by annular surface heat sources in a vertically sheared crossflow. Annular heat sources are used to approximate the influence of a wildland fire on the atmospheric flow. A series of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Amiro, Logan, Wotton, Flannigan, Stocks, Todd, Martell
The weather experienced during large fires (> 200 ha in area) was analyzed for Canada from 1959 to 1999. Maximum values of Canadian Fire Weather Index parameters were calculated using interpolated daily weather data for each fire. Depending on ecozone, the means of parameters…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS