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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jandt
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolken
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Ziel
This presentation analyzed factors that may influence fires burning or slowing in recent fires, including season, fuels, burn severity of first fire, topography, time since fire, weather, and random or factors line up.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Littell, McKenzie
Climate and fire are strongly linked, although the relationship between them is contingent on fuels and thus fire responses to climate variability and change vary considerably across ecosystems, fuels management, and land use. By comparing relationships between climate and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Shankar, Keane, Stavros, Heilman, Fox, Riebau
Smoke from wildfires has adverse biological and social consequences, and various lines of evidence suggest that smoke from wildfires in the future may be more intense and widespread, demanding that methods be developed to address its effects on people, ecosystems, and the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tirmenstein, Long, Heward
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boulanger, Gauthier, Burton
Broad-scale fire regime modelling is frequently based on large ecological and (or) administrative units. However, these units may not capture spatial heterogeneity in fire regimes and may thus lead to spatially inaccurate estimates of future fire activity. In this study, we…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Horel, Ziel, Galli, Pechmann, Dong
A web-based set of tools has been developed to integrate weather, fire danger and fire behaviour information for the Great Lakes region of the United States. Weather parameters obtained from selected observational networks are combined with operational high-resolution gridded…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kreye, Brewer, Morgan, Varner, Smith, Hoffman, Ottmar
Mastication is an increasingly common fuels treatment that redistributes 'ladder' fuels to the forest floor to reduce vertical fuel continuity, crown fire potential, and fireline intensity, but fuel models do not exist for predicting fire behavior in these fuel types. Recent…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Matthews
The moisture content of dead fuels is an important determinant of many aspects of bushfire behaviour. Understanding the relationships of fuel moisture with weather, fuels and topography is useful for fire managers and models of fuel moisture are an integral component of fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews
The BehavePlus Fire Modeling System is among the most widely used systems for wildland fire prediction. It is designed for use in a range of tasks including wildfire behaviour prediction, prescribed fire planning, fire investigation, fuel hazard assessment, fire model…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lehsten, de Groot, Flannigan, George, Harmand, Balzter
Wildfires are a major driver of ecosystem development and contributor to carbon emissions in boreal forests. We analyzed the contribution of fires of different fire size classes to the total burned area and suggest a novel fire characteristic, the characteristic fire size, i.e.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams
The purpose of this study was to spatially represent shrub fuel matrices accurately and at fine resolution for use in physics-based fire behavior simulations. Terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging (T-LiDAR) was used to measure shrub fuel beds in laboratory settings before and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prince
Wildland fuels and fire behavior have been the focus of numerous studies and models which provide operational support to firefighters. However, fuel and fire complexity in live shrubs has resulted in unexpected and sometimes aggressive fire behavior. The combustion of live fuels…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barkley
We've seen it on the news, extreme fire behavior in areas where wildlands meet rural developments, an area called the wildland-urban interface (WUI). At first look all you see are buildings burnt to the ground - but look again. Those piles of ash that were once a family home are…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer, Butler, McHugh, Finney, Bradshaw, Stratton, Shannon, Wagenbrenner
The effect of fine-resolution wind simulations on fire growth simulations is explored. The wind models are (1) a wind field consisting of constant speed and direction applied everywhere over the area of interest; (2) a tool based on the solution of the conservation of mass only…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Forthofer, Butler, Wagenbrenner
For this study three types of wind models have been defined for simulating surface wind flow in support of wildland fire management: (1) a uniform wind field (typically acquired from coarse-resolution (~4 km) weather service forecast models); (2) a newly developed mass-…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chief, Daigle, Lynn, Whyte
The recognition of climate change issues facing tribal communities and indigenous peoples in the United States is growing, and understanding its impacts is rooted in indigenous ethical perspectives and systems of ecological knowledge. This foundation presents a context and guide…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evans
Invasive species, non-native plants, insects, and diseases can devastate forests. They outcompete native species, replace them in the ecosystem, and even drive keystone forest species to functional extinction. Invasives have negative effects on forest hydrology, carbon storage,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wotton
Mike Wotton visited Fairbanks in August 2014 to talk with managers and researchers about the further development and enhancement of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS), which is the system used universally across Canada (and in other areas, including Alaska)…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), in partnership with the Association for Fire Ecology, offers Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) awards yearly to a handful of top-quality graduate students conducting research in fire science. GRIN awards are intended to nurture the next…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forest conservation and management in the Anthropocene: adaptation of science, policy, and practices
Climate change is but one aspect of the Anthropocene, a new epoch in which the effects of human activities have become the predominant force in the global biosphere. More than just an overlay on the traditional concerns of sustainable natural resource management, the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
El Houssami, Lamorlette, Simeoni, Morvan
The main goal of this study is to determine the applicability of a multiphase formulation (Larini et al. 1998) using the LES methodology for the prediction of a small-scale burning of porous forest fuel samples in a Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) based physical fire model,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Alexander
Operational guides for predicting various aspects of wildland fire behavior, including crowning, are generally dependent on mathematical models that can take a variety of forms. The degree of accuracy in predictions of crown fire behavior is dependent on the model's…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES