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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cruz, Alexander
In many respects, the most significant issue with regards to the prediction of crown fire behavior is first determining whether a surface fire will develop into a crown fire (that is, identifying the conditions favorable to the initiation or onset of crowning). The next concern…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Alexander
Conifer forest stands are comprised of living and dead biomass in four separate fuel strata according to their vertical distribution and effects on fire behavior (see figure 1): ground fuels-principally the duff layer of the forest floor; surface fuels-the litter layer of the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cruz, Vaillant
The suggestion has been made that most wildland fire operations personnel base their expectations of how a fire will behave largely on experience and, to a lesser extent, on guides to predicting fire behavior (Burrows 1984). Experienced judgment is certainly needed in any…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Behavior Field Reference Guide (FBFRG) was developed as a hands-on user tool for field going Fire Behavior Analysts (FBANs) and Long Term Fire Analysts (LTANs) along with various operation personnel. The guide contains helpful references to fuels, weather, fuel models…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz, Vaillant
This special issue of Fire Management Today (FMT) contains eight articles highlighting the salient points gleaned from the resulting synthesis and supporting research articles-themselves a collaboration between JFSP Projects 09-2-01-11 and 11-1-14-16: 'Extreme Fire Behavior…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cruz
Typically, for wildfires in conifer forests to become large, some degree of crowning must occur. A common axiom in wildland fire management is that approximately 95 percent of area burned is generally caused by less than about 5 percent of the fires. A forest fire at the very…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
When a fire in a conifer forest stand crowns, additional fuel is consumed primarily in the form of needle foliage but also in mosses and lichens, bark flakes, and small woody twigs. The additional canopy fuel consumed by a crown fire combined with the increase in rate of fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cruz
In conifer forests, three broad types of fire are commonly recognized on the basis of the fuel stratum or strata controlling their propagation: ground or subsurface fire, surface fire, and crown fire. Ground or subsurface fires burn very slowly in the duff layer with no visible…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Morvan, Lamorlette
Wind flow is certainly one of the most important factors affecting the behaviour of wildfires. However its effect upon the propagation of the fire front is not yet understood. The relationship between the rate of spread (ROS) and the wind speed velocity appears in the literature…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schoeffler
Recognizing dark bands (dry slots) in satellite water vapor imagery reveals surface and near-surface drying and winds that can adversely affect fire behavior and firefighter safety. A review of the literature regarding mid- to upper-atmosphere influences on wildland fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Vaillant, Cruz
This poster paper presentation provides a summary of the types of information sought from field practitioners regarding the Joint Fire Science Program synthesis project "Crown fire behavior characteristics and prediction in conifer forests: a state-of-knowledge synthesis."
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Ellison, Faulring, Holley, Hornsby, Hudak, Ichoku, Kremens, Loudermilk, Maben, Martinez, O'Brien, Paxton, Schroeder, Zajkowski
An ongoing challenge in fire measurement is obtaining quantitative and validated measurements of fire power (kW m-2) and energy (kJ m-2) across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Our approach to measurement has been hierarchical, where characterization of the fire heat…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This paper constituents the remarks made during the introduction of the special session "Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: A Tribute to George M. Byram (1909-1996) - Pioneering Scientist in Forest Fire Research" held on February 20, 2013, at the International Association of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Hussaini, Okten
Rothermel's wildland surface fire spread model is widely used in North America. The model outputs depend on a number of input parameters, which can be broadly categorized as fuel model, fuel moisture, terrain and wind parameters. Due to the inevitable presence of uncertainty in…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Fourth Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference was held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, February 18-22, 2013. The theme for this conference was At The Crossroads: Looking Toward the Future in a Changing Environment. Joint sponsorship of the conference was by the International…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayes, Kasischke, Billings, Boelman, Colt, Fisher, Goetz, Griffith, Grosse, Hall, Harriss, Karchut, Larson, Mack, McGuire, McLennan, Metsaranta, Miller, Rawlins, Striegel, Sturm, Sweeney, Varner, Wickland, Wullschleger
Climate change in the Arctic and Boreal region is unfolding faster than anywhere else on Earth, resulting in reduced Arctic sea ice, thawing of permafrost soils, decomposition of long- frozen organic matter, widespread changes to lakes, rivers, coastlines, and alterations of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnston, Wooster, Lynham
The temperature and emissivity of forest fire flames play a key role in understanding fire behaviour, modelling fire spread and calculating fire parameters by means of active fire thermal remote sensing. Essential to many of these is the often-made assumption that vegetation…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tachajapong, Lozano, Mahalingam, Weise
The transition of surface fire to live shrub crown fuels was studied through a simplified laboratory experiment using an open-topped wind tunnel. Respective surface and crown fuels used were excelsior (shredded Populus tremuloides wood) and live chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Saperstein, Fay, O'Connor, Reed
The Funny River Fire (AK-KKS-403140) was ignited by humans on May 19, 2014, and burned almost 200,000 acres on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, by early June. Most of the fire was within the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, but it threatened adjacent communities. Four recreational…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant, Ager
Fire behavior modeling and geospatial analysis can provide tremendous insight to land managers in defining both the benefits and potential impacts of fuel treatments in the context of land management goals and public expectations. ArcFuels is a streamlined fuel management…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Irland
Recent work for the Northeastern Forest Fire Protection Compact contains several useful, simple-to- use tools for studying very large fires. This article examines the 112 largest fires nationally from 1997 to 2011 from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) wildfire list…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Han, Braun
The Prometheus Fire Growth Model is a deterministic wildfire simulator. Given weather, topographical and fuel information, the simulated fire front is plotted at equally spaced times. Unpredictability of fire behavior makes deterministic predictions inaccurate. By statistically…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Clements, Butler, Dickinson, Potter, O'Brien
The availability of integrated, quality-assured datasets is limited, reducing our ability to evaluate fire models and tackle fundamental fire questions. To help fill this gap, the Prescribed Fire Combustion and Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiment (RxCADRE) evolved to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sedano, Randerson
Climate-driven changes in the fire regime within boreal forest ecosystems are likely to have important effects on carbon cycling and species composition. In the context of improving fire management options and developing more realistic scenarios of future change, it is important…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide is intended as a reference for US users who may have reason to work with the system in the United States, where English units are primarily used. Keep in mind that the Canadian Forest Service has produced the definitive selection of reference publications and tools…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES