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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yedinak, Cohen, Forthofer, Finney
Fire spread through a fuel bed produces an observable curved combustion interface. This shape has been schematically represented largely without consideration for fire spread processes. The shape and dynamics of the flame profile within the fuel bed likely reflect the mechanisms…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McAllister, Finney, Cohen
Extreme weather often contributes to crown fires, where the fire spreads from one tree crown to the next as a series of piloted ignitions. An important aspect in predicting crown fires is understanding the ignition of fuel particles. The ignition criterion considered in this…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Karau
Fire managers are now realizing that wildfires can be beneficial because they can reduce hazardous fuels and restore fire-dominated ecosystems. A software tool that assesses potential beneficial and detrimental ecological effects from wildfire would be helpful to fire management…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Frankman, Webb, Butler, Latham
Experiments were conducted wherein wood shavings and Ponderosa pine needles in quiescent air were subjected to a steady radiation heat flux from a planar ceramic burner. The internal temperature of these particles was measured using fine diameter (0.076 mm diameter) type K…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Drury, Karau, Hessburg, Reynolds
This paper presents modeling methods for mapping fire hazard and fire risk using a research model called FIREHARM (FIRE Hazard and Risk Model) that computes common measures of fire behavior, fire danger, and fire effects to spatially portray fire hazard over space. FIREHARM can…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Alexander
To control and use wildland fires safely and effectively depends on creditable assessments of fire potential, including the propensity for crowning in conifer forests. Simulation studies that use certain fire modelling systems (i.e. NEXUS, FlamMap, FARSITE, FFE-FVS (Fire and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Troendle, MacDonald, Luce, Larsen
There have been numerous studies worldwide demonstrating that changes in forest density can cause a change in water yield. Bosch and Hewlett (1982), Hibbert (1967), Stednick (1996) and Troendle and Leaf (1980) have summarized the findings from most of these studies. In general,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kurth, Parkinson, Pence, Opperman, Barborinas, Taber, Burgard, McCrea, Sorbel, Wilmore, Fay
Calibrations on FSPro analyses that started May 27 resulted in rules and guidelines that appeared to be working on numerous fires across the state and are now the basis for initial analyses. These rules/guidelines appear to be working for the pre-green up conditions we were…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Cohen, Grenfell, Yedinak
Many fuel beds, especially live vegetation canopies (conifer forests, shrub fields, bunch-grasses) contain gaps between vegetation clumps. Fires burning in these fuel types often display thresholds for spread that are observed to depend on environmental factors like wind, slope…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Omi, Martinson
The 2008 Request for Applications from the Joint Fire Science Program called for a synthesis of the extant literature that addresses the effectiveness of fuel treatments. We employed a four pronged approach to address this task, including several scoping exercises with land…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Linn, Sieg, Koo, Winterkamp
To provide critical spotting information to fire managers and the developers of operational wildfire behavior models, a physics-based spotting model has been developed and used to characterize potential spotting hazard in complex wildland urban interface (WUI) fires. The spread…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coleman, Page-Dumroese, Archuleta, Badger, Chung, Venn, Loeffler, Jones, McElligott
We describe a portable pyrolysis system for bioenergy production from forest biomass that minimizes long-distance transport costs and provides for nutrient return and long-term soil carbon storage. The cost for transporting biomass to conversion facilities is a major impediment…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Loeffler, Butler, Chung, Hummel
The emissions from delivering and burning forest treatment residue biomass in a boiler for thermal energy were compared with onsite disposal by pile-burning and using fossil fuels for the equivalent energy. Using biomass for thermal energy reduced carbon dioxide emissions on…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wynsma, Keyes
Silviculturists and ecologists may recommend land management prescriptions that are designed to be resilient to changing climatic conditions. When considering biomass utilization opportunities that may result from climate-change treatments, it really doesn?t matter what species…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Janhäll, Andreae, Pöschl
Aerosol emissions from vegetation fires have a large impact on air quality and climate. In this study, we use published experimental data and different fitting procedures to derive dynamic particle number and mass emission factors (EFPN, EFPM) related to the fuel type, burning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smail
LANDFIRE total fuel change tool (ToFu Delta) works through a Microsoft Access database to produce spatial results in Arc Map based on rule sets devised by the user which principally take into account the existing vegetation type (EVT), existing vegetation cover (EVC), existing…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Laughlin
Risk is a combined statement of the probability that something of value will be damaged and some measure of the damage's adverse effect. Wildfires burning in the uncharacteristic fuel conditions now typical throughout the Western United States can damage ecosystems and adversely…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elliot, Miller, Audin
Fire suppression in the last century has resulted in forests with excessive amounts of biomass, leading to more severe wildfires, covering greater areas, requiring more resources for suppression and mitigation, and causing increased onsite and offsite damage to forests and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Loomis, González-Cabán
The need for monetary benefits of protecting spotted owl old-growth forest habitat from fire in the early 1990s was the catalyst for application of nonmarket valuation techniques to fire management within the US Forest Service. Two large-scale general public surveys successfully…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is the successor to BEHAVE, which was first used in the field in 1984. It is public domain software, available for free use on personal computers. Information on user communities and fire management applications can be useful in designing next…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
A guide produced for RX-310 Introduction to Fire Effects class in Alaska summarizing the properties of moss duff—the primary surface fuel in Alaska’s interior coniferous forests. Eric reviews fuelbed properties of duff, including bulk density, depth, surface area to volume ratio…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This project used computer game technology to create highly interactive forest data visualization and interaction not possible with the traditional geographic information system approach. Known as GNNViz (Gradient Nearest Neighbor Vegetation Map Visualization), the program was…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This study compared citizen responses to surveys in 2002 and 2008 about fuels reduction programs by federal land management agencies. The researchers attempted to identify factors that influence public opinion and promote citizen support for agency actions. The study design…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Just over 50 years ago, predicting soil erosion was a time-consuming manual process. These methods have evolved over time and now include models such as the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP), which helps simulate the important physical processes that result in soil erosion…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chojnacky, Jenkins
Over three thousand published equations purport to estimate biomass of individual trees and/or branch, bole, bark, or foliage components for North American tree species. These equations are often based on small samples and often provide different estimates for trees of the same…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES