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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ottmar
Fuels are often defined based on the physical characteristics of live and dead biomass that contribute to wildland fire. Because these characteristics affect the character, size, intensity, and duration of fires, fuels are important to the understanding of fire behavior and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Keane
A 23-minute video in which Robert Keane and Wendel Hann discuss advances in fire technology, particularly modeling, assessments, and mapping, since 2000, and technological needs for the future, including those that include climate change. Presented at the Fifth International…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Werth
Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Jones
The FRCC Mapping Tool quantifies the departure of vegetation conditions and fire regimes from a set of reference conditions representing the historical range of variation. The tool, which operates from an ArcGIS platform, derives several metrics of departure (e.g., vegetation…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant
Wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning on federal lands in the U.S. is a complex problem that often requires advanced fire behavior modeling and intensive spatial data analyses. Both the benefits and potential impacts of proposed fuel treatments must be…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ager
The Landscape Treatment Designer (LTD) is a multicriteria spatial prioritization and optimization system to help design and explore landscape fuel treatment scenarios. The program fills a gap between fire model programs such as FlamMap, and planning systems such as ArcFuels, in…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett
Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) is an interagency, standardized tool for determining the degree of departure from reference condition vegetation structure and composition and fire regimes. FRCC metrics can help guide management objectives and set priorities for treatments.…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strand, Hyde
WFAT provides an interface between ArcMap, FlamMap 5, and the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), combining their strengths into a spatial fire behavior and fire effects analysis tool in GIS. In the webinar, you will learn how to use WFAT to locate potential fuel treatment…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
On April 18, 2012, Duncan Lutes (RMRS Fire Modeling Institute, Missoula, MT) presented a webinar hosted by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. FOFEM is a computer program for predicting first order fire effects including tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke production, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Toney, Jones
Chris Toney (US Forest Service, RMRS/LANDFIRE Project) and Jeff Jones (RMRS Wildland Fire Management RD&A, Whitefish, MT), presented the webinar titled LANDFIRE Data Access Tool, on February 15, 2012 at 12 pm MST. The LANDFIRE Data Access Tool (LFDAT) allows users to…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smail, Martin
The LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool (LFTFC) allows users to edit LANDFIRE fuels attributes and associated layers directly with an ArcMap Toolbar. This webinar provides an overview of LFTFC's capabilities to edit and add rule sets for changing fuel attributes based on existing…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Modeling large fire frequency and burned area in Canadian terrestrial ecosystems with Poisson models
Large wildland fires are major disturbances that strongly influence the carbon cycling and vegetation dynamics of Canadian boreal ecosystems. Although large wildland fires have recently received much scrutiny in scientific study, it is still a challenge for researchers to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weng, Luo, Wang, Wang, Hayes, McGuire, Hastings, Schimel
Disturbances have been recognized as a key factor shaping terrestrial ecosystem states and dynamics. A general model that quantitatively describes the relationship between carbon storage and disturbance regime is critical for better understanding large scale terrestrial…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Impact of wildfire on the thermal behavior of northern peatlands: observations and model simulations
Wildfire represents the single largest disturbance to the ecohydrological function of northern peatlands. Alterations to peatland thermal behavior as a result of wildfire will modify the carbon balance of these important long-term global carbon stores and regulate post-fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kolden, Abatzoglou
Boreal forest fires are an important source of terrestrial carbon emissions, particularly during years of widespread wildfires. Most carbon emission models parameterize wildfire impacts and carbon flux to area burned by fires, therein making the assumption that fires consume a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES