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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Palacios-Orueta, Chuvieco, Parra, Carmona-Moreno
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gray
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter
Combustion of woody material produces and releases water, but the effects of this water on the atmospheric circulation created by a wildfire are rarely recognized, let alone understood. This paper presents observational data and basic physical arguments to support the hypothesis…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Ferguson, Flannigan
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girardin, Tardif
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeQuire, Hunter
From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Staller
From the text ... '..., in today's world with imcreasing populations, and more people living in the wildland urban interface, prescribed burn practitioners must put more emphasis on smoke management. If we don't manage our smoke and the resulting negative impacts, then the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergin, West, Keating, Russell
The regional nature of several important air pollutants, which include acids, ozone, particulate matter, mercury, and persistent organics (POPs), is widely recognized by researchers and decision makers. Such pollutants are transported regionally over scales from about 100 to a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The following list of research topics was generated by agencies within AWFCG during 2005. The topics were ranked originally by the AWFCG Fire Research and Development Committee (FRDAC) and finally by the AWFCG members. Ranking was as follows: 3= high, 2 = medium, 1= low (or H…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steufer
The WFR-Chem model can produce valuable smoke emissions and fire spread information along with up to a 72 hour smoke forecast. This model can be used by fire and resouce managers, city and borough personnel and others. Feedback is needed for improved graphics and output.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Henderson, Johnston
Exposure to forest fire smoke is episodic, which makes its health effects challenging to study. We review the newest contributions to a growing literature on acute respiratory outcomes.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dymond, Field, Roswintiarti, Guswanto
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saint-Germain, Larrivée, Drapeau, Fahrig, Buddle
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
From the text ... 'The August 2004 issue of the Canadian Journal of forest Research (volume 34[8]) is devoted to a special topic: 'The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in Canada's Northwest Territories: Advancing the Science of Fire Behaviour.' Running from…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Ruth
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large expenditures and substantial…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keeley, Rundel
C4 photosynthesis had a mid-Tertiary origin that was tied to declining atmospheric CO2, but C4-dominated grasslands did not appear until late Tertiary. According to the 'CO2-threshold' model, these C4 grasslands owe their origin to a further late Miocene decline in CO2 that gave…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Randall, Harr
Managing smoke produced by prescribed fires has, in recent years, become a critical consideration when planning a prescribed fire event. In some situations, planning for smoke management may be more complicated than planning for the prescribed fire itself. Considerations such as…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raffuse, Craig, Larkin, Strand, Sullivan, Wheeler, Solomon
Plume injection height influences plume transport characteristics, such as range and potential for dilution. We evaluated plume injection height from a predictive wildland fire smoke transport model over the contiguous United States (U.S.) from 2006 to 2008 using satellite-…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fernández-Berni, Carmona-Galán, Martínez-Carmona, Rodríguez-Vázquez
Wireless sensor networks constitute a powerful technology particularly suitable for environmental monitoring. With regard to wildfires, they enable low-cost fine-grained surveillance of hazardous locations like wildland-urban interfaces. This paper presents work developed during…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning, are often challenged…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Csiszar, Denis, Giglio, Justice, Hewson
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, French, Ottmar
In recent years, wildfires have emerged as an important part of the global environment. Carbon released from fires during combustion alters the global carbon balance. Smoke emissions are a health hazard to nearby communities [Wegesser et al., 2009], can impair air quality and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Hoy
A method was developed to estimate carbon consumed during wildland fires in interior Alaska based on medium-spatial scale data (60 m cell size) generated on a daily basis. Carbon consumption estimates were developed for 41 fire events in the large fire year of 2004 and 34 fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS