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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Barnes, Miller, McMillan, Hrobak
The AWFCG Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium sponsored a fuel moisture sampling field training workshop on May 17, 2012. The purpose of this workshop was to provide step by step instruction for collecting samples and processing moisture…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Linn, Anderson, Winterkamp, Brooks, Wotton, Dupuy, Pimont, Edminster
Field experiments are one way to develop or validate wildland fire-behavior models. It is important to consider the implications of assumptions relating to the locality of measurements with respect to the fire, the temporal frequency of the measured data, and the changes to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
Summary graphs depicting 20 individual flame length-fire intensity relationships grouped by four different fuel complex types or settings (forest, grassland, shrubland, and laboratory) and 12 individual fireline intensity-crown scorch height relationships for two broad forest…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jolly, Hadlow
Foliar moisture content is an important factor regulating how wildland fires ignite in and spread through live fuels but moisture content determination methods are rarely standardised between studies. One such difference lies between the uses of rapid moisture analysers or…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
FSPro (Fire Spread Probability) is a fire modeling system that calculates the probability of fire spread from a fire perimeter or ignition point for a specified time period. Combining landscape data layers (crown base height, crown bulk density, etc.), current weather forecasts…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cochrane, Moran, Wimberly, Baer, Finney, Beckendorf, Eidenshink, Zhu
Human land use practices, altered climates, and shifting forest and fire management policies have increased the frequency of large wildfires several-fold. Mitigation of potential fire behaviour and fire severity have increasingly been attempted through pre-fire alteration of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hicke, Johnson, Hayes, Preisler
Millions of trees killed by bark beetles in western North America have raised concerns about subsequent wildfire, but studies have reported a range of conclusions, often seemingly contradictory, about effects on fuels and wildfire. In this study, we reviewed and synthesized the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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
Contreras, Parsons, Chung
Land managers have been using fire behavior and simulation models to assist in several fire management tasks. These widely-used models use average attributes to make stand-level predictions without considering spatial variability of fuels within a stand. Consequently, as the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
This paper is the second of two reviewing scientific literature from 100 years of research addressing interactions between the atmosphere and fire behaviour. These papers consider research on the interactions between the fuels burning at any instant and the atmosphere, and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter
This paper is the first of two reviewing scientific literature from 100 years of research addressing interactions between the atmosphere and fire behaviour. These papers consider research on the interactions between the fuels burning at any instant and the atmosphere, and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini, Alexander, Cruz
A mathematical model is presented for predicting the maximum potential spot fire distance from an active crown fire. This distance can be estimated from the height of the flame above the canopy top, wind speed at canopy-top height and final firebrand size (i.e. its residual size…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hansen
In wildland fires where water is used as the primary extinguishing agent, one of the issues of wildfire suppression is estimating how much water is required to extinguish a certain section of the fire. In order to use easily distinguished and available indicators, the flame…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ricciardi, Antonucci, Giordano, Zarrelli
The thermal degradation and the fire behavior of a polyester resin containing phosphate-based fire-retardant additives and its corresponding glass fiber composites were investigated. An unsaturated commercial polyester resin was modified by the addition of three phosphate-based…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
Rothermel's surface fire spread model was developed to use a value for the wind speed that affects surface fire, called midflame wind speed. Models have been developed to adjust 20-ft wind speed to midflame wind speed for sheltered and unsheltered surface fuel. In this report,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Bova, Forney, Rehm, McDermott
The last 15 years have seen the development of wildland and wildland-urban interface (WUI) fire behavior models that make use of modern numerical methods in atmospheric and combustion physics. Currently, these approaches are too computationally expensive for operational use and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Brewer
Forest managers are currently tasked to consider carbon retention as part of their management objectives at the stand level, including hazardous fuels reduction, which temporarily removes live-tree biomass carbon from a stand when prescribed fire follows the thinning treatment.…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reszka, Borowiec, Steinhaus, Torero
A methodology for the estimation of ignition times on solid materials is presented. It is based on the observation that the time to ignition is proportional to the squared time integral of the incident heat flux. This relationship can be readily demonstrated for the classical…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pratt
A discussion about the calibration of fire models is presented by Ben Pratt.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCoy, Elenz, Vergari, Floyd, Dykehouse, Soper, Fay
Listen to the experiences and lessons learned from veteran fire management officers regarding prescribed fire and fire use.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Higuera
Dr. Philip Higuera presented results from past and ongoing research focused on understanding the causes and consequences of tundra burning in the past, present, and future. The talk integrated several lines of work, including reconstructing tundra fire history in the recent and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller
Important seasonal fuel moisture data is lacking in Alaska. In 2012, several areas collected duff and live fuel moisture samples throughout the summer to calibrate and validate CFFDRS indices, to monitor prescribed fires and adjust staffing levels. Continued monitoring in 2013…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
This webinar focuses on how plants burn and where and under what conditions. It is a mixture of plant physiology and combustion characteristics, and understanding why plants burn at certain times.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
Live fuel moisture is measured frequently throughout the country as an indicator of potential fire behavior but little is known about the primary factors that drive their seasonal variations. Dr. Matt Jolly will delve into the interactive factors that control live fuel moisture…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McHugh
FlamMap is a fire behavior mapping and analysis program that computes potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.) over an entire FARSITE landscape for constant weather and fuel moisture conditions. Since 2006 FlamMap3 has been…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES