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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Episode #1 of the Fire Danger Learning Series presents the components and indices that compose the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Butry, Thomas
Research shows that some categories of human-ignited wildfires may be forecastable, owing to their temporal clustering, with the possibility that resources could be predeployed to help reduce the incidence of such wildfires. We estimated several kinds of incendiary and other…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fischer, Spies, Steelman, Moseley, Johnson, Bailey, Ager, Bourgeron, Charnley, Collins, Kline, Leahy, Littell, Millington, Nielsen-Pincus, Olsen, Paveglio, Roos, Steen-Adams, Stevens, Vukomanovic, White, Bowman
Wildfire risk in temperate forests has become a nearly intractable problem that can be characterized as a socioecological 'pathology': that is, a set of complex and problematic interactions among social and ecological systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drury, Rauscher, Banwell, Huang, Lavezzo
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes fire and fuels software applications into a single online application. IFTDSS is designed to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carroll, Paveglio
One of the immediate challenges of wildfire management concerns threats to human safety and property in residential areas adjacent to non-cultivated vegetation. One approach for relieving this problem is to increase human community 'adaptiveness' to deal with the risk and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bernier, Gauthier, Jean, Manka, Boulanger, Beaudoin, Guindon
Fire is a dominant mechanism of forest renewal in most of Canada's forests and its activity is predicted to increase over the coming decades. Individual fire events have been considered to be non-selective with regards to forest properties, but evidence now suggests otherwise.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barn, Elliott, Allen, Kosatsky, Rideout, Henderson
Landscape fires can produce large quantities of smoke that degrade air quality in both remote and urban communities. Smoke from these fires is a complex mixture of fine particulate matter and gases, exposure to which is associated with increased respiratory and cardiovascular…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liu, Mickley, Sulprizio, Dominici, Yue, Ebisu, Anderson, Khan, Bravo, Bell
Wildfire can impose a direct impact on human health under climate change. While the potential impacts of climate change on wildfires and resulting air pollution have been studied, it is not known who will be most affected by the growing threat of wildfires. Identifying…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kerns, Kim, Kline, Day
We examined landscape exposure to wildfire potential, insects and disease risk, and urban and exurban development for the conterminous US (CONUS). Our analysis relied on spatial data used by federal agencies to evaluate these stressors nationally. We combined stressor data with…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhang
A surface barrier is a commonly used technology for isolation of subsurface contaminants. Surface barriers for isolating radioactive waste are expected to perform for centuries to millennia, yet there are very few data for field-scale surface barriers for periods approaching a…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wigtil, Hammer, Kline, Mockrin, Stewart, Roper, Radeloff
The hazards-of-place model posits that vulnerability to environmental hazards depends on both biophysical and social factors. Biophysical factors determine where wildfire potential is elevated, whereas social factors determine where and how people are affected by wildfire. We…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Waring, Coops
A lengthening of the fire season, coupled with higher temperatures, increases the probability of fires throughout much of western North America. Although regional variation in the frequency of fires is well established, attempts to predict the occurrence of fire at a spatial…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tohidi, Kaye
Highly buoyant plumes, such as wildfire plumes, in low to moderate wind speeds have initial trajectories that are steeper than many industrial waste plumes. They will rise further into the atmosphere before bending significantly. In such cases the plume's trajectory will be…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smithwick
From the text...'...calls for the fire-science community to draw up maps of wildfire risk based on contributory factors...' © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: KT Pyne
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Reinhardt
Equations for predicting duff and large woody fuel (7.6+ cm) consumption are summarized. Dependent variables are duff depth reduction, percentage duff depth reduction, percentage mineral soil, large fuel diameter reduction, and percentage large fuel reduction. Opportunities to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine, Wakimoto
The acceleration phase of a forest fire, from ignition to the equilibrium rate of spread, is perhaps the most important phase of fire behavior because often it represents the only time period in which suppression efforts could be effective. A series of experimental fires in a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davi
Computers are rapidly expanding into the urban fire safety area. This paper presents some social implications caused by the use of computers for fire safety databases, arson prediction programs, and fire simulation programs. In regards to the new technological advances this…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ross, Smith, O'Brien
Stand ages and fire scars were used to piece together the histories of stand-replacing conflagrations and noncatastrophic fires, respectively, in a 1500-hectare area east of Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada. The overall distribution of stand ages in the study area indicates a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saveland
The impact of fire suppression on ecosystems with long fire return intervals has been considered negligible. It is argued that, since fire suppresssion has been effective for only the last 30 to 50 years, fire suppresssion could not possibly have had much of an impact where the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keiter, Boyce
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
The essence of the wildland/urban interface fire problem is the loss of homes. The problem is not new, but is becoming increasingly important as more homes with inadequate adherence to safety codes are built at the wildland/urban interface. Current regulatory codes are…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ball, Guertin
FIREMAP is a model for simulating surface fire spread through heterogeneous fuels and over non-uniform terrain. The model was constructed using PROMAP, a language which allows dynamic spatial models to be constructed using raster GIS data bases. The GIS system is used to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Saveland
Adaptive resource management is a continuous learning process in which current knowledge always leads to further experimentation and discovery. Adaptive management evolves by learning from mistakes. Designing adaptive management strategies involves four tasks. First, the problem…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS