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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ascher, Alexander
This videotape production (1987, 18 min) offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project being conducted at Big Fish Lake in northcentral Alberta since 1984 by Forestry Canada and the Alberta Forest Service (AFS).
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dube
Literature shows that at a global scale, fire activity increased from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. There is incremental evidence indicating that climate defines the regional boundary conditions for fire. Human influence on ignitions depends on climate and has, since…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Goff, Flannigan, Bergeron
The main objective of this paper is to evaluate whether future climate change would trigger an increase in the fire activity of the Waswanipi area, central Quebec. First, we used regression analyses to model the historical (1973-2002) link between weather conditions and fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klenner, Walton
We used the TELSA forest landscape model to examine the long-term consequences of applying different forest management scenarios on indicators of wildlife habitat, understory productivity, crown fuel hazard, timber yield and treatment costs. The study area was a dry forest…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Englefield, Little, Reuter
This paper presents an operational approach to predicting fire growth for wildland fires in Canada. The approach addresses data assimilation to provide predictions in a timely and efficient manner. Fuels and elevation grids, forecast weather, and active fire locations are…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wotton
Understanding and being able to predict forest fire occurrence, fire growth and fire intensity are important aspects of forest fire management. In Canada fire management agencies use the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) to help predict these elements of forest…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and précis all types of surface fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across the landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and précis all types of surface…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and précis all types of surface fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Podur, Martell
Forest fires are influenced by weather, fuels, and topography, but the relative influence of these factors may vary in different forest types. Compositional analysis can be used to assess the relative importance of fuels and weather in the boreal forest. Do forest or wild land…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Perera, Dalziel, Buse, Routledge
Knowledge of postfire residuals in boreal forest landscapes is increasingly important for ecological applications and forest management. While many studies provide useful insight, knowledge of stand-scale postfire residual occurrence and variability remains fragmented and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abt, Prestemon, Gebert
The US Forest Service and other land-management agencies seek better tools for anticipating future expenditures for wildfire suppression. We developed regression models for forecasting US Forest Service suppression spending at 1-, 2-, and 3-year lead times. We compared these…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Butler
From the text ... 'This resolution of wind information can be useful to fire models simulating fire growth in very specific locations, such as individual drainages or ridges.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Krawchuk, Cumming, Flannigan
Forecasting future fire activity as a function of climate change is a step towards understanding the future state of the western mixedwood boreal ecosystem. We developed five annual weather indices based on the Daily Severity Rating (DSR) of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sun, Krueger, Jenkins, Zulauf, Charney
The major source of uncertainty in wildfire behavior prediction is the transient behavior of wildfire due to changes in flow in the fire's environment. The changes in flow are dominated by two factors. The first is the interaction or 'coupling' between the fire and the fire-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine
The Drought Code component of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System is an indicator of long term drought and the associated impact on forest fire management. The Drought Code has definite seasonal trends, which can make interpretation of the current daily value difficult…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
The purpose of this paper is to document the calibration process on the Titna River Fire (#420) so that future analysts can benefit from this procedure and findings.
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Hrobak, Barnes
Fire effects monitoring officers report of the experimental prescribed burn in fuel treatments in interior Alaska black spruce. See also the project page at Alaska Fire Science Consortium website: https://www.frames.gov/afsc/projects/nenana-ridge
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wakimoto
The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
The program RXWINDOW is intended to help fire managers develop prescription windows based on desired fire behavior. It is the fifth program in the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. It reverses calculations found elsewhere in BEHAVE. In RXWINDOW, the user…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson
Major revisions to Rothermel's fire spread equations include the propagating flux ratio, reaction velocity, and moisture damping coefficient. The reaction intensity is of the flames alone and specifically excludes energy derived from burning char whether or not it lies in the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donaldson, Paul
This user's guide is an introductory manual for using the 1988 version (Burgan 1988) of the National Fire-Danger Rating System on an IBM PC or compatible computer. NFDRSPC is a window-oriented, interactive computer program that processes observed and forecast weather with fuels…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feunekes, Methven, Mann
Deployment, manning, and dispatching are geographically driven activities that respond to geographically based phenomena changes in fire weather, fire danger, and potential fire behavior. Information systems or decision-aids designed to support the above activities should…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lanoville, Mawdsley
The Forest Fire Preparedness (FFP) System currently used in the Northwest Territories is presented to illustrate a procedure to systematically assess daily fire preparedness requirements. The FFP System consists of four major modules: fire weather elements, the Canadian Forest…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee
This paper reports on the development of the Intelligent Fire Management Information System (IFMIS), a computer program for dispatching fire suppression resources to wildfires. The program uses a number of advanced concepts to provide information to fire managers for both…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS