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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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This guide is intended as a reference for US users who may have reason to work with the system in the United States, where English units are primarily used. Keep in mind that the Canadian Forest Service has produced the definitive selection of reference publications and tools…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Lynham, Howard
Presented at the 2014 CFFDRS in Alaska Summit
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Simeoni, Gallagher, Skowronski
Pine needle litters, a key fuel in coniferous forest systems, are highly porous fuel beds. They provide a source of continuous fuel medium that can be easily ignited and will sustain flame spread on the ground during forest fires. This work represents an experimental study that…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alden
Presented at the 2014 CFFDRS in Alaska Summit Workshop on October 28, 2014.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Presented at the CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hanes
Presentation from the CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Presentation from CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, York
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parks, Miller
The goal of this study was to better understand fire behavior and effects using remotely sensed data. This study had two components: First, we developed methods for generating spatially continuous fire progression maps using MODIS fire-detection satellite data. Second, we…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of this workshop is to learn about and discuss various aspects of smoke management associated with wildland fire in the Southwestern United States. Wildland fire encompasses prescribed fire and wildfire. Topics include fire ecology and technical tools; health and…
Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Swedin, Eagle
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
Year: 2014
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Waigl, Prakash, Dennison, Stuefer
Studied 2004 Boundary Fire and 2009 Wood River fire with respect to remotely sensed spectral information from Hyperion. Results: Fire detection using modified HFDI and CO2 CIBR in combination is successful. Band selection for HFDI can be initialized from fire pixels determined…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Breen, Bennett, Hewitt, Hollingsworth, Genet, Euskirchen, McGuire, Rupp
In Arctic Alaska, changes in climate are expected to increase the extent and frequency of wildfires yet the implication and consequences are poorly understood. Predicting landscape flammability and vegetation dynamics in response to climate change is a challenge because of the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rogers
Large areas of boreal forest in North America and Eurasia are frequently disturbed by wildfire. These fires alter ecosystem structure and function and affect climate through various biophysical and biogeochemical pathways. Fire-related forcings, however, are highly uncertain,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Bowman, Bond, Pyne, Alexander
[From description] Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
When the federal agencies established policies in the late 1960s and early 1970s to allow the use of natural fires in wilderness, they launched a natural fire management experiment in a handful of wilderness areas. As a result, wildland fire has played more of its natural role…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Keane, Dillon, Jain, Hudak, Karau, Sikkink, Holden, Strand
Comprehensive assessment of ecological change after fires have burned forests and rangelands is important if we are to understand, predict and measure fire effects. We highlight the challenges in effective assessment of fire and burn severity in the field and using both remote…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Canfield, Linn, Sauer, Finney, Forthofer
The current study focuses on coupled dynamics and resultant geometry of fireline segments of various ignition lengths. As an example, for ignition lines of length scales typical for field experiments, fireline curvature is the result of a competition between the head fire and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mueller, Mell, Simeoni
Large eddy simulation (LES) based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulators have obtained increasing attention in the wildland fire research community, as these tools allow the inclusion of important driving physics. However, due to the complexity of the models, individual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This website gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the text 'Fire on Earth: An Introduction' by Andrew C. Scott, David M.J.S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne and Martin E. Alexander. It includes: powerpoints of all figures from the book for…
Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Brown
This project is purposed to develop a consensus approach to undertake smoke model validation through field measurements. It builds upon needs described in the JFSP Smoke Science Plan (Riebau and Fox 2010), in the JFSP Models and Measurements Workshop, and lessons learned from…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler
Bret Butler presented a webinar on December 2, 2014. Current safety zone guidelines for wildland firefighters are based on the assumption of flat ground, no wind, and radiative heating only. Recent measurements in grass, shrub and crown fires indicate that convective heating can…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
This webinar explores a current effort to use the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) in Alaska for fuel treatment planning on or adjacent to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. In addition, IFTDSS was also used to assess the effectiveness of pre-existing…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Leach
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Interpret results from a verification study of the NDFD grids from the local Missoula Weather Forecast Office and the implications for fire behavior forecasts that use NDFD data. Afternoon temperature, minimum…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES