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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The US National Atlas Data site provides a source for geospatial data including political boundaries, roads, waterways, and population centers. Nearly all data available in the National Atlas Map Maker can be downloaded at no cost.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Hazard Mapping System (HMS) is an interactive processing system that allows the trained satellite analysts in the Satellite Analysis Branch (SAB), within the Satellite Services Division (SSD), to manually integrate data from automated fire detection algorithms using GOES and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
MesoWest is an ongoing cooperative project between researchers at the University of Utah, forecasters at the Salt Lake City National Weather Service Office, the NWS Western Region Headquarters, and personnel of participating agencies, universities, and commercial firms. The goal…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The AQS Data Mart is a database containing all of the information from the AQS system. The AQS Data Mart was built as a storehouse of air quality information that allows users to make queries of unlimited quantities of data. The main AQS system must maintain constant readiness…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) is a weather modeling system for mesoscale numerical predictions for atmospheric research and operational forecasting.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
A computer-imaging software program that simulates visual air quality differences of various scenes.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
CAMx is an Eulerian photochemical dispersion model that allows for integrated "one-atmosphere" assessments of gaseous and particulate air pollution (ozone, particulate matter, air toxics) over spatial scales ranging from neighborhoods to continents. It is designed to unify all…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Canopy fuel stratum characteristics determine to a large extent the behavior of crown fires. By linking an extensive forest stand database with foliage dry weight allometric equations, we developed regression equations to estimate the following canopy fuel stratum…
Year: 2013
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Mell
The Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS) is an extension of NIST's structural Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) to fuels that include vegetation. WFDS uses computational fluid dynamics methods to solve the governing equations for buoyant flow, heat transfer,…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Linn, Sieg
HIGRAD/FIRETEC is a physics-based, 3-D computer code designed to simulate the constantly changing, interactive relationship between fire and its environment. It does so by representing the coupled interaction between fire, fuels, atmosphere, and topography on a landscape scale (…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Toney, Bramel, Anderson
The LANDFIRE Data Access Tool is an ArcGIS toolbar that allows users to interact with the USGS National Map and download LANDFIRE data directly from ArcMap. Once the data are downloaded, it can automatically process the data into raster formats ready for analysis.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Canopy fuel stratum characteristics determine to a large extent the behavior of crown fires. By linking an extensive forest stand database with foliage dry weight allometric equations, we developed regression equations to estimate the following canopy fuel stratum…
Year: 2010
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
LCP Critique is a small standalone program that allows users to import an LCP file (a landscape file; constituted of fuel model, canopy cover, stand height, crown base height, and crown bulk density layers) and generate summary information that can be used to critique the data.…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton, Hamilton
Now in its third version, the Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) Software Application (FRCCSA) is a simple, non-spatial tool for quickly summarizing FRCC at multiple scales using the Standard Landscape Worksheet Method.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Toney, Bramel, Anderson
The LANDFIRE Data Access Tool is an ArcGIS toolbar that allows users to interact with the USGS National Map and download LANDFIRE data directly from ArcMap. Once the data are downloaded, it can automatically process the data into raster formats ready for analysis.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Bramel, Dousset, Finlayson, Hamilton
The First Order Fire Effects Model Mapping Tool (FOFEMMT) provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software and the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) (Reinhardt 2003). FOFEM is a non-spatial fire effects analysis program that computes potential first order fire effects…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Smail
LANDFIRE total fuel change tool (ToFu Delta) works through a Microsoft Access database to produce spatial results in Arc Map based on rule sets devised by the user which principally take into account the existing vegetation type (EVT), existing vegetation cover (EVC), existing…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Bramel, Dousset, Finlayson, Hamilton
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Heinsch, Schelvan
The Fire Characteristics Chart, a supplement to the BehavePlus fire modeling system has been released. This program, a stand-alone version of the chart, provides graphical representation of modeled or observed fire behavior for surface and crown fire. It replaces the limited…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
An understanding of the processes that control wildland fuel accumulation, including the roles played by climate change and fire management activities, is crucial for designing wildland management policies. Boreal ALFRESCO simulates the responses of subarctic and boreal…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Atmospheric circulation patterns influence seasonal temperature and precipitation across large regions of Alaska. This experimental product uses to information to produce a forecast of area burned in Interior Alaska (i.e. South of the Brooks Range and North of the Alaska Range…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based application designed to make fuel treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective. IFTDSS provides access to data and models through one simple user interface. It is available to all…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FERA and the LANDFIRE team collaborated together to develop and map a set of FCCS fuelbeds to represent complete coverage of current vegetation types designated in LANDFIRE. Coverage of this GIS layer is at a 30-m resolution across the continental United States. The fuelbed map…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer, Butler
WindWizard is no longer supported by the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab as the underlying software is not readily available. Much of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling within the WindWizard framework was added to the WindNinja software.
WindWizard is a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The RAWS USA Climate Archive website provides detailed Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) observations for all stations in the United States, along with weather station information, maps, graphs,and photos. Weather observations are archived, with past and current hourly…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES