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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Weber
The mathematical structure of a model of a spreading wildfire which includes chemical kinetic effects, as well as heat transfer, is outlined in general terms. Reference to a simple example which has been intensively studied demonstrates some of the salient features. A more…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viney
Models describing the moisture content of forest fuels are an integral component of most fire behaviour prediction systems. In this paper, models of all aspects of moisture change in fine, dead, surface litter are examined and reviewed. Included are models describing the changes…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viney, Catchpole
The response time of a fuel element is defined in terms of the response to a step change in moisture content, and is not measurable in the field. However the formulation of fine fuel moisture content as a continuous process leads to a simple relationship between the response…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reap
Archived lightning data from the Bureau of Land Management automated network of direction-finding stations in Alaska were examined to determine the seasonal, diurnal, and spatial distributions of cloud-to-ground lightning, including the effects of the underlying topography on…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen, Spies, Swanson, Ohmann
In this article, we review patterns of disturbance succession in natural forests in the Coastal Northwest and compare structure and composition across an age gradient of unmanaged stands. Stand and landscape patterns in managed forests are then examined and compared with those…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cwynar, Spear
Pollen and plant macrofossil analyses of sediments from three sites in the central Yukon that are presently in shrub tundra provided a record of former forest establishment. Shrub tundra with groves and gallery forest of balsam poplar occupied the region between 10 000 and 8000…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berger, Loutre
New values for the astronomical parameters of the Earth's orbit and rotation (eccentricity, obliquity and precession) are proposed for paleoclimatic research related to the Late Miocene, the Pliocene and the Quaternary. They have been obtained from a numerical solution of the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bartlein, Anderson, Edwards, McDowell
Paleoclimatic variations in a particular region can be viewed as the outcome of the superimposition of the effects of a number of large-scale controls. A framework for understanding paleoclimatic variations in a region can be established by considering the long-term history of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shands
Abstract is not available online.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Radke, Hegg, Hobbs, Nance, Lyons, Laursen, Weiss, Riggan, Ward
n this chapter we describe the results of airborne studies of smokes from 17 biomass fuel fires, including 14 prescribed fires and 3 wildfires, burned primarily in the temperate zone of North America between 34° and 49°N latitude. The prescribed fires were in forested lands…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Soma, Saito
This work was motivated from the knowledge of a historical fire whirl accident in which a fire whirl was responsible for 38,000 deaths and serious damage to the environment, all of which happened within 15 minutes. To understand the general features of fire whirls, records of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCleese, Nichols, Walton
In this paper, several innovations to the firefighting process are summarized. Organizational innovations include the Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Protection Initiative, common interagency emergency management procedures, and the National Interagency Incident Management System…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olbu, Susott, Ward
Due to the increasing concern about global climate change and the realization that biomass fires are a significant source of CO2, CH4, and other greenhouse gases, there is a need to quantify the emissions of these gases from biomass fires. The emissions from a wide variety of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins, Turn, Williams, Chang, Raabe, Paskind, Teague
Agricultural practices and land use modification were estimated to produce 14% and 9%, respectively, of the total greenhouse gas emissions contributing to global warming in the decade preceding 1990 (Marshall, 1989). Carbon release rates from tropical forest conversion have been…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bailey
This article was part of a presentation 'Fire in Resource Management' at the National Advanced Resource Technology Training Center in Marana, AZ, in April 1990 and January 1991.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
Description not entered.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
A variety of potent air toxins are in the smoke produced by burning forest and range biomass. Preliminary data on firefighter exposures to carbon monoxide and formaldehyde at four prescribed burns of Western United States natural fuels are presented. Formaldehyde may be…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wykoff, Dixon, Crookston, Sleavin, Renner
This is a draft of the Release Notes for Prognosis Model version 6.0. Ultimately, this report will be expanded into a complete user's manual for the Forest Vegetation Simulator. Prognosis Model Version 6.0 predicts forest stand development. Stand growth predictions are based on…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton
Although the Stand Prognosis Model has several stochastic components, features have been included in the model in an attempt to minimize run-to-run variation attributable to these stochastic components. This has led many users to assume that comparisons of management…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Stage
The Parallel Processing Extension (PPE) of the Prognosis Model was designed to analyze responses of numerous stands to coordinated management and pest impacts that operate at the landscape level of forests. Vegetation-related resource supply analysis can be readily performed for…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
In the past it was not uncommon to close access to large areas of the mountains for long periods of time because of avalanche dangers. Now, modern management of mountainous areas is requiring roads to be kept open longer, larger areas for skiing be available, and safe…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fege, Peterson
Conference proceeding from the 84th annual meeting and exhibition, Air and Waste Management Association, April 20, 1991.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward, Hardy
Biomass burning is a major source of emissions to the atmosphere. Some of these emissions may change global climate. This paper uses combustion efficiency as an independent variable for predicting emission factors for, among others, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark
An analytical model of disturbance and plant population dynamics is developed to explore the optimal life history for a plant within a "shifting mosaic" meta-population. The population dynamics consist of short-lived recruitment events followed by longer intervals of thinning.…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christensen
[From introduction] What are the proper fire regimes for our diverse wilderness ecosystems? How and why have the frequency and behavior of fire changed through time? How have human activities such as a century of fire exclusion, landscape fragmentation, and alteration of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES