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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wotton
Mike Wotton's current research focuses on the development of fuel moisture, fire occurrence and fire behaviour models for use in daily operational fire management activities as well as in the development of climate change impacts scenarios. His doctoral thesis developed a…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Spak
This webinar was presented by Dr. Scott Spak.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Preisler
Haiganoush Preisler talks about her work modeling very large fires over very large areas. She is a research scientist and statistician with the USFS PSW Research Station and lead author on the attached paper. You can find out more about her work at: http://www.wfas.net/index.…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan
Casey Sullivan provided an overview of the National Weather Service fire weather forecast program and discussed elements of the fire weather forecast available to any fire practitioner. The hourly weather graph and definitions of surface winds was emphasized.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
St. Clair
This webinar was facilitated by Tom St. Clair, Fairbanks, Alaska, and focused on WFDSS modeling and weather. The agenda items covered included: how to pick RAWS to get the best data for wind and fuels, using predicted weather, ERC classes tab in WFDSS, ERC streams tab in WFDSS,…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The onset of climate change has been rapid and more significant in boreal regions as compared to other parts of the world. Fire activity has already been increasing in many parts of the boreal regions, and many studies suggest that this trend will continue and may even intensify…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
A 22-minute video about the dangers of fire whirls.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Carlson
Ric Carlson describes how he develops the prescription window and uses a process of constant evaluation and updating that helps him avoid the traps always inherent with boundary selection.
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Guse
An introduction to a variety of fire weather forecasting tools available free online. These include new features of the National Weather Service site and Google Earth applications. This webinar was presented by Ray Guse, The Nature Conservancy, and hosted by the Fire Learning…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan
Presentation by Casey Sullivan, Meteorologist and Forecaster with the National Weather Service Chicago/Romeoville office. Recorded at the 2013 Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Regional Fire Conference in Dubuque, Iowa.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Graning
Amanda is approaching the 10 year mark as a meteorologist for the National Weather Service (NWS). Majority of her time has been spent as a forecaster in the Duluth, MN Weather Forecast Office. She has been the Fire Weather Program Leader at her office going on 3 years and will…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strader
Heidi Strader presented this talk on weather conditions important to smoke management in prescribed fire planning at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This introductory (RX410 Unit 7) talk covers weather terms definitions, effects…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
A discussion of climate change in Alaska and how it impacts fire regimes. Presented at the 2nd Annual Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop (Oct. 14-15, 2010).
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Passek, Alden, Strader
The Weather Information Management System (WIMS) is a comprehensive system that helps agencies manage weather information. It also hosts the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS), incorporating both the 1978 and 1988 fuel models. WIMS provides the data to calculate fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier
Gary L. Achtemeier presented a webinar on predicting the occurrence and transport of smoke-induced dense fog (superfog) which has been implicated in roadway accidents around the nation. The webinar summarizes 20 years of collaboration between land managers in the southeastern U.…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McHugh
FlamMap is a fire behavior mapping and analysis program that computes potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.) over an entire FARSITE landscape for constant weather and fuel moisture conditions. Since 2006 FlamMap3 has been…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lahm
A 36-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. A presentation describing a progressive approach and overreaching principles of smoke management. Also covers the development…
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
O'Meilia
A 38-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation describes the purpose of Rx fire councils, provides an introduction to the Oklahoma (OK) prescribed Fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Werth
Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rorig
Introduction to WFDSS - Air Quality ToolsSmoke management is an important aspect of managing wildland fire. While mitigating smoke impacts from prescribed burns is important, smoke from large wildfire complexes (such as the AZ/NM fires in 2011) can expose millions of people to…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
The Fire Behavior Field Reference Guide (FBFRG) was developed as a hands-on user tool for field going FBAN's along with various operational personnel. The guide contains helpful references to fuels, weather, fuel models, and terrain features that are vital to field going fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Duffy
Paul A. Duffy presents the powerpoint, Early Season Forecasting of Fire Activity in Alaska, at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 7, 2011. An annual area burned forecast model has been developed using monthly temperature and precipitation and…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Perrakis
Kerry Anderson of the Canadian Forest Service, begins this presentation on the Probabilistic Fire Analysis System (PFAS) by presenting his thesis work on fire growth modeling at multiple scales. Fire growth modeling can fall into three scales depending on weather forecasting…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Amato
Mediasite video presentation given by Sam Amato, (National Fire Decision Support Center) at the 2011 Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop, Flagstaff, AZ on March 10, 2011. The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) model uses different fire models to provide landscape…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Walsh
In general, all climate prediction models are projecting continued increases in seasonal temperatures. Precipitation is also predicted to increase, though the impact on Alaska seems relatively minor. Alaska will most likely experience a drier environment, particularly in the…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES