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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Deal, Raymond, Peterson, Glick
There are a number of misunderstandings about 'ecosystem services' and 'climate change' and these terms are often used incorrectly to describe different concepts. These concepts address different issues and objectives but have some important integrating themes relating to carbon…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ko, Cheong, Nam
This paper proposes a new vision-based early fire detection method for real-world application. First, candidate fire regions are detected using a background and color model of fire. Probabilistic models of the fire are then generated based on the fact that fire pixel values in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barovik, Taranchuk
Adapted mathematical model for simulation of running crown forest fire propagation is considered. Simplifying assumptions, equations of the model, initial and boundary conditions, finite difference approximations are introduced. The results of computer modelling and the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ascough, Bird, Meredith, Wood, Snape, Brock, Higham, Large, Apperley
Charcoal is the result of natural and anthropogenic burning events, when biomass is exposed to elevated temperatures under conditions of restricted oxygen. This process produces a range of materials, collectively known as pyrogenic carbon, the most inert fraction of which is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Janhäll, Andreae, Pöschl
Aerosol emissions from vegetation fires have a large impact on air quality and climate. In this study, we use published experimental data and different fitting procedures to derive dynamic particle number and mass emission factors (EFPN, EFPM) related to the fuel type, burning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woolford, Cao, Dean, Martell
The potential impact of climate change on forest fire risk is of significant concern. Postulated climate change effects on wildfires include increasing annual trends in ignitions and a lengthening of the fire season. We propose to use logistic generalized additive mixed models…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Otieno
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.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
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…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Kemball
Two boreal mixedwood stands burned by the 1999 Black River wildfire in southeastern Manitoba, Canada were selected to study the effect of fire severity on early survival and growth of planted jack pine (Pinus banksiana), black spruce (Picea mariana) and white spruce (Picea…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Allison, McGuire, Treseder
Boreal forests store a large fraction of global terrestrial carbon and are susceptible to environmental change, particularly rising temperatures and increased fire frequency. These changes have the potential to drive positive feedbacks between climate warming and the boreal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Laughlin
Risk is a combined statement of the probability that something of value will be damaged and some measure of the damage's adverse effect. Wildfires burning in the uncharacteristic fuel conditions now typical throughout the Western United States can damage ecosystems and adversely…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
The fire destruction of hundreds of homes associated with wildfires has occurred in the United States for more than a century. From 1870 to 1920, massive wildfires occurred principally in the Lake States but also elsewhere. Wildfires such as Peshtigo (Wisconsin, 1871), Michigan…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Song, Chou, Williams, Hom
Three-dimensional (3D) visualization is a useful tool that depicts virtual forest landscapes on computer. Previous studies in visualization have required high end computer hardware and specialized technical skills. A virtual forest landscape can be used to show different effects…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heilman, Bian
Combining the Haines Index (HI) with near-surface turbulent kinetic energy (TKEs) through a product of the two values (HITKEs) has shown promise as an indicator of the atmospheric potential for extreme and erratic fire behavior in the U.S. Numerical simulations of fire-weather…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goldstein, Butler, Hull
Conservation Learning Networks (CLN) are an emerging conservation strategy for addressing complex resource management challenges that face the forestry profession. The US Fire Learning Network (FLN) is a successful example of a CLN that operates on a national scale. Developed in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bettinger
The introduction or modification of land use regulations and sustainability initiatives over the last few decades has arguably increased the complexity of forest planning processes. Given the planning goals of a land management organization, both spatial and temporal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Busby, Albers
Wildfire, like many natural hazards, affects large landscapes with many landowners and the risk individual owners face depends on both individual and collective protective actions. In this study, we develop a spatially explicit game theoretic model to examine the strategic…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, McIntire, Pedersen, King, Pisaric
Changes in Earth's environment are expected to stimulate changes in the composition and structure of ecosystems, but it is still unclear how the dynamics of these responses will play out over time. In long-lived forest systems, communities of established individuals may be…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allison, Gartner, Mack, McGuire, Treseder
Boreal forests are an important source of wood products, and fertilizers could be used to improve forest yields, especially in nutrient poor regions of the boreal zone. With climate change, fire frequencies may increase, resulting in a larger fraction of the boreal landscape…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
To date in 2010, eleven fires have been detected on the North Slope. There has been some interest in the fire activity and whether it is abnormal. Here I provide some basic statistics on North Slope fires since 1969 to provide some context. There have been 34 recorded fires on…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Driscoll, Lindenmayer, Bennett, Bode, Bradstock, Cary, Clarke, Dexter, Fensham, Friend, Gill, James, Kay, Keith, MacGregor, Possingham, Russell-Smith, Salt, Watson, Williams, York
Agencies charged with nature conservation and protecting built-assets from fire face a policy dilemma because management that protects assets can have adverse impacts on biodiversity. Although conservation is often a policy goal, protecting built-assets usually takes precedence…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foltz, Wagenbrenner
The assessment teams who make post-fire stabilization and treatment decisions are under pressure to employ more effective and economic post-fire treatments, as wild fire activity and severity has increased in recent years across the western United States. Use of forest-native…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Elliot, Miller, Audin
Fire suppression in the last century has resulted in forests with excessive amounts of biomass, leading to more severe wildfires, covering greater areas, requiring more resources for suppression and mitigation, and causing increased onsite and offsite damage to forests and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Elliot
As society looks to our nation's forests as sources of energy, there is a risk of increased runoff and erosion. This report gives an overview of watershed processes, discusses the impacts of biomass removal on those processes, provides some guidelines to minimize adverse impacts…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rasker
Fighting wildfires costs U.S. taxpayers $3 billion annually, more than twice what it cost a decade ago. Unfortunately, this expense is almost certain to continue to grow, and-unless action is taken-firefighting costs could at least double again in the next 15 years because of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES