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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Chen, Goodwin, Prestemon
In the U.S. forest products industry, wildfire is one of the leading causes of damage and economic losses. While individual wildfire behavior is well studied, new literature is emerging on broad-scale (e.g., county-level) wildfire risks. Our paper studies wildfire risks using…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bodí, Martin, Balfour, Santín, Doerr, Pereira, Cerdà, Mataix-Solera
Fire transforms fuels (i.e. biomass, necromass, soil organic matter) into materials with different chemical and physical properties. One of these materials is ash, which is the particulate residue remaining or deposited on the ground that consists of mineral materials and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Godwin, Long, Lahm
Smoke management has become one of the leading challenges facing prescribed fire practitioners in the Southeast and the continued use of prescribed fire in the region may depend on effective smoke and emission mitigation practices. While not a comprehensive list of smoke…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
With more people than ever living in the vicinity of the wildland-urban interface, communicating wildland fire management activities and building trust with the public is paramount for safety. Although the time and resources it takes to build and maintain the public's trust may…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wei, Bevers, Nguyen, Belval
Previous stochastic models in harvest scheduling seldom address explicit spatial management concerns under the influence of natural disturbances. We employ multistage stochastic programming models to explore the challenges and advantages of building spatial optimization models…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kreye, Brewer, Morgan, Varner, Smith, Hoffman, Ottmar
Mastication is an increasingly common fuels treatment that redistributes 'ladder' fuels to the forest floor to reduce vertical fuel continuity, crown fire potential, and fireline intensity, but fuel models do not exist for predicting fire behavior in these fuel types. Recent…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Matthews
The moisture content of dead fuels is an important determinant of many aspects of bushfire behaviour. Understanding the relationships of fuel moisture with weather, fuels and topography is useful for fire managers and models of fuel moisture are an integral component of fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews
The BehavePlus Fire Modeling System is among the most widely used systems for wildland fire prediction. It is designed for use in a range of tasks including wildfire behaviour prediction, prescribed fire planning, fire investigation, fuel hazard assessment, fire model…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This volume offers a scientific assessment of the effects of climatic variability and change on forest resources in the United States. Derived from a report that provides technical input to the 2013 U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the book serves…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pinno, Landhausser, Chow, Quideau, MacKenzie
Forest land reclamation after oil sands mining requires the re-establishment of self-sustaining boreal forest ecosystems consisting of native forest plant species. This greenhouse study examined germination, growth, and nutrient uptake of fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium (L.)…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lehsten, de Groot, Flannigan, George, Harmand, Balzter
Wildfires are a major driver of ecosystem development and contributor to carbon emissions in boreal forests. We analyzed the contribution of fires of different fire size classes to the total burned area and suggest a novel fire characteristic, the characteristic fire size, i.e.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lewis, Lindberg, Schmutz, Bertram
Fires are the major natural disturbance in the boreal forest, and their frequency and intensity will likely increase as the climate warms. Terrestrial nutrients released by fires may be transported to boreal lakes, stimulating increased primary productivity, which may radiate…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Cohen, Finney, Thompson
Recent fire seasons in the western United States are some of the most damaging and costly on record. Wildfires in the wildland-urban interface on the Colorado Front Range, resulting in thousands of homes burned and civilian fatalities, although devastating, are not without…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Börger, Nudds
Understanding the effects of landscape change and environmental variability on ecological processes is important for evaluating resource management policies, such as the emulation of natural forest disturbances. We analyzed time series of detection/nondetection data using…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bond-Lamberty, Rocha, Calvin, Holmes, Wang, Goulden
Most North American forests are at some stage of post-disturbance regrowth, subject to a changing climate, and exhibit growth and mortality patterns that may not be closely coupled to annual environmental conditions. Distinguishing the possibly interacting effects of these…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report evaluates 24 computer-aided decision support systems (DSS) that can support management decision-making in forest ecosystems. It compares the scope of each system, spatial capabilities, computational methods, development status, input and output requirements, user…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fleming
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliveira, Viegas, Raimundo
A control volume numerical method is used to predict the temperature distribution inside a soil extent, the surface of which has been swept by a two-dimensional flame front with pre-defined velocity and temperature distributions. Natural and forced convection, as well as…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cheney, Gould
The use of the terms 'growth' and 'acceleration' appears to be inconsistent in the literature and we believe this inconsistency has hindered our understanding of behaviour in the early stages of a fire. The development of a fire from a point ignition to some equilibrium state…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Call, Albini
An empirical model is presented which relates fractional reduction in loading to fuel element diameter and moisture content for surface and aerial fuels consumed near the fire front in a spreading crown fire. The model is based upon data from a series of experimental crown fires…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sample, Halofsky, Peterson
Recent policy changes in the USA direct agencies managing federal forests to analyze the potential effects of climate change on forest productivity, water resource protection, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and other values. This paper describes methods developed to (1) assess…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rees, Juday
Natural fires and logging are the two main disturbances affecting upland boreal forest in central Alaska. Data were collected at 12 logged and 12 burned former white spruce forests in 4 stand development stages: A stage (disturbed 1990-1994); B (1978-1983); C (1957-1965); and D…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yokelson, Susott, Ward, Reardon, Griffith
Biomass samples from a diverse range of ecosystems were burned in the Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory open combustion facility. Midinfrared spectra of the nascent emissions were acquired at several heights above the fires with a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward
The mixture of particles, liquids, and gaseous compounds found in smoke from wildland fires is very complex. The potential for long-term adverse health effects is much greater because of this complex mixture. The particles are known to contain many important organic compounds…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Andrews, Bradshaw, Chase, Hartford, Latham
The Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) since 1994. The WFAS will eventually combine the functionality of the current fire-danger rating system (Deeming et al. 1977) and the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS