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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Riley
A special session at the 6th International Fire Ecology Congress of the Association for Fire Ecology.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Riley
Can we save money on wildfire suppression by investing in fuel treatments and prescribed fire?
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Riley, Hand, Scott
The increasing cost of fighting wildland fire has had a negative and lasting impact on the Forest Service’s non-fire, mission critical activities. How do we evaluate the potential impacts of mitigation investments on future wildfire management costs?
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Anand, Shotorban, Mahalingam, McAllister, Weise
A computational study was performed to improve our understanding of the ignition of live fuel in the forced ignition and flame spread test apparatus, a setup where the impact of the heating mode is investigated by subjecting the fuel to forced convection and radiation. An…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by the agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2016 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and Application Committee…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This dataset provides estimates of wildfire progression, as represented by date of burning (DoB), within fire scars across Alaska and Canada for the period 2001-2015. The estimated DoB was derived using an algorithm for identifying the first fire occurrence from the Moderate…
Year: 2017
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Fraser, van der Sluijs, Hall
Wildfires are a dominant disturbance to boreal forests, and in North America, they typically cause widespread tree mortality. Forest fire burn severity is often measured at a plot scale using the Composite Burn Index (CBI), which was originally developed as a means of assigning…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jean, Alexander, Mack, Johnstone
Bryophytes are dominant components of boreal forest understories and play a large role in regulating soil microclimate and nutrient cycling. Therefore, shifts in bryophyte communities have the potential to affect boreal forests’ ecosystem processes. We investigated how bryophyte…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gong, Kaulfus, Nair, Jaffe
Wildfires emit O3 precursors but there are large variations in emissions, plume heights, and photochemical processing. These factors make it challenging to model O3 production from wildfires using Eulerian models. Here we describe a statistical approach to characterize the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pingree, DeLuca
Fire is an important driver of change in most forest, savannah, and prairie ecosystems and fire-altered organic matter, or pyrogenic carbon (PyC), conveys numerous functions in soils of fire-maintained terrestrial ecosystems. Although an exceptional number of recent review…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Douglas
The use of chemical fire retardants in forest ecosystems creates a number of potential problems in land management. The properties, application, and known side-effects of chemical retardants are therefore reviewed from the point of view of ecological impact. Guidelines for the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This Report describes the construction of an index of the relative rate of spread of crowning forest fires during spring and early summer. It depends on the proposition that conifer crowns are more flammable during this period because the moisture content of their foliage is…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks
The performance of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) is analyzed with respect to wildfire behavior in Ontario for a 7-year period (1965-1971). Lightning fires and man-caused fires are analyzed separately and regional differences in fire weather and fire behavior are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Main
From the text:'The computer program FIREDAT was run and the cumulate percentage of ignition components used to determine the class boundaries. The only percents green used were10-30-50, corresponding to cured, transition and green in the old system. Since we have an extreme day…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ramberg
From the Introduction:'The objective of EDST 1710, Firing and Line Holding Devices, is to improve safety and efficiency in prescribed burning and wildfire control through the development of equipment for firing and line holding. There has been a need in the past to burn out and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maloney, Todd
From the Introduction: 'Forest fire control agencies in Canada keep records of fire occurrences. Generally, these records summarize the characteristics of individual forest fires and are often stored on a computer-oriented device, usually magnetic tape. From these records, a…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) was issued in 1970 after several years' work by a number of fire researchers in the Canadian Forestry Service. The best features of the former fire danger index were incorporated in the FWI, and a link was preserved between old and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moen
Air flow in the natural environment affects the distribution of organisms, mechnical stresses, heat losses by convection, and moisture distribution. Air flow was visualized by bubble tracers in a wind tunnel, and the flow patterns over solid barriers 5 and 15 cm high and 0%, 25…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This report is a bibliography of publications on all aspects of forest fire produced during the period 1961 to 1974 at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station. There are 52 items, listed chronologically in four categories. A short descriptive note accompanies each item.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roussopoulos
A fuel hazard rating system was devised for eastern logging slash similar to that of the National Fire Danger Rating System. It involves a series of CALCOMP plots that graphically display normalized predictions of rate of spread and fireline intensity as related to slash species…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz
The efficiency of aerial fire detection patrolling could be significantly improved if a reliable thunderstorm tracking and lighting fire prediction scheme were available. One method to determine the areas over which thunderstorms have passed requires the use of expensive…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Endean, Johnstone
The srpuce-fir forest of the Alberta foothills are often characterized by deep organic matter accumulations on the soil surface and cold soil tempertatures, both of which make reforestation difficult and result in a general deterioration in site productivity. Prescribed burning…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the text... 'The Duff Moisture Code (DMC) of the Fire Weather Index (FWI) (Can. For. Serv. 1970) was designed to follow the day-to-day moisture changes in a pine forest duff layer of 1 lb./ft2 dry weight (about 5 kg/m2). During work on the DMC (Van Wagner, Can. For. Serv.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldrup, Jordan
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cooper
Prescribed burning is a preferred treatment in many fuel management situations because of its low cost, campatibility with other land-use objectives, and little or not undesirable side effects. The problems, limitations, and associated consequences of fire treatments are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS