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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
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
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
Duffy
Atmospheric circulation patterns influence seasonal temperature and precipitation across large regions of Alaska. This experimental fire prediction tool uses this information to produce a forecast of area burned in Interior Alaska (i.e. South of the Brooks Range and North of the…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rorig
Mediasite video presentation given by Miriam Rorig, (USFS, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab) at the 2011 Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop, Flagstaff, AZ on March 9, 2011. New models and advances in smoke modeling, such as BlueSky, a modeling framework that links a variety…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES