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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Justice, Giglio, Korontzi, Owens, Morisette, Roy, Descloitres, Alleaume, Petitcolin, Kaufman
Fire products are now available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) including the only current global daily active fire product. This paper describes the algorithm, the products and the associated validation activities. High-resolution ASTER data,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Borsum, Haines
From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'This article discusses factors that are critical to both firefighters and fire managers in ensuring a safe and productive workforce. First, it discusses such items as the work environment, the firefighter workforce, physical fitness, nutrition, work/rest…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Federal, state, tribal and local governments are making unprecedented efforts to reduce the buildup of fuels and restore forests and rangelands to healthy conditions. Yet, needless red tape and lawsuits delay effective implementation of forest health projects…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Driessen
Describes the role played by crew cohesion in the deaths of firefighters in three firefighting tragedies: the Mann Gulch Fire, the South Canyon Fire, and the Thirtymile Fire. Two types of cohesion are involved, the cohesion within a crew (intracrew cohesion) and the cohesion…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'Wildland fire is a high-risk, high-consequence business. It is influenced by high social expectations and a low political tolerance for failure. Our environment is surrounded by uncertainty and danger. It is controlled more and more by our ability to measure,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simoneit
Biomass combustion is an important primary source of particles with adsorbed biomarker compounds in the global atmosphere. The introduction of natural product organic compounds into smoke occurs primarily by direct volatilization/steam stripping and by thermal alteration based…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delong
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pilz, Molina
Widespread commercial harvesting of wild edible mushrooms from the forests of the Pacific Northwest United States (PNW-US) began 10-15 years ago. A large proportion of suitable forest habitat in this region is managed by the Forest Service (US Department of Agriculture) and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sherwood
A likely causal chain is established here that connects humidity in the stratosphere, relative humidity near the tropical tropopause, ice crystal size in towering cumulus clouds, and aerosols associated with tropical biomass burning. The connections are revealed in satellite-…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Monroe
Wildland-urban interface issues, by proximity and definition, always involve people. The people may be nearby rural residents, activists in a wise-use or environmental organization, planners and developers, townspeople, or urban visitors. Whether these people are knowledgeable,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAvoy
Wildland managers across the United States are currently returning fire to the landscape in an effort to restore an ecosystem process and to reduce the escalating costs and impacts of wildfires. The American public however, has a poor understanding of the policy of fire use, and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kramer
People are having an ever-increasing impact on their local, regional, and global environments, the impact is particularly significant on urban areas, where concentrated human development fragments and transforms natural resources, thereby resulting in large-scale environmental…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett
A standardized approach for characterizing floral and faunal communities on National Forests in the US has been developed through the USDA Forest Service*s (USDA FS) Natural Resources Information System (NRJS). We developed a method for extrapolation of floral and faunal…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Monroe
Perhaps more than any other wildland-urban interface challenge, the interface makes wildland fire an issue. Some lightning-started wildland fires might be left to burn and maintain natural ecosystems if human lives and structures were not threatened, but they are. Second homes…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zabinski
From the text ... 'On May 29, 2000, just 3 weeks after the Cerro Grande Fire was ignited in northern New Mexico's Bandelier National Monument, the Viveash Fire erupted some 30 miles (48 km) to the east, on the Santa Fe National Forest. A human-caused blaze, Viveash grew to 2,000…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Andresen
The authors present a finite-difference numerical model of heat flow within a horizontal section of a tree stem. Processes included in the model are solar radiative heating, infrared emission and absorption, convective heat exchange between tree surface and the atmosphere, and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy
What materials will emerge from todays research ideas to become the commonly accepted building products of 2020? What will durable materials look like in 2020? This paper attempts to address these questions by considering some current trends and then presenting a series of ideas…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lisle, Luce, Ziemer, May
Wildfire poses special problems for land-use planners. Responses to fire must be planned in a short period immediately after a fire, relying heavily on information compiled before the extent and severity of the actual fire is known. Secondly, it has been difficult to learn from…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES