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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Finney
[From the Introduction] Fire as a landscape process is of broad interest to ecologists and land managers. Fires alter forest age-distributions (Heinselman, 1973; Van Wagner, 1978), are sensitive to climate (Balling et al., 1992, Swetnam and Bettancourt, 1990; Swetnam, 1993;…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gardner, Romme, Turner
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clearwater, Nifinluri, van Gardingen
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wotton, McAlpine, Hobbs
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rittenhouse
From the text...'The help desk staff works closely with all agencies involved in wildland fire and aviation management to provide technical updates, new and updated applications, and notifications affecting fire application users. The help desk currently supports more than 40…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunton
From the text...'In May 1998, the National Advisory Group for Fire Danger Rating reviewed and approved a new weather observation data transfer format (WxObs98)...This decision signals the impending retirement of the weather observation format developed for the 1972 version of…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albright, Meisner
From the text...'A fire simulation system combines an underlying fire prediction model with a fire simulation technique. By categorizing the various types of fire prediction models and simulation techniques, we can identify the similarities and differences among the systems. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finney, Andrews
From the text...'The FARSITE Fire Area Simulator is a computer program designed to simulate fire growth using existing models of fire behavior found in the BEHAVE Fire Behavior Prediction and Fuel Modeling System (Andrews 1986) and in the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg, Hardy, Ottmar, Snell, Acheson, Peterson, Seamon, Lahm, Wade
From the text...'Major policy initiatives and implementation of new management strategies are currently underway in both air resource and fire management. Land managers are rapidly expanding the use of fire to manage ecosystems, while air resource managers are accelerating…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Werth
From the text...'In conclusion, El Niño and La Niña are extreme phases of a naturally occurring climatic cycle known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation. Both affect wind and sea surface temperature patterns in the tropical Pacific Ocean. El Niño is the warm water and La Niña…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
A series of experimental fires was conducted to document point-source fire growth burning on full-tree harvested jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) sites with a feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi (B.S.G.) Mitt.) duff layer. Results showed that the time for any of the fires to…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coles, Conlon, Cotton, Eisenstadt, Goldfarb, Hutchison, Joy, Wolter
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davies, Unam
Atmospheric composition, local climate and sapling gas exchange were monitored to assess the short-term effects of smoke-haze from the 1997 Indonesian forest fires. Atmospheric concentrations of particulate matter, SO2, CO, CH4 and CO2, and relative humidity were elevated, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Porterie, Loraud, Morvan, Larini
A computational procedure for predicting the buoyant plume above a line fire in a cross wind is reported. The present model takes into account the interaction between the plume and the surrounding flow by solving the two-dimensional equations for the conservation of mass,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Handbook for criteria pollutant inventory development: a beginner's guide for point and area sources
This document will help state, local, and tribal air pollution control agency personnel compile an inventory of criteria pollutant emissions from stationary (point and area) sources. The information contained in this document is intended to serve as a reference guide only, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goode, Yokelson, Susott, Ward
The trace gas emissions from six biomass fires, including three grass fires, were measured using a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer coupled to an open-path, multipass cell (OP-FTIR). The quantified emissions consisted of carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, water vapor,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trelles, McGrattan, Baum
The effect that the wind's vertical variation has on fire plume behaviour is investigated. A parabolized set of governing equations are discretized using finite differences to arrive at the numerical model. Lagrangian particles are used to visualize the flow, account for…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Rideout
Evolving wildfire management policies are aimed at more comprehensive treatments of current wildland fire management problems. Key policies are identified that affect wildfire and fuels management. Policies are discussed in the context of institutional factors such as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Hardy, Ottmar, Snell, Acheson, Peterson, Seamon, Lahm, Wade
This strategic plan is a technical discussion of the implementation and development of models and data systems used to manage the air quality impacts of wildland and prescribed fires. Strategies and priorities in the plan were generated by the Express Team (chartered by the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Ottmar, Hallett
Fire managers and safety officers concerned with smoke exposure among fire crews can use electronic carbon monoxide (CO) monitors to track and prevent overexposure to smoke. Commonly referred to as dosimeters, these lightweight instruments measure the concentration of CO in the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The FORBS Program is based on the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS). It utilizes existing Personal Computer Historical Analysis (PCHA), Interagency Initial Attack Assessment (IIAA), and Arc View processes. FORBS is tied to the Suppression Analysis developed in…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fact sheet on the final regional haze regulations for protection of visibility in national parks and wilderness areas.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES