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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Albini, Brown
Development of equations for prediciting fuel bed depth (called 'bulk depth' herein) appropriate for modeling fire behavior in slash is described. Bulk depth (y) was correlated with the expected number of 1/4-to 1-inch-diameter particle intercepts per foot of vertical plane…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Furman
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney, Noste, Wilson
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robichaud, Ashmun
A considerable investment in post-fire research over the past decade has improved our understanding of wildfire effects on soil, hydrology, erosion and erosion-mitigation treatment effectiveness. Using this new knowledge, we have developed several tools to assist land managers…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keywood, Kanakidou, Stohl, Dentener, Grassi, Meyer, Torseth, Edwards, Thompson, Lohmann, Burrows
Fire has a role in ecosystem services; naturally produced wildfires are important for the sustainability of many terrestrial biomes and fire is one of nature's primary carbon-cycling mechanisms. Under a warming climate, it is likely that fire frequency and severity will increase…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, Connot, Peterson, Martin
The LANDFIRE Program provides comprehensive vegetation and fuel datasets for the entire United States. As with many large-scale ecological datasets, vegetation and landscape conditions must be updated periodically to account for disturbances, growth, and natural succession. The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Page, Hurtt, Thomson, Bond-Lamberty, Patel, Wise, Calvin, Kyle, Clarke, Edmonds, Janetos
The present and future concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide depends on both anthropogenic and natural sources and sinks of carbon. Most proposed climate mitigation strategies rely on a progressive transition to carbon-efficient technologies to reduce industrial emissions…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kintisch
Scientists and firefighters ponder new ways to predict the spread of wildfire as the U.S. West faces ever more potent blazes.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hyde, Dickinson, Bohrer, Calkin, Evers, Gilbertson-Day, Nicolet, Ryan, Tague
Wildland fire management has moved beyond a singular focus on suppression, calling for wildfire management for ecological benefit where no critical human assets are at risk. Processes causing direct effects and indirect, long-term ecosystem changes are complex and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hawbaker, Radeloff, Stewart, Hammer, Keuler, Clayton
National-scale analyses of fire occurrence are needed to prioritize fire policy and management activities across the United States. However, the drivers of national-scale patterns of fire occurrence are not well understood, and how the relative importance of human or biophysical…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goodrick, Achtemeier, Larkin, Liu, Strand
Among the key issues in smoke management is predicting the magnitude and location of smoke effects. These vary in severity from hazardous (acute health conditions and drastic visibility impairment to transportation) to nuisance (regional haze), and occur across a range of scales…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Finney, Cohen, McAllister, Jolly
We explore the basis of understanding wildland fire behaviour with the intention of stimulating curiosity and promoting fundamental investigations of fire spread problems that persist even in the presence of tremendous modelling advances. Internationally, many fire models have…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Whitman, Rapaport, Sherren
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the region where development meets and intermingles with wildlands. The WUI has an elevated fire risk due to the proximity of development and residents to wildlands with natural wildfire regimes. Existing methods of delineating WUI are…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wang, Ma, Li
The evaluation of area-specific risks for large fires is of great policy relevance to fire management and prevention. When analyzing data for the burned areas of large fires in Canada, we found that there are dramatic patterns that cannot be adequately modelled by traditional…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ueyama, Ichii, Iwata, Euskirchen, Zona, Rocha, Harazono, Iwama, Nakai, Oechel
Carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes from a network of 21 eddy covariance towers were upscaled to estimate the Alaskan CO2 budget from 2000 to 2011 by combining satellite remote sensing data, disturbance information, and a support vector regression model. Data were compared with the CO2…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sims
Governments provide technical, political, and financial incentives to encourage timber harvesting for the purpose of mitigating natural forest disturbance. To provide guidance concerning these incentives, this paper integrates a natural disturbance regime into a dynamic model of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jandt
In this short but powerful paper authors Mann, Rupp, Olson and Duffy look for evidence that Alaska’s forests are already responding to changes in fire regime. They use a tool that was developed in lock-step with Alaska fire management agencies called Boreal ALFRESCO. (Click HERE…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simard, Young
From the Introduction: 'AIRPRO is a simulation model designed for computer implementation. Its purpose is to simulate the use of air tankers in wildland fire suppression operations. The model can be used to analyze a wide variety of questions with respect to air tanker systems,…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Young, Redmond
This report discusses the application of results generated by AIRPRO to specific air tanker problems in the Province of New Brunswick. First, the fire environment of the province is described, followed by an overview of the current air tanker system. The effectiveness of the S2D…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams, Broersma, Van Ryswyk
Energy balance measurements of evapotranspiration from very dry seeded rangeland grass (Agropyron desertorum) near Kamloops, British Columbia, are compared with daily equilibrium evapotranspiration estimates. The equilibrium model was found to seriously overestimate…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
An interactive computer program that can be used to analyse historical fire weather data and determine how frequently specific prescribed burn fire weather prescriptions have occured in the past is described. The Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada.…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Takle, Brown
A hybrid density function is given for describing wind-speed distributions having nonzero probability of "calm.” A Weibull probability graph paper designed specifically for plotting wind-speed distributions is used to determine distribution parameters to within a few percent of…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Young, Redmond
This report describes procedures used to validate AIRPRO - an air tanker productivity computer simulation model. It begins by discussing the general concept of validation and listing specific producedures that can be used to test models. The supportive components of AIRPRO are…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuquay
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS