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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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WeatherBrief®-NET is a subscription service provided by WeatherBank, offering up to 40,000 weather products. WeatherBank provides weather data and products on a personal level with access through three subscription plans. The WeatherBrief®-NET Commercial Account offers over 40,…
Year: 2008
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Weather Information Management System (WIMS) is a system to collect, store and manage current weather information, and to provide access to historical data. WIMS replaced the Administrative Forest Fire Information Retrieval and Management System (AFFIRMS) as the host for the…
Year: 2003
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Larkin, Hoadley
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 that allows maps of ventilation potential to be…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Sestak
Ventilated Valley Box Model is a screening model designed to predict ground level concentrations of particulate matter and gaseous pollutants under stagnation conditions in mountain valleys. The model assumes completely mixed valley with defined top; simplicity requires several…
Year: 1991
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Roe, Robson, Robinson, Kuit, Frid, Daniel, Carr, Beukema, Bailey, Abraham
The Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) is a user-friendly, Windows-based computer tool which provides a state and transition landscape modelling framework for examining the role of various disturbance agents and management actions in vegetation change. It allows users…
Year: 2007
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Vaisala Thunderstorm Information System is a modular lightning detection system designed to meet total lightning and cloud-to-ground lightning information needs in meteorology, hydrology, electric power distribution, aviation, defense and telecommunications. Lightning is a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Sutherland, Miller
The Understory Response Model is a species-specific computer model that qualitatively predicts change in total species biomass for grasses, forbs, and shrubs after thinning, prescribed fire, or wildfire. The model examines the effect of fuels management on plant survivorship (…
Year: 2005
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Abraham, Bailey, Beukema, Carr, Daniel, Frid, Robinson, Robson, Kurz
The Tool for Exploratory Landscape Scenario Analyses (TELSA) is a spatially explicit, GIS-based landscape-level model for simulating terrestrial ecosystem dynamics. It helps resource managers and planners assess the consequences of alternative management scenarios at the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Major wildland/urban interface fire losses, principally residences, continue to occur. Although the problem is not new, the specific mechanisms are not well known on how structures ignite in association with wildland fires. In response to the need for a better understanding of…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Smoke Impact Spreadsheet (SIS) model is a simple-to-use, screening-level modeling system for calculating PM2.5 emissions and airborne concentrations downwind of natural or managed wildland fires. As a screening model, SIS provides conservative (that is, tending toward higher…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Chew, Moeller, Stalling
OpenSIMPPLLE is a spatially explicit, landscape level, dynamic simulation system that is designed as a management tool to facilitate the use of landscape ecology concepts in designing and evaluating land management alternatives for a range of planning scales.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Sestak
This program calculates the consumption of fuel, emission of particles, and dispersion of these pollutants produced by prescribed burning of forest and range vegetation.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Sensitive Area Model, or SAM, is a spatial analysis tool that allows multiple-theme overlays, theme buffering, and weighting of input themes to analyze sensitive resource areas within National Park Service units. The model was previously known as the Quiet Places initiative…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Gould
Front line firefighters have another tool that provides a way to be heard and get unsafe situations resolved. SAFENET is a form, and process, that has been in demand by firefighters themselves. It's a method for reporting and resolving safety concerns encountered in wildland…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
RAMS provides a consistent process for developing prevention and fuels management programs. RAMS allows users to prioritize areas within their planning unit, consider various prevention and/or fuels treatment alternatives, and develop a budget. RAMS includes three components:…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Skeels
The National Interagency Resource Ordering and Status System (ROSS) project is a National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) sponsored information systems development project. ROSS is a computer software program which automates the resource ordering, status, and reporting…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Redcard maintains and provides access to the Incident Command System qualifications of people. Specifically, it tracks fire certifications (training, experience, qualifications, task books, target positions, and fitness) for both Forest Service (FS) and non-FS personnel. Redcard…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala, Carlton, Holmquist
RERAP is a Windows based program that helps calculate the information needed to manage prescribed fires, prescribed natural fires, and wildfires. RERAP allows dynamically calculating the risk of undesired fire movement and smoke dispersion.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
RAINS is the Rapid Access Information System, an interactive, web-based, map and database server developed in partnership with the EPA. Together, BlueSky and RAINS allow for quantitative assessment of smoke impacts on sensitive receptors. Air regulators use BlueSky and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Software for organizing and retrieving digital photos of different vegetation types with associated fuels data. Part of the FMAPlus software.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
PLATA is a Windows-based application for doing economic analysis of a planning project. PLATA does an 'efficiency' analysis, using net present value, cost/benefit ratio, and annual equivalent value. It also calculates trust fund sufficiency, allocates treatment costs by fund…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Latham
PLUMP is a one-dimensional time dependent plume model that includes parameterized cloud physics and entrainment. It generates vertical profiles of water vapor, cloud particles, rain and ice, temperature anomaly between the plume and surroundings, and vertical velocity from a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
A module of NFMAS, allows the user to analyze historical wildland fire occurrence for wildland fire planning. PCHA99 allows the user to import fire and weather data for the desired planning unit, review and edit the data, generate fire summaries for further fire planning, and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
Lightning causes most wildfires in the western United States, and is a major cause of fire elsewhere in the U.S. Because most lightning occurs with significant precipitation, however, simple predictions of Lightning Activity Level (LAL) do not accurately determine fire ignition…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single source for wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire use and incident management terminology commonly used by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and its Working Teams. The NWCG has directed that…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES