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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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CALPUFF is an advanced non-steady-state meteorological and air quality modeling system developed and distributed by Earth Tech, Inc. The model has been adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in its Guideline on Air Quality Models as the preferred model…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
BlueSky is a modeling framework. BlueSky modularly links a variety of independent models of fire information, fuel loading, fire consumption, fire emissions, and smoke dispersion. At each modeling step, BlueSky has several different specific models from which to choose. BlueSky…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
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ANNOTATION: BIOPAK is a software package that contains a plant measurement library of over 1,100 documented equations that estimate plant components, e.g. leaf mass, leaf area, stem wood mass, bark mass, fuel size classes. BIOPAK can choose equations from those contained in an…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bevins, Heinsch, Tirmenstein, Noonan, Bartlette, Scott, Seli, Kelley, Carlton, Custer
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire behavior, fire effects, and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
AMIS is used to collect, store, and analyze information about aircraft usage within Forest Service controls. AMIS is a Web-based application for entering and storing information from the FS-6500-122, Flight Use Report. Aircraft use information is required to be reported by each…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Automated Lightning Mapping System (ALMS) allows you to download near real time lightning location information from the Bureau of Land Management lightning data server on the Internet and then view thatdata using ArcMap 9.x.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Allows automated data entry into Incident Command System Form ICS-209, Incident Status Summary. Transmits summaries from reporting units to regional and national databases. Improves timely and complete reporting for use in strategic decision making. Generates automated ICS-209…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The AFS Fire Weather Database provides access to fire weather information from a variety of sources such as RAWS (Remote Automated Weather Stations) and manually observed weather data. Output formats include display of hourly weather station sensor data, recent sensor data for a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Danger PocketCard is a tool based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) to help you (the firefighter) develop an awareness of the current fire situation that you are about to step into. This FDRPC is for the fire weather index for the Chugach National Forest…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The AIMS program provides information on CDF's utilization of air assets. AIMS tracks aircraft flight time, retardant costs, pilot times, per diem and other associated incident costs. This data is used by CDF Finance to recover aircraft costs from other Agencies. The data is…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
This data product contains the first continental forest stand age map of North America by combining forest inventory data, historical fire data, optical satellite data and the dataset from NASA's Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System (LEDAPS) project. Raster…
Year: 2015
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
This data product contains data used in an evaluation of the effects of two common methods to collect fuel moisture content samples between November 2004 and June 2005. A chainsaw or a handheld pruning saw cut 1 inch thick disks from 3 inch lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) posts…
Year: 2014
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Smoke emission factors (EFs) have been developed for a variety of wildland fuels beginning in the late 1960s. Many of these EFs have been presented in a variety of outlets and there is no centralized repository containing many of the EFs developed in the 1970s and 1980s. This…
Year: 2014
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
This data product contains a spatial database of wildfires that occurred in the United States from 1992 to 2012, generated for the national Fire Program Analysis (FPA) system. The wildfire records were acquired from the reporting systems of federal, state, and local fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
This data product contains a spatial database of wildfires that occurred in the United States from 1992 to 2013, generated for the national Fire Program Analysis (FPA) system. The wildfire records were acquired from the reporting systems of federal, state, and local fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. This makes the WUI a focal area for human-environment conflicts such as wildland fires, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and biodiversity decline. Using…
Year: 2015
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
This data product contains satellite image-derived burn severity indices as well as fire effects measured after eight large wildfire events in the Western United States. Fire effects variables were measured or calculated at 418 plots, nested in 50 field sites, located across the…
Year: 2010
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
This data product contains transcripts from 74 videotaped or audiotaped interviews of highly experienced wildland fire managers that were conducted between 2006 and 2009. These experts have extensive expertise in prescribed fire, fire behavior prediction and wildland fire use.…
Year: 2012
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
This data product contains scanned photos from pivotal experiments conducted by Richard Rothermel and Hal Anderson at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory from the early 1960s through the mid-1980s. The scans document early research that forms the foundation of fire spread and…
Year: 2013
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
This data product contains a spatial database of wildfires that occurred in the United States from 1992 to 2011, generated for the national Fire Program Analysis (FPA) system. The wildfire records were acquired from the reporting systems of federal, state, and local fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Large Fire Database contains current and historical reported fire locations and fire perimeters (since 1939 and 1942, respectively). It was originally developed during the early 1990s by Nancy French and others from the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan,…
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Fourteen existing published and unpublished fire history (or stand age) tree-ring datasets were compiled into the Alaska Fire History Database. For each of the plots in the database, fire dates, possible fire dates, and tree establishment dates were summarized (as applicable)…
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Thorton
Biome-BGC is a computer program that estimates fluxes and storage of energy, water, carbon, and nitrogen for the vegetation and soil components of terrestrial ecosystems. We call it a process model because its algorithms represent physical and biological processes that control…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES