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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jordan, Ichoku, Hoff
A newly developed method, which involves the use of satellite measurements of energy released by fires, was used to estimate smoke emissions in the United States (US) Southern Great Plains (SGP). This SGP region was chosen because extensive agricultural and planned burning…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chapin, Trainor, Huntington, Lovecraft, Zavaleta, Natcher, McGuire, Nelson, Ray, Calef, Fresco, Huntington, Rupp, DeWilde, Naylor
Recent global environmental and social changes have created a set of ''wicked problems'' for which there are no optimal solutions. In this article, we illustrate the wicked nature of such problems by describing the effects of global warming on the wildfire regime and indigenous…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yassemi, Dragicevic, Schmidt
The integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and environmental modelling has been widely investigated for more than a decade. However, such integration has remained a challenging task due to the temporal changes of environmental processes and the static nature of GIS…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girard, Payette, Gagnon
Aim Our two main goals are first to evaluate the resilience of the boreal forest according to latitude across the closed-crown forest zone using the post-disturbance distribution and cover of lichen woodlands and closed-crown forests as a metric, and second to identify the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boxall, Englin
An important consideration in managing fire-prone forests is the intertemporal impacts of forest fires. This analysis examines these impacts in a forest recreation setting by fitting a combined stated and revealed data set to explicitly model the effects of forest regrowth…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robbins, Eckelmann, Quiñones
This paper presents a summary of the forest fire reports in the insular Caribbean derived from both management reports and an analysis of publicly available Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrodiometer (MODIS) satellite active fire products from the region. A vast difference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhang, Kondragunta, Schmidt, Kogan
Biomass burning is a major source of aerosols that affect air quality and the Earth's radiation budget. Current estimates of biomass burning emissions vary markedly due to uncertainties in biomass density, combustion efficiency, emission factor, and burned area. This study…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Henderson, Burkholder, Jackson, Brauer, Ichoku
Plume dispersion models may improve assessment of the health effects associated with forest fire smoke, but they require considerable expertise in atmospheric and fire sciences to initialize and evaluate. Products from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sankey, Moffet, Weber
Much interest lies in long-term recovery rates of sagebrush communities after fire in the western United States, as sagebrush communities comprise millions of hectares of rangelands and are an important wildlife habitat. Little is known about postfire changes in sagebrush canopy…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klenk, Bull, Cohen
The emulation of natural disturbance (END) is said to be the most promising avenue for implementing sustainable forest management; however, there appears to be no consensus as to the meaning of the END. We have interviewed forest scientists across Canada and, with the use of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall, Freeburn, de Groot, Pritchard, Lynham, Landry
The severity of a burn for post-fire ecological effects has been assessed with the composite burn index (CBI) and the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR). This study assessed the relationship between these two variables across recently burned areas located in the western…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The National Weather Service Fire Weather Program provides weather forecasting and meteorological support services to state and federal wildland fire management agencies. An Intergovernmental Fire Weather User's Summit, sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roberts, Mallik
Natural Pinus resinosa (red pine) stands in Newfoundland are restricted to 22 small, dry, nutrient-poor sites. A short wildfire cycle (15 - 30 yr) of both surface and crown fire regulates stand perimeters and is the main factor in regulating stand development. At the nucleus of…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Wells
From the text... 'One of the potential problems with the use of prescribed burning in the past has been the lack of any systematic investigation into the ecological effects of this forest management practice on the ecosystem. In 1991, the planning process to address this issue…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Price, Rind
Each year lightning ignites approximately 10,000 wildland fires in the United States alone. Therefore, when considering how climate change may affect wildland fires, one needs to consider possible changes in lightning activity. With the aid of satellite cloud and lightning…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Meisner, Fujioka
The United States Historical Climatology Network (HCN) database was compiled by the National Climatic Data Center in response to a compelling interest in climate change. The database contains monthly temperature and precipitation data for approxiamtely 1200 stations in the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCutchan, Chow
A 30-day fire weather forecast system predicts the monthly mean afternoon temperature, dew point, and wind speed at the 127 National Weather Service (NWS) stations across the United States. The forecast afternoon monthly mean temperature and dew point are then used to calculate…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Whistler
This paper describes a system for preparing monthly outlooks for fire-weather elements in the United States. The system is based on multiple regression equations that specify monthly mean anomalies of precipitation, temperature, dewpoint, and wind speed from concurrent anomalies…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reutebuch, Hardy
Large-scale aerial photographs of slash piles in harvested units were evaluated with an analytical stereoplotter for determining dimensions and volumes. The photogrammetric method provides accurate and efficient volume estimates for calculating fuel loadings and distributions on…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Xanthopoulos, Wakimoto
The objective of the study was the development of an empirical model to predict when a surface fire may ignite the forest crown and become a crown fire. Through an extensive literature review candidate variables for inclusion in the model were identified. The importance of these…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richards
This paper shows how equations that simulate fire front growth for constant slope and spatially independent and velocity can be generalized to describe fire front growth for spatially and temporally varying fuel, topography and wind velocity. The equations are a set of first…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer
Firebrands spread fire efficiently, but their occurrence is difficult to understand and predict. It is obvious that potential firebrands form and burn-up continuously in any wildland fire, just as it is apparent that there is upward motion above a fire. But, firebrands do not…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Todd, Ogilvie
The concepts of a Prescribed Fire Ignition Expert System (PFIES) are discussed. The system will be designed to be used in planning any prescribed burn that utilizes the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in setting the weather prescription. The idea for an expert system…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin, Finney, Molina, Sapsis, Stephens, Scott, Weise
Dimensional analysis has potential to help explain and predict physical phenomena, but has been used very little in studies of wildland fire behavior. By combining variables into dimensionless groups, the number of variables to be handled and the experiments to be run is greatly…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lanoville, Mallinson
Fire seasons in the lower Mackenzie River Valley, located in the northwestern portion of the Nortwest Territories, are typically of short duration with intermittent periods of intense drying of the forest fuels under continuous or near-continuous sunlight. Disturbances moving…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS