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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Keane, Mincemoyer, Schmidt, Garner
Fuel input layers for the FARSITE fire growth model were created for all lands in and around the Gila National Forest, New Mexico, using satellite imagery, terrain modeling, and biophysical simulation. FARSITE is a spatially explicit fire growth model used to predict the growth…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Harkins, Morgan, Neuenschwander, Chrisman, Zack, Jacobson, Grant, Sampson
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF), in partnership with the University of Idaho, the Fire Sciences Laboratory, and The Sampson Group, developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) based wildfire hazard-risk assessment. The assessment was completed for the North Zone…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Stroppiana, Pinnock, Gregoire
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kita, Fujiwara, Kawakami
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tang, Shao
Drones of various shapes, sizes, and functionalities have emerged over the past few decades, and their civilian applications are becoming increasingly appealing. Flexible, low-cost, and high-resolution remote sensing systems that use drones as platforms are important for filling…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Short
Analyses to identify and relate trends in wildfire activity to factors such as climate, population, land use or land cover and wildland fire policy are increasingly popular in the United States. There is a wealth of US wildfire activity data available for such analyses, but…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wang, Piao, Xu, Ciais, MacBean, Myneni, Li
Aim: Change in spring phenology is a sensitive indicator of ecosystem response to climate change, and exerts first-order control on the ecosystem carbon and hydrological cycles. The start of season (SOS) in spring can be estimated from satellite data using different…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tanimoto, Ikeda, Boersma, van der A, Garivait
Past studies suggest that forest fires contribute significantly to the formation of ozone in the troposphere. However, the emissions of ozone precursors from wildfires, and the mechanisms involved in ozone production from boreal fires, are very complicated. Moreover, an…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cole
Today's prescribed fire program manager is confronted with an increasingly complex dilemma. On the one hand, the science, knowledge, and commitment of managers regarding the role of prescribed fire across the landscape have grown appreciatively, only to be tempered by societal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Leenhouts
Wildland fire has been an integral part of the conterminous United States' ecological landscape for millennia. Today wildland fire has to compete with other socially desirable goals for a share of a limited air resource. New ozone, particulate, and visibility protection air-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Medler
Forest fires are not spatially uniform events. They result in a complicated mosaic of burned and unburned vegetation. To manage fuel loads and the associated fire hazard it is essential to improve our understanding of the spatial patterns of the potential effects of future fires…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hesseln, Rideout
The fire season of 2000 is one of the most severe on record, burning approximately seven million acres by the end of September—over 2.5 times the 10-year average of 2.6 million acres. Fires burning in the wildland-urban interface have resulted in millions of dollars of private…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mullen
The Cerro Grande has been called the biggest fire in New Mexico history. The Cerro Grande blaze raged across the hillsides above Los Alamos National Laboratory, then, driven by high winds, the fire raced through the Laboratory and the Los Alamos town site. The fire destroyed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these wildland fires on rural…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bentz
FINDIT, the Forest Insect and Disease Tally System, is an easy-to-use tool for analyzing insect and disease population information taken during stand surveys. Incidence of insects, pathogens, and other biotic and abiotic influences on forest ecosystems are summarized using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Alexander
The year 1999 marks the 50th anniversary of the Mann Gulch Fire that occurred in western Montana on August 5, 1949 (Matthews 1999). There has been considerable interest amongst the Canadian wildland fire community in the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire ever since the publishing of MacLean…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Landry, Matthews, Ramankutty
Changes in the current fire regime would directly affect carbon cycling, land–atmosphere exchanges, and atmospheric composition, and could therefore modulate the ongoing climate warming. We used a coupled climate–carbon model to quantify the effect of major changes in non-…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Short
Analyses to identify and relate trends in wildfire activity to factors such as climate, population, land use or land cover and wildland fire policy are increasingly popular in the United States. There is a wealth of US wildfire activity data available for such analyses, but…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

French, McKenzie, Billmire, Ottmar, Prichard, McCarty, Endsley
The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) was developed under NASA Carbon Cycle Science and Applications programs to provide a consistent approach to estimating emissions at continental to sub-continental scales (see http://wfeis.mtri.org). We present an overview of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kulig, Westlund
Transformation of research findings into relevant policies and programs is a principle for ensuring the creation of usable science. One way of achieving this is to employ knowledge translation to disseminate findings between researchers and end users. In this article the process…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hantson, Lasslop, Kloster, Chuvieco
Wildland fires are an important agent in the earth's system. Multiple efforts are currently in progress to better represent wildland fires in earth system models. Although wildland fires are a natural disturbance factor, humans have an important effect on fire occurrence by…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Jandt, York
Introductions and upcoming workshop discussion presented at the Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015. This comprises the first 10 minutes of the video.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Heinrichs, Stevens
Presentation by Tom Heinrichs and Eric Stevens, GINA, from the Alaska Fire Science Workshop, October 16, 2015. Their presentation starts at the 52:10 mark of the video.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES