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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ohmann, Gregory, Pierce, Wimberly, Fried
Poster presented at the Joint Fire Science Program Principal Investigator Workshop, November 2005.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Troutwine, Zuuring
Description not entered.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zuuring, Troutwine, Jones, Sullivan
Forest managers are challenged to fulfill conflicting social, biological, and commodity production objectives. To wisely use available, scarce resources for management activities, it is not enough to consider short term costs and effects of management (fuel reduction, planting,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Consalvi, Porterie, Nicolas, Loraud, Kaiss
A fast model of radiative impact on structures exposed to a fire front in the urban interface is presented. The front is viewed as a collection of turbulent diffusion flames whose properties (composition and temperature) are taken from a database previously created from a three-…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan, Jones, Krueger, Zuuring, Troutwine
Presents a guide to the operation of MAGIS eXpress, a spatial decision support system. This program spatially schedules treatments and road activities for small landscapes to design vegetation management projects. MAGIS eXpress is designed to install and run on personal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi
Throughout interior Alaska it is well known among land managers and fire management personnel that recently burned areas of black spruce can serve as a fuel break during most wildland fires. Recently burned black spruce forests are an important tool during wildland firefighting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rorig
The objective of this work is to incorporate existing weather predictions into fire preparedness and planning by forecasting the risk of dry thunderstorms. This has been done by analyzing precipitation, upper-air, and lightning strike data to generate a rule that will be used to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Dyck
Post-processors are stand-alone applications that use output files produced by the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) to perform additional computations. The Suppose graphical user interface program can launch the post-processors as part of a simulation run. The post-processors…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Mann
Land managers face unique challenges in Alaska. Most of the boreal forest is currently managed as wilderness. Though largely free of direct human impacts, the boreal forest grows in a region that is now experiencing significant climate changes. In addition, the fire ecology of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Pitelka, Solomon, Nathan, Midgley, Fragoso, Lischke, Thompson
The rate of future climate change is likely to exceed the migration rates of most plant species. The replacement of dominant species by locally rare species may require decades, and extinctions may occur when plant species cannot migrate fast enough to escape the consequences of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Mann
Interior Alaska contains 140 million burnable acres and includes the largest National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges in the country. On average, wildland fires burn 1,000,000 acres in Interior Alaska each year and threaten the lives, property, and timber resources of Alaska…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnwell, Rodman, Koltun
The Anchorage Wildfire Exposure Model (AFEM) is the result of a phased Municipality Anchorage, Alaska (MOA) four-year wildfire risk assessment modeling process. The AFEM and associated projects arose out of a multi-agency effort to mitigate and respond to wildfire threats in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day, Guches, Heppler, Lentz, Lococo, MacGregor, Plattes, Shetler, Simos, Strohmeier, Wordell
A critical operational need exists for dispatch coordinators, fire managers and agency administrators to determine preparedness levels’ on a national, multi-agency basis. The preparedness planning processes now in place resulted from mandates and direction following the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Fleming
When this project was proposed, there were no good mapping tools to relate information collected on field inventory plots with remotely sensed imagery, a technique that was needed in order to produce useful wildland fuel data. The project was envisioned to develop and test an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fried, Winter, Vogt
A conceptual model of how people living at the wildland-urban interface evaluate acceptability of three fuel management approaches (prescribed fire, mechanical treatment, and enforcement of defensible space ordinances) was developed from focus group interviews, and a set of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Extensive bibliographic list of references on Alaska wildfire from the Geophysical Institute.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Solomon, Medaglia, Adamo, Dietrich, Mugnai, Ceipidor
The authors present a brief description of a 1.5-dimensional thunderstorm model with a lightning parameterization that utilizes an explicit microphysical scheme to model lightning-producing clouds. The main intent of this work is to describe the basic microphysical and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads, Fujioka, Chen, Burgan
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center has been making experimental, near-real-time, weekly to seasonal fire danger forecasts for the past 5 years. US fire danger forecasts and validations are based on standard indices from the National Fire Danger Rating System (…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reutebuch, Andersen, McGaughey
Airborne laser scanning of forests has been shown to provide accurate terrain models and, at the same time, estimates of multiple resource inventory variables through active sensing of three-dimensional (3D) forest vegetation. Brief overviews of airborne laser scanning…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reams, Haines, Renner, Wascom, Kingre
The dramatic expansion into the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) places property, natural assets, and human life at risk from wildfire destruction. The U.S. National Fire Plan encourages communities to implement laws and outreach programs for pre-fire planning to mitigate the risk…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Preisler, Grulke, Bytnerowicz, Esperanza
Monitoring and predicting ozone concentrations are a matter of special concern because ozone is one of the most important plant-damaging air pollutants in the world. High ozone concentrations have been shown to be harmful to plants not only within urban areas but also in remote…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ponomarev
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Laughlin
Wildfire poses risks to fish and wildlife habitat, among other things. Management projects to reduce the severity of wildfire effects by implementing hazardous fuel reduction treatments also pose risks. How can land managers determine which risk is greater? Comparison of risks…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andersen, Reutebuch, McGaughey
Accurate digital terrain models (DTMs) are necessary for a variety of forest resource management applications, including watershed management, timber harvest planning, and fire management. Traditional methods for acquiring topographic data typically rely on aerial photogrammetry…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES