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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Justice, Giglio, Korontzi, Owens, Morisette, Roy, Descloitres, Alleaume, Petitcolin, Kaufman
Fire products are now available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) including the only current global daily active fire product. This paper describes the algorithm, the products and the associated validation activities. High-resolution ASTER data,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
From the text...'On July 1, 1992, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station entered into a cooperative agreement (FWS Ref. No. 14-48-0009-92-962 DCN: 98210-2-3927) to conduct a study on 'Heat Transfer into the Duff and Organic…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Borsum, Haines
From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniel, Meitner, Weidemann
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Stocks, Lawson
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rupp, Starfield, Chapin, Duffy
In the boreal biome, fire is the major disturbance agent affecting ecosystem change, and fire dynamics will likely change in response to climatic warming. We modified a spatially explicit model of Alaskan subarctic treeline dynamics (ALFRESCO) to simulate boreal vegetation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gibson, Prepas, McEachern
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pascual, Roy, Guichard, Flierl
Three different lattice-based models for antagonistic ecological interactions, both nonlinear and stochastic,exhibit similar power-law scalings in the geometry of clusters. Specifically, cluster size distributions andperimeter-area curves follow power-law scalings. In the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reed, McKelvey
This paper examines the distribution of areas burned in forest fires. Empirical size distributions, derived from extensive fire records, for six regions in North America are presented. While they show some commonalities, it appears that a simple power-law distribution of sizes,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
Presented for Lesson 31 of the S-590 Advanced Fire Behavior Interpretation Course at the National Advanced Resource Technology Center in Marana, Arizona, 10-22 March 2002.
Outline of Presentation:I. CFFDRS StructureII. Fire Weather Index Module or SubsystemIII. Fire Behavior…
Year: 2002
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bond, van Wilgen
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bond, van Wilgen
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stock, Williams, Cleaves
Prescribed burning expenditures are based on the fire manager's judgment about the 'risk' of the fire escaping and his/her anticipation of the consequences of such an escape. In a high-risk site, more resources are needed to prepare the site for a safe burn. Ifa fire escapes, or…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paragi, Johnson, Katnik, Magoun
During 1991-1994 we tested whether martens (Martes americana) selectively used postfire seres in the Alaskan taiga and whether selection could be explained by differences in marten hunting behaviour, habitat, prey abundance, or demography. Forest seral stages included early-…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Edenius, Elmberg
We address effects of large-scale forestry on landscape structure and the structure and composition of boreal bird communities in North Sweden. Specifically, we ask: after controlling for the effect of patch size, forest age and tree species composition, is there any residual…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delong, Tanner
Managing forests for sustainable use requires that both the biological diversity of the forests and a viable forest industry be maintained. A current approach towards maintaining biological diversity is to pattern forest management practices after those of natural disturbance…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vega-García, Lee, Woodard, Titus
Human-caused forest fires are a serious problem throughout the world. Believing that there are predictable characteristics common to all fires, we analyzed the historical human-caused fire occurrence data for the Whitecourt Provincial Forest of Alberta using artificial neural…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Linn, Reisner, Colman, Winterkamp
A coupled atmospheric/wildfire behavior model is described that utilizes physics-based process models to represent wildfire behavior. Five simulations are presented, four of which are highly idealized situations that are meant to illustrate some of the dependencies of the model…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sánchez-Velásquez, Ezcurra, Martínez-Ramos, Álvarez-Buylla, Lorente
Summary1. Zea Diploperennis is a wild relative of maize that is endemic to the Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. Because this species is a priority for conservation in the reserve, the effects on its populations of the most common types of anthropogenic…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rideout, Botti
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nadeau, Corns
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fortin, Payette
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Leduc, Harvey, Gauthier
The combination of certain features of fire disturbance, notably fire frequency, size and severity, may be used to characterize the disturbance regime in any region of the boreal forest. As some consequences of fire resemble the effects of industrial forest harvesting,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bryden, Ragland, Rutland
A general model of the pyrolysis of a wood slab is presented and validated with a set of heat release data. The model is applied to particle half-thicknesses from 5 ~im to 5 cm, temperatures from 800 to 2000 K, and moisture contents from 0% ~ to 30%. Internal temperatures,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS