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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Butler, Cohen
Quantitative information regarding safety zone size for wildland firefighters is limited. We present a 3-surface theoretical model that describes the net radiant energy transfer to a firefighter standing a specified distance from a fire of specified height. Model predictions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hefner
The forest resources of this country must be protected from wildfire. Protection does not eliminate fire but does reduce loss from fire. In recent years, more acres have been burned on the unprotected 3 percent of forest land than on the 97 percent under organized fire…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Brown
A century of wildfire suppression in the United States has led to increased fuel loading and large-scale ecological change across some of the nation's forests. Land management agencies have responded by increasing the use of prescribed fire and thinning. However, given the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ziel
Robert "Zeke" Ziel, a long-term analyst and fire behavior specialist for the State of Alaska, Zeke gives an overview of the past and current tools used in Alaska (and elsewhere) for Landscape Risk Assessment and exposure to wildfire. Modeling is more art than science in that the…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Devon Barnes, from the University of Alberta, spent the field season of 2013 in Alaska conducting sprinkler watering treatments in spruce forest to understand the optimum duration and effectiveness of treatments. He is finishing writing up the results for a M.S. Degree and…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Haines, Renner, Reams, Granskog
States, counties and local governments in the United States have dramatically increased their wildfire mitigation efforts in recent years. Policymakers and fire officials are employing a wide range of regulatory and voluntary wildfire risk reduction programs to protect residents…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hagge, Bryden, Dietenberger
Cone calorimeter tests show that backing board materials do not affect the ignition time, initial heat release rate, or the total heat released of combustion for redwood slabs. However, it has been observed that backing board materials alter combustion performance by altering…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Groisman, Knight, Heim, Razuvaev, Sherstyukov, Speranskaya
Significant climatic changes over the high latitudes in the 20th century have been reflected in many atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial variables. Changes in surface air temperature, precipitation, growing season duration, and snow cover cause changes in numerous derived…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gray
From Introduction and Background: During 1976-77, the Slave Lake Forest prepared a Management Issues Report that outlined, in order of priority, all areas requiring integrated resource management planning. The Big Bend area was designated as the priority area for fire danger…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flieger
[from the text] The long-time role of fire in the forests of eastern Canada is masked, I believe, by the history of Canadian forest management in the exploitive years since 1920. There is now more forest land occupied by Industry -- mainly the Pulp and Paper Industry -- than…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cunningham, Goodrick, Hussaini, Linn, Xia
Plumes from wildfires and prescribed fires represent a critical aspect of smoke management and air quality assessment, and as such it is important to understand the structure and dynamics of these plumes, both with respect to a basic understanding of the phenomena and with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Butler, Alexander, Viegas
A model was developed to predict the ignition of forest crown fuels above a surface fire based on heat transfer theory. The crown fuel ignition model (CFIM) integrates fluid dynamics and heat transfer principles with empirical formulations where our knowledge of the physical…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Comiskey
In 1967, the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska began producing isoline maps of buildup index by hand on a daily basis. These maps proved to be operationally valuable. In 1969, it was proposed that the isoline maps and other fire-danger ratings be produced by machine. By the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen, Butler
Residential losses associated with wildland fires have become a serious international fire protection problem. The radiant heat flux from burning vegetation adjacent to a structure is a principal ignition factor. A thermal radiation and ignition model estimated structure…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cindrity, Vogt
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The six standard relative numerical ratings of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System associated with a prescribed fire previously reported on in the literature (Woodard, P.M., Bentz, J.A., Van Nest, T., 1983. Producing a prescribed crown fire in a subalpine forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Finney, Bradshaw, Forthofer, McHugh, Stratton, Jimenez
A new software tool has been developed to simulate surface wind speed and direction at the 100m to 300 m scale. This tool is useful when trying to estimate fire behavior in mountainous terrain. It is based on widely used computational fluid dynamics technology and has been…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
For the seven year period from 1998 to 2004, an average of almost 79,000 fires per year on the U.S. Federal and State land burned a yearly average of over 22,000 Km2. An average of 1 billion US dollars was spent on suppression each year by the federal agencies alone. Variation…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bevins
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is based on a collection of models that describe fire behavior, fire effects, and the fire environment. BehavePlus is the successor to the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system (Andrews 1986, Andrews and Chase 1989, Andrews…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Stocks
In 1995, the Canadian Forest Service published two wall posters related to the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System, both of which will be displayed during this poster paper presentation. One, jointly produced with the Alaska Division of Forestry entitled 'Head…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stocks, Fosberg, Wotton, Lynham, Ryan
After a decade of speculation and debate, there is now a general scientific consensus that rising greenhouse gas levels in the earth’s atmosphere will result in significant climate change over the next century. The recent statement by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lyon, Huff, Telfer, Schreiner, Smith
The literature describing animals’ behavioral responses to fire, discussed in chapter 3, is limited. Furthermore, short-term responses do not provide insights about the vigor or sustainability of the species in an area. Studies of animal populations and communities are more…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lyon, Huff, Smith
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hof, Bevers
Description not entered.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES