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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Potter, Larkin, Nikolov
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duffy
The boreal forest covers 12 million km2 of the northern hemisphere and contains roughly 40% of the world's reactive soil carbon. The Northern high latitudes have experienced significant warming over the past century and there is a pressing need to characterize the response of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nikolov, Teixeira, Snook, Zeller, Fajardo
Accurate forecasting of regional weather is an important aspect of modern fire and smoke management. Fire weather impacts prescribed burn decisions, allocation of firefighting resources, and fire-fighters safety. Regional weather forecasts are currently produced by 3-D numerical…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Holsinger
This paper describes WXFIRE, a computer program that computes spatially explicit climate-based, biophysical variables at any landscape scale or resolution using daily weather data, topography, and soils parameters, and a diverse set of integrated environmental functions. WXFIRE…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Riordan, Garwood
This document benchmarks the results of a three year NASA sponsored research project (2003-6) on developing and demonstrating techniques for using single channel C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery for assessing the potential for wildfire in boreal Alaska.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zeller, Mathewson, Nikolov
Reliable forecasting of regional weather and wind flow patterns is critical for effective fighting of wildland fires and the operational management of prescribed burns. Accurate prediction of future wind fields is essential for predicting fire behavior; smoke dispersion, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Bradshaw, Butler
The following constitutes a proposal submitted in response to JFSP RFP 2003-2 Task-i. One major source of uncertainty in fire behavior predictions is spatial variation in the wind fields used in the fire models. Mountainsides, valleys, ridges, and the fire itself, influence both…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Haase, Hardy, Regelbrugge, Reinhardt, Sackett, Sandberg, Sutherland, Vihnanek, Wade, Wright
The primary objective of the fuel consumption project is: Improve existing models to better predict fuel consumption during the smoldering phase of wildland fires; develop new fuel consumption models for shrubland hardwood, and boreal forest fuel types; implement modified and…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Gabbert, Mangan
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) will sponsor a conference to address fuels management and how to measure success. IAWF has worked with the Interagency Fule Committee on initial planning. There is general recognition of the need for such a conference. We…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Prichard, Ottmar, Anderson
Consume is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption, emissions, and heat release from the burning of logged units, piled slash, and natural…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Vihnanek, Sandberg
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team has completed Consume version 3.0 (http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/products/consume.html). This system is the principle science delivery product for the Joint Fire Science Program-funded project entitled: 'Modification and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Butler
Fuels management programs are designed to reduce risks to communities and to improve and maintain ecosystem health. The International Association of Wildland Fire initiated the 1st Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference to address development, implementation, and evaluation of these…
Year: 2006
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
Chuvieco, Riaño, Danson, Martin
Burn severity is related to fire intensity and fire duration and provides a quantitative measure related to fire impact and biomass consumption. Traditional field-based methods to estimate burn severity are time consuming, labor intensive, and normally limited in spatial extent…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cary, Keane, Gardner, Lavorel, Flannigan, Davies, Li, Lenihan, Rupp, Mouillot
The purpose of this study was to compare the sensitivity of modelled area burned to environmental factors across a range of independently-developed landscape-fire-succession models. The sensitivity of area burned to variation in four factors, namely terrain (flat, undulating and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Damoah, Spichtinger, Servranckx, Fromm, Eloranta, Razenkov, James, Shulski, Forster, Stohl
Summer 2004 saw severe forest fires in Alaska and the Yukon Territory that were mostly triggered by lightning strikes. The area burned (>2.7 x 10^6 ha) in the year 2004 was the highest on record to date in Alaska. Pollutant emissions from the fires lead to violation of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES