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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bian, Jather, Kodros, Barsanti, Hatch, May, Kreidenweis, Pierce
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) has been shown to form in biomass-burning emissions in laboratory and field studies. However, there is significant variability among studies in mass enhancement, which could be due to differences in fuels, fire conditions, dilution, and/or…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wind and slope interaction effects on rate of spread, flame length and flame angle were examined in 65 fires in an open-topped tilting wind tunnel. Fuel beds consisted of vertically-oriented birch sticks and horizontally oriented aspen excelsior. A complete factorial experiment…
Year: 2017
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
This video describes how and why fire behavior fuel models were developed, and introduces how they are used today. This video is part of the World of Wildland Fire video series.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fernandez-Pello
Wildland and Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires are an important problem in many areas of the world and may have major consequences in terms of safety, air quality, and damage to buildings, infrastructure, and the ecosystem. It is expected that with climate changes the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Wei, Kirsch, Brooks, Kernohan, Magbual
The importance of cost effective fuel treatment programs has appeared consistently in federal directives (FLAME ACT, National Cohesive Strategy, U.S Department of Interior Office of Policy Analysis) as a priority. Implementing cost effective fuel treatment programs requires a…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kitzberger, Falk, Westerling, Swetnam
Predicting wildfire under future conditions is complicated by complex interrelated drivers operating across large spatial scales. Annual area burned (AAB) is a useful index of global wildfire activity. Current and antecedent seasonal climatic conditions, and the timing of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout
Doug Rideout discusses STARfire - a spatial planning and budgeting system integrating fuels, preparedness, and risk assessment guided by ROI. Scaleable from planning unit to regional to national levels.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Any material that burns. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Fuel.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire behavior is the way a fire acts - how and when fuels ignite, flames develop, and fire spreads as influenced by its interaction with fuel, weather, and topography. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Fire Behavior.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Presentation by Jennifer Barnes at the 2017 Alaska Fall Fire Science Workshop, October 10, 2017.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
de Groot
This webinar addresses the following subjects regarding CanFIRE: CFFDRS science-management integration model; Stand-level, fire behaviour-based model; Simulates physical and ecological fire effects; Small scale (fire behaviour) to large scale (fire regimes); New fuel consumption…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Melvin, Mack, Jandt
Clearing and forest thinning are increasingly seen as strategies to protect private property and infrastructure from boreal wildfires. Property sited in natural spruce-dominated forests are often considered high risk due to the intensity of fires in this fuel type when it burns…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rutherford, Schultz
Presentation by Courtney Schultz and Tait Rutherford at the 2017 Alaska Fall Fire Science Workshop, October 10, 2017.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnett
This webinar highlights results from a study on the effects of fuel treatments and previously burned areas on subsequent fire management costs. Presenter Kevin Barnett and his colleagues, Helen Naughton, Sean Parks, and Carol Miller, built models explaining variation in daily…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Havlina, Mehlman, Silvertand
This webinar will walk the audience through the Vegetation Management Practices learning series, produced by the Bureau of Land Management and The Nature Conservancy. This learning series responds to action item #5 within the fuels section of the Integrated Rangeland Fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Coen, Schroeder
Large wildland fires are complex, dynamic phenomena that can encounter a wide range of fuels, terrain, and weather during a single event. They can produce intense firewhirls that snap mature trees and generate blowups. They can send 300-foot (100-m) bursts of flame shooting…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goodrick, Brown, Jolly
In a pair of review papers, Potter (2012a, 2012b) summarized the significant fire weather research findings over about the past hundred years. Our scientific understanding of wildland fire-atmosphere interactions has evolved: from simple correlations supporting the notion that…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hockenberry
A Red Flag Warning (RFW) is the fundamental fire-weather-warning product of the National Weather Service. Various publications and online meeting notes show that RFWs originated in the late 1950s to early 1960s. Early sources defined the RFW as an indication of weather expected…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall, Brunson
Land managers use various methods to reduce fuel levels. The two most common fuel treatment methods include forest thinning and prescribed fire. The pace of implementing such fuel treatments has increased over the last several decades. Scientific studies of fuel treatments…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Sullivan
Generalised statements about the state of fire science are often used to provide a simplified context for new work. This paper explores the validity of five frequently repeated statements regarding empirical and physical models for predicting wildland fire behaviour. For…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beverly
In black spruce forests characterised by high-intensity crown fires, early detection and containment of fires while they are small is crucial for averting progression to fire intensities that exceed suppression capabilities. Fire behaviour conditions encountered during initial…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Hoover
The carbon reports in the Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) provide two alternate approaches to carbon estimates for live trees (Rebain 2010). These are (1) the FFE biomass algorithms, which are volume- based biomass equations, and (2) the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Wells, Pimont, Jolly, Cohn, Linn, Mell, Hoffman
With rapid changes in forest health and an increasing presence of fire affecting many landscapes, fuel treatments are considered essential in efforts to potentially mitigate catastrophic fires, restore ecosystems and increase ecosystem resilience. Understanding fuel treatment…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a forest dynamics modeling system with geographic variants covering forested areas of the contiguous United States. As a direct descendant of the Prognosis model of the 1970/80s, FVS has seen continuous development and use for over 40…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bastian
This webinar, led by LANDFIRE Business Lead Henry Bastian, will cover more than a decade old program (LANDFIRE) at producing and updating land cover data products across all 50 United States and insular areas. Although many have thought of LANDFIRE as only a wildland fire data…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES