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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McRae, Lynham, Frech
The alarming loss of forested areas containing red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) and eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) in eastern Canada is a situation that must be addressed promptly by changing management approaches. Since the ecological role of fire in the regeneration and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Angelstam
Summary (p.499-500) ... 'Fire is an important natural and anthropogenic factor in the dynamics of the boreal forest system. The ecological and environmental impacts of boreal fires depend on fire weather, fuel availability, fire behavior and history of stand development (…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The National Weather Service Fire Weather Program provides weather forecasting and meteorological support services to state and federal wildland fire management agencies. An Intergovernmental Fire Weather User's Summit, sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The National Weather Service Fire Weather Program provides weather forecasting and meteorological support services to state and federal wildland fire management agencies. An Intergovernmental Fire Weather User's Summit, sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Smith, Reifsnyder
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Meisner, Fujioka
The United States Historical Climatology Network (HCN) database was compiled by the National Climatic Data Center in response to a compelling interest in climate change. The database contains monthly temperature and precipitation data for approxiamtely 1200 stations in the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCutchan, Chow
A 30-day fire weather forecast system predicts the monthly mean afternoon temperature, dew point, and wind speed at the 127 National Weather Service (NWS) stations across the United States. The forecast afternoon monthly mean temperature and dew point are then used to calculate…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Whistler
This paper describes a system for preparing monthly outlooks for fire-weather elements in the United States. The system is based on multiple regression equations that specify monthly mean anomalies of precipitation, temperature, dewpoint, and wind speed from concurrent anomalies…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kierstead, Dickison, DeMille
Rainfall is one of the most important of the weather parameters on which fire-danger calculations are based. Therefore, a fire weather network which has been optimally designed for measurement of daily rainfall will be adequate for other input parameters as well. Spatial…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Fast
A two-dimensional, coupled, earth-atmospheric model has been used to simulate mean and turbulent atmospheric conditions near lines of extreme surface heating. Prognostic equations are used to solve for the horizontal and vertical wind components, potential temperature, and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Graham
The National Weather Service (NWS) has provided on-site forecasting services during wildland fire incidents for about 60 years. The basic design of mobile fire weather support units evolved slowly until recently. Prior to the mid 1980's, a vehicle-based support unit was used.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak
Representative soundings from 74 major wildland fires in the United States were analyzed to determine if characteristic temperature, moisture, and wind patterns were discernable prior to the occurrence of extreme fire behavior. In a previous study, OO UTC soundings were used to…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roads, Ueyoshi, Alpert, Fujioka
Recently, Fosberg and Fujioka (1987) emphasized the potential importance that accurate long-range weather forecasts would have on national and regional land and fire management. In particular, they described a national research plan to integrate present day medium/long-range…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Canadian/United States cooperative mass fire behavior and atmospheric environmental impact study
Over the past four years scientists have cooperatively monitored fire behavior and smoke chemistry, on a number of large prescribed fires in the Province of Ontario. Primary cooperating agencies include Forestry Canada, the United States Forest Service, the National Aeronautics…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radke, Ward
Planning prescribed fires for optimal periods which results in emissions reduction is an extremely useful air quality management technique. New information suggests that one more useful tool in smoke management may involve using the capacity of the atmosphere to remove smoke…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
A one-dimensional plume model was developed for use by fire-weather forecasters and others who want a small computer platform tool for vertical parcel method motions with respect to an ambient real sounding. The model includes cloud microphysics parameterizations for cloud water…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
Electric field measurements, combined with lightning location data, demonstrate that the plume clouds from large fires can be charged and can generate lightning discharges. The results of measurements made on a prescribed burn show that the charge distribution is a positive…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Banta, Olivier, Holloway
The Doppler lidar of NOAA/ERL's Wave Propagation Laboratory (WPL) observed a prescribed forest fire that was ignited in the township of Battersby, Ontario, Canada, on 12 August 1988. During the first hour of the fire the lidar saw the smoke column rise nearly straight up to a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Xanthopoulos, Wakimoto
The objective of the study was the development of an empirical model to predict when a surface fire may ignite the forest crown and become a crown fire. Through an extensive literature review candidate variables for inclusion in the model were identified. The importance of these…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richards
This paper shows how equations that simulate fire front growth for constant slope and spatially independent and velocity can be generalized to describe fire front growth for spatially and temporally varying fuel, topography and wind velocity. The equations are a set of first…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer
Firebrands spread fire efficiently, but their occurrence is difficult to understand and predict. It is obvious that potential firebrands form and burn-up continuously in any wildland fire, just as it is apparent that there is upward motion above a fire. But, firebrands do not…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Todd, Ogilvie
The concepts of a Prescribed Fire Ignition Expert System (PFIES) are discussed. The system will be designed to be used in planning any prescribed burn that utilizes the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in setting the weather prescription. The idea for an expert system…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin, Finney, Molina, Sapsis, Stephens, Scott, Weise
Dimensional analysis has potential to help explain and predict physical phenomena, but has been used very little in studies of wildland fire behavior. By combining variables into dimensionless groups, the number of variables to be handled and the experiments to be run is greatly…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lanoville, Mallinson
Fire seasons in the lower Mackenzie River Valley, located in the northwestern portion of the Nortwest Territories, are typically of short duration with intermittent periods of intense drying of the forest fuels under continuous or near-continuous sunlight. Disturbances moving…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kalabokidis, Hay, Hussin
Spatial data analysis and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology offer an opportunity to improve upon spatially unresolved fire behavior models (e.g., BEHAVE) The feasibility of applying the fire spread module of BEHAVE in a spatially resolved manner was determined for a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS