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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bartlein, Anderson, Anderson, Edwards, Mock, Thompson, Webb, Webb, Whitlock
Maps of upper-level and surface winds and of surface temperature and precipitation illustrate the results of a sequence of global paleoclimatic simulations spanning the past 21,000 yr for North America. We review (a) the large-scale features of circulation, temperature, and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Whittle, Duchesne, Needham
The soil seed bank (seed and vegetative propagules) of a jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) ecosystem was investigated using direct propagule emergence from soil cores in greenhouse experiments, and visual examination of rhizome/rooting systems in situ. Of the 985 emergents…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schneller, Frandsen
A new method of measuring heat flux from smoldering combustion is introduced. Currently available methods lack the accuracy of measuring the true heat flux. This is because of either the unavailability of required physical properties of the transporting medium (Like time…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This policy statement has been prepared in response to plans by some Federal, tribal and State wildland owners/managers to significantly increase the use of wildland and prescribed fires to achieve resource benefits in the wildlands. Many wildland ecosystems are considered to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg
The model was developed from numerical and analytical solutions of the diffusion forms of the mass continuity equation and the first law of thermodynamics. Analytical solutions provided a functional framework to evaluate nonlinear interactions obtained in the numerical solutions…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George
Several fire retardants in current use were dropped from the Canadair CL-215 to determine drop height effects and for evaluation of the tank and gating system. This was accomplished through the quantification and analysis of the characteristics of the ground distribution…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini
Describes an algorithm for separating fuel depth data into distinctive groups of measurements. The algorithm is justified heuristically, through its mathematical similarity to the "tuner" of a radio receiver. Test data generated artificially were used to maximize the sensitivity…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This conference provided an arena for identifying common key issues that are shaping wildland fire research. Commonly identified desired outcomes include: research, integrated across disciplines, and management form partnerships; communication between management and research is…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Otto
A report is hereby given to the results of an originally seemingly inconspicuous burn in a simple simulated urban street arrangement which is inductive to probable gross vortex formation. These results reveal in vivid details a series of most unusual and exciting events of gross…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sadovnik, Manasson, Chapman, Mino, Kiseliov
Lack of reliable fire warning and detection systems for urban/wildland interface, large area industrial facilities and transportation systems result each year in a loss of millions of dollars worth of property; it also endangers lives. Typical optical fire detection sensor do…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickmann, Rollinger
The exclusion of fire from ecosystems to which it was a frequent visitor has produced profound alterations in historic ecological conditions; therefore, fire must be an integral component of ecosystem management. That was the overwhelming message conveyed by speakers at the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arno
The fire ecology of Scandinavian forests and its management implications have many parallels to forests of the American West. As in the United States, the policy of fire exclusion has yielded to a broader understanding of fire ecology, and both silviculture and prescribed fire…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Countryman
Three ingredients are essential for a wildland fire to start and to burn. First, there must be burnable fuel available. Then enough heat must be applied to the fuel to raise its temperature to the ignition point. And finally, there must be enough air to supply oxygen needed to…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boyd
Literature review of 40 articles related to research in landscape and woodland perceptions, aesthetics and experience.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Morton, Leslie
Earlier models of fire plumes based on simple entrainment laws and neglecting dynamic pressure have failed to produce the relatively shallow inflow over the fire perimeter known as fire wind. This inflow is of prime importance in fire modelling as it normally provides much of…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walsh
Sections 111 and 112 of the Clean Air Act relative to the control of particulates are evaluated. Section 111 provides the promulgation of standards for hazardous pollutants which reflect the best systems of emission reduction. Section 112 defines national emission standards for…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burchard
The advancement of technology relating to particulate emission is pointed out as a significant aspect of this nation's air pollution control efforts. Important factors include the ability of particulates: to cause poor visibility, to constitute a health hazard, to act as…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Chase, Bradshaw
This CD-ROM contains GIF images of four vegetation greenness themes derived from Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data for the years 1989 through 1998 and three fire danger themes for 1996 and 1998. CD Only - Not available online.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leenhouts
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
ANNOTATION: This report examines the domestic and international markets for biopower. Domestic and foreign markets present fundamentally different challenges to private power developers. The domestic challenge lies in finding economically viable opportunities for biopower.…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dixon
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a software tool available to forest managers to evaluate stand density management alternatives. FVS is widely used in the United States for this and other purposes. Use of FVS in Canada is limited because metric based variants calibrated…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sohngen, Mendelsohn, Neilson
This paper compares transient carbon fluxes to and from forests during climatic change in a pure natural model of ecosystem adjustment and also in a model that captures the human response to these changes. Both models incorporate forest dieback and regeneration, forest…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shriner, Street, Ball, D'Amours, Duncan, Kaiser, Maarouf, Mortsch, Mulholland, Neilson, Patz, Scheraga, Titus, Vaughan, Weltz
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Prentice, Smith, Kittel, Viner
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Drapek
Feedback interactions between terrestrial vegetation and climate could alter predictions of the responses of both systems to a doubling of atmospheric CO2. Most previous analysis of biosphere responses to global warming have used output from equilibrium simulations of current…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES