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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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FireFamilyPlus (FFP) is a PC-based software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) or the Canadian Fire Danger Rating System (CFDRS). Fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Pilliod
The Wildlife Habitat Response Model (WHRM) is a web-based tool meant to assist fuel treatment planners in evaluating the effects of fuel treatment alternatives on wildlife habitats. WHRM does not provide estimates of wildlife population changes or viability. WHRM is based on…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bradshaw, Jolly, Monahan
WFAS, the Wildland Fire Assessment System, is an internet-based information system. The current implementation provides a national view of weather and fire potential, including national fire danger and weather maps and satellite-derived 'Greenness' maps. WFAS was first made…
Year: 2008
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Larkin, Hoadley
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server that allows maps of ventilation potential to be…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Major wildland/urban interface fire losses, principally residences, continue to occur. Although the problem is not new, the specific mechanisms are not well known on how structures ignite in association with wildland fires. In response to the need for a better understanding of…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
Lightning causes most wildfires in the western United States, and is a major cause of fire elsewhere in the U.S. Because most lightning occurs with significant precipitation, however, simple predictions of Lightning Activity Level (LAL) do not accurately determine fire ignition…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single source for wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire use and incident management terminology commonly used by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and its Working Teams. The NWCG has directed that…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Donaldson
NFDRSPC is a window-oriented, interactive computer program that processes observed and forecast weather with fuels data to produce NFDRS indices. Other program features include user-designed display formats, on-line context sensitive help, archiving in the standard Fort Collins…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Reinhardt
NEXUS is an Excel spreadsheet that links surface and crown fire prediction models. It is used to: estimate surface, transition, and crown fire behavior; generate site specific indices of torching and crown fire potential, build and test custom surface fuel models; evaluate…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The National Fire danger Rating System is a set of computer programs and algorithms that allow land management agencies to estimate today's or tomorrow's fire danger for a given rating area. NFDRS characterizes fire danger by evaluating the approximate upper limit of fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination Group or GeoMAC, is an internet-based mapping tool originally designed for fire managers to access online maps of current fire locations and perimeters in the conterminous 48 States and Alaska. Using a standard web browser, fire personnel…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FMAPlus(copyright) Version 3 is a state-of-the-art suite of programs for use by resource managers to inventory and estimate surface and canopy fuel loading and to predict surface and canopy fire behavior and resulting fire effects. FMAPlus(copyright) Version 3 enables you to…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fuel Characterization Classification System (FCCS) offers fire managers, air quality managers, researchers, and carbon modelers across the United States a comprehensive, nationally consistent, and durable system of fuelbed classification that captures the structural…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Tirmenstein, Reinhardt, Keane, Gangi, Mincemoyer, Lutes, Finney, Miller
First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FirePlan GIS from SIG uses advanced GIS technology to help identify cost-effective fire prevention solutions. Using the FARSITE fire model in conjunction with Arc View software, FirePlan can help land managers identify and prioritize areas for vegetative treatment. Not only will…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FireDirect is mapping software that provides GIS capabilities for agencies fighting fires in the Wildland/Urban Interface. The software allows the users to collect structure and water source information on palm computers, view structure information and photos, create and run…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
When fighting a wildfire, it is always important to make decisions based on current and expected fire behavior. That small fire could suddenly blow up (it is a fact that small fires cause more injuries than large fires). If you have a large fire on your hands, you want to know…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FireFamily Plus is a software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) or the Canadian Fire Danger Rating System (CAN). Fire occurrence data can also…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) is a disturbance effects model designed to simulate the tradeoffs between alternative land management practices over long periods of time (up to 300 years) and under diverse environmental conditions, natural fire regimes, and fuel and fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Schlobohm
The Fire Danger PocketCard is a method of communicating information on fire danger to firefighters. The objective is to lead to greater awareness of fire danger and subsequently increased firefighter safety. The PocketCard provides a description of seasonal changes in fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Finney
FARSITE has been incorporated into FlamMap and is no longer supported separately or available for download.
Farsite is a fire growth simulation model that automatically computes wildfire growth and behavior for long time periods under heterogeneous conditions of…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
CALPUFF is an advanced non-steady-state meteorological and air quality modeling system developed and distributed by Earth Tech, Inc. The model has been adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in its Guideline on Air Quality Models as the preferred model…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bevins, Heinsch, Tirmenstein, Noonan, Bartlette, Scott, Seli, Kelley, Carlton, Custer
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire behavior, fire effects, and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Allows automated data entry into Incident Command System Form ICS-209, Incident Status Summary. Transmits summaries from reporting units to regional and national databases. Improves timely and complete reporting for use in strategic decision making. Generates automated ICS-209…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Danger PocketCard is a tool based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) to help you (the firefighter) develop an awareness of the current fire situation that you are about to step into. This FDRPC is for the fire weather index for the Chugach National Forest…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES