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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander, Cruz
From the text ... 'Wind-driven surface and crown fires in conifer forests typically adopt a roughly elliptical shape.Area burned is proportional to the rate of spread increase (following the transition to crowning) to the power of 2.'
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chen, Goodwin, Prestemon
In the U.S. forest products industry, wildfire is one of the leading causes of damage and economic losses. While individual wildfire behavior is well studied, new literature is emerging on broad-scale (e.g., county-level) wildfire risks. Our paper studies wildfire risks using…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goeken
From the text ... 'Destruction of forest property by federal firefighters could entitle owner to just compensation.' Published by Forest Landowners Association. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
[Preface to this full issue of Fire Management Today] Mass media images of raging crown fires have affected how many people view their wildlands. Flames surge and leap dozens and even hundreds of feet into the air; planes zoom above the flames releasing streams of brightly…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander
Fire behaviour associated with the stand structure of a particular pine plantation is the result of multiple interactions between climate and weather conditions, physical characteristics of the fuel complex, the micrometeorological environment (i.e., wind, fuel moisture and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Vaillant, Peterson
This paper provides a brief overview and progress report of the U.S. Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) sponsored project "Crown Fire Behavior Characteristics and Prediction in Conifer Forests: A State-of-Knowledge Synthesis" (JFSP 09-S-03-1).
In addition to summarizing the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thomas
The preparation of wildland fire behavior studies represents both an opportunity and a challenge to the wildland fire community in the future. While the continuance of basic research into fire fundamentals is essential to gaining a complete understanding of the physical…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander
This paper highlights the results obtained from a comprehensive survey recently published by the authors on the error statistics associated with studies that have used independent data derived from field observations of wildfires, prescribed fires and experimental fires to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dr. Matt Nolan is a Research Associate Professor at UAF's Institute of Northern Engineering with degrees in geophysics and arctic and mechanical engineering. He has been pioneering new high-tech uses of an old tool-the aerial photo. With new advances in computer processing and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Hearing about climate-driven plant community changes takes on new meaning when they name names of the passengers who might not be boarding the flight to the future. A recent paper by Hollingsworth et al. (2013) does just that, analyzing fire severity and post-fire physical…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 2011
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Lasko, Kaufmann
Significant changes occurring in the wildland fire environment of the United States are generatinguncharacteristic shifts in the complexity, behavior, extent, and effects of wildfires. Increases in wildfire numbers, temporal and spatial scales, and ecological, social, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morvan
The subject of this article concerns the unsteady effects (fire intensity, wind) upon the propagation and, more generally, the behavior of surface fires in open fields. The study focused on two sources of unsteadiness: the first one resulting from the regime of propagation (wind…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trainor
A summary of a JSFP survey presented by Sarah Trainor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
This discussion included a project update including a basic overview, preliminary results on the efffects of fuel treatments on permafrost and fuel composition, the modeling framework, and products. They hope to simulate wildfire in response to changing fire management options.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alden
The benefits and drawbacks of overwintering weather stations continues to be a topic of interest in the fire management community. This presentation looks at specific weather stations and how overwintering effects the Drought Code.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Ziel
What factors may influence new fires burning into or being slowed by previous fire scars? How long can we consider fire scars a fuel barrier? More and more area in Alaska seems to be burning in close succession, or "repeat burns."
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne, Ziel
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
The Funny River Fire (AK-KKS-403140) was ignited by humans on May 19, 2014, and burned almost 200,000 acres on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, by early June. Most of the fire was within the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, but it threatened adjacent communities. Four recreational…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
A brief refresher of CFFDRS from the 3-day Summit, held October 28-30 in Fairbanks.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rodriguez
One of the factors that shapes the Alaskan Boreal forest is the frequency in which previously burned areas re-burn, also known as the fire return interval. The Alaskan fire regime itself is subject to various climate influences one of which is temperature. Using geographic…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pastick, Jorgenson, Wylie, Minsley, Ji, Walvoord, Smith, Abraham, Rose
Permafrost has a significant impact on high latitude ecosystems and is spatially heterogeneous. However, only generalized maps of permafrost extent are available. Due to its impacts on carbon pools, subsurface hydrology, lake water levels, vegetation communities, and surface…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toukiloglou, Gitas, Katagis
The recognition and understanding of long-term fire-related processes and patterns, such as the possible connection between the increased frequency of wildfires and global warming, requires the study of historical data records. In this study, a methodology was proposed for the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kettridge, Humphrey, Smith, Lukenbach, Devito, Petrone, Waddington
Water repellency alters soil hydrology after periods of wildfire, potentially modifying the ecosystem recovery to such disturbance. Despite this potential importance, the extent and severity of water repellency within burned peatlands and its importance in regulating peatland…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS