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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schwartz, Hermann
We present evidence that fire suppression may have contributed to the fungal decline of torreya (Torreya taxifolia). During the 1950's torreya suffered a catastrophic die-back. The torreya die-back was probably caused by needle pathogens induced through environmental stress.…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lutes
FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - 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…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balch, Nagy, Archibald, Bowman, Moritz, Roos, Scott, Williamson
Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baker, Woody, Tonnesen, Hutzell, Pye, Beaver, Pouliot, Pierce
Two specific fires from 2011 are tracked for local to regional scale contribution to ozone (O3) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) using a freely available regulatory modeling system that includes the BlueSky wildland fire emissions tool, Spare Matrix Operator Kernel Emissions…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barn, Elliott, Allen, Kosatsky, Rideout, Henderson
Landscape fires can produce large quantities of smoke that degrade air quality in both remote and urban communities. Smoke from these fires is a complex mixture of fine particulate matter and gases, exposure to which is associated with increased respiratory and cardiovascular…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yuchi, Yao, Mclean, Stull, Paviovic, Davignon, Moran, Henderson
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) generated by forest fires has been associated with a wide range of adverse health outcomes, including exacerbation of respiratory diseases and increased risk of mortality. Due to the unpredictable nature of forest fires, it is challenging for…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liu, Mickley, Sulprizio, Dominici, Yue, Ebisu, Anderson, Khan, Bravo, Bell
Wildfire can impose a direct impact on human health under climate change. While the potential impacts of climate change on wildfires and resulting air pollution have been studied, it is not known who will be most affected by the growing threat of wildfires. Identifying…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yao, Eyamie, Henderson
Exposure to forest fire smoke (FFS) is associated with multiple adverse health effects, mostly respiratory. Findings for cardiovascular effects have been inconsistent, possibly related to the limitations of conventional methods to assess FFS exposure. In previous work, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tohidi, Kaye
Highly buoyant plumes, such as wildfire plumes, in low to moderate wind speeds have initial trajectories that are steeper than many industrial waste plumes. They will rise further into the atmosphere before bending significantly. In such cases the plume's trajectory will be…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Minimum Acceptable Visibility (MAV) table was originally provided by the California Highway Patrol in response to an inquiry relative to acceptable highway visibility reduction caused by smoke. The table was included in chapter two of the 1991 edition of the National Park…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kourtz, Todd
Lightning causes one third of the 9000 wildfires that occur in Canada. Annually, these lightning-caused fires account for 90% of the area burned and cost Canadians at least 150 million dollars in suppression costs and values destroyed. Unlike the fires caused by human negligence…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Reinhardt
Equations for predicting duff and large woody fuel (7.6+ cm) consumption are summarized. Dependent variables are duff depth reduction, percentage duff depth reduction, percentage mineral soil, large fuel diameter reduction, and percentage large fuel reduction. Opportunities to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
A prescribed fire was ignited near Chapleau, western Ontario, Canada, on the afternoon of August 10, 1989. The fire, covering approximately 400 ha, burned vigorously over a period of 3 hours, from 1400 to 1700 EDT, generating a plume cloud structure including a portion…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
After the serious smoke inversion conditions on the northern California and southern Oregon fires of 1987 and the Greater Yellowstone Area fires of 1988, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) hosted a conference - 'The Effect of Forest Fire Smoke on Firefighters'-in…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wertz
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
This paper draws on comments from 89 reporters who covered the fires, on comments from 146 of their new sources, and on evaluations of network television coverage by four groups of wildfire experts. The research also incorporates a content analysis of stories about the fires…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davi
Computers are rapidly expanding into the urban fire safety area. This paper presents some social implications caused by the use of computers for fire safety databases, arson prediction programs, and fire simulation programs. In regards to the new technological advances this…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White, Fenton
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (lightning and unplanned man)…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Tankersley
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radke, Hegg, Hobbs, Nance, Lyons, Laursen, Weiss, Riggan, Ward
n this chapter we describe the results of airborne studies of smokes from 17 biomass fuel fires, including 14 prescribed fires and 3 wildfires, burned primarily in the temperate zone of North America between 34° and 49°N latitude. The prescribed fires were in forested lands…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olbu, Susott, Ward
Due to the increasing concern about global climate change and the realization that biomass fires are a significant source of CO2, CH4, and other greenhouse gases, there is a need to quantify the emissions of these gases from biomass fires. The emissions from a wide variety of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins, Turn, Williams, Chang, Raabe, Paskind, Teague
Agricultural practices and land use modification were estimated to produce 14% and 9%, respectively, of the total greenhouse gas emissions contributing to global warming in the decade preceding 1990 (Marshall, 1989). Carbon release rates from tropical forest conversion have been…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
A variety of potent air toxins are in the smoke produced by burning forest and range biomass. Preliminary data on firefighter exposures to carbon monoxide and formaldehyde at four prescribed burns of Western United States natural fuels are presented. Formaldehyde may be…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward, Hardy
Biomass burning is a major source of emissions to the atmosphere. Some of these emissions may change global climate. This paper uses combustion efficiency as an independent variable for predicting emission factors for, among others, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES