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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Calkin, Finney, Ager, Thompson, Gebert
In this paper we review progress towards the implementation of a risk management framework for US federal wildland fire policy and operations. We first describe new developments in wildfire simulation technology that catalyzed the development of risk-based decision support…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masarie
Resource allocation for wildland fire suppression problems, referred to here as Fire-S problems, have been studied for over a century. Not only have the many variants of the base Fire-S problem made it such a durable one to study, but advances in suppression technology and our…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Thompson, Finney, Hyde
Development of appropriate management strategies for escaped wildland fires is complex. Fire managers need the ability to identify, in real time, the likelihood that wildfire will affect valuable developed and natural resources (e.g., private structures, public infrastructure,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Fire Spread Probability Simulator (FSPro) is a geospatial probabilistic model that predicts fire growth, and is designed to support long-term decision-making (more than 5 days). FSPro calculates two-dimensional fire growth and displays the probability that fire will visit…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Grenfell, McHugh, Seli, Trethewey, Stratton, Brittain
An ensemble simulation system that accounts for uncertainty in long-range weather conditions and two-dimensional wildland fire spread is described. Fuel moisture is expressed based on the energy release component, a US fire danger rating index, and its variation throughout the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Martin, Smail, Napoli, Bastian, Fay
Participants at the workshop represented experts from state, local and federal agencies, tribal organizations, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and private contractors with knowledge of vegetation types and their relationships to fuels and fire behavior. Attendees provided…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guide for standardized data entry into WFDSS for fires in Alaska.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These protocols were developed in order to have a statewide standard for requesting fire behavior analyses on wildland fires in Alaska and a process for prioritization of the requests. It is not intended to give direction on how to develop inputs or to run the models.…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holden, Jolly
Fire danger rating systems commonly ignore fine scale, topographically-induced weather variations. These variations will likely create heterogeneous, landscape-scale fire danger conditions that have never been examined in detail. We modeled the evolution of fuel moistures and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zinck, Pascual, Grimm
Ecosystems driven by wildfire regimes are characterized by fire size distributions resembling power laws. Existing models produce power laws, but their predicted exponents are too high and fail to capture the exponent's variation with geographic region. Here we present a minimal…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reich, Frelich, Voldseth, Bakken, Adair
Understanding the relationship between species diversity and productivity is central to linking compositional and functional aspects of terrestrial ecosystems, and little is known about such issues in boreal forests. We used structural equation modelling (SEM) to test several…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beck, Goetz
To assess ongoing changes in high latitude vegetation productivity we compared spatiotemporal patterns in remotely sensed vegetation productivity in the tundra and boreal zones of North America and Eurasia. We compared the long-term GIMMS (Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar, Butler
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinning) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, de Groot, Jenkins, Rogers, Alvarado, Amiro, de Jong, Goetz, Hoy, Hyer, Keane, Law, McKenzie, McNulty, Ottmar, Perez-Salicrup, Randerson, Robertson, Turetsky
Research activities focused on estimating the direct emissions of carbon from wildland fires across North America are reviewed as part of the North American Carbon Program disturbance synthesis. A comparison of methods to estimate the loss of carbon from the terrestrial…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werth, Potter, Clements, Finney, Goodrick, Alexander, Cruz, Forthofer, McAllister
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group definition of extreme fire behavior (EFB) indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hessl
Fire is a global process affecting both the biosphere and the atmosphere. As a result, measuring rates of change in wildland fire and understanding the mechanisms responsible for such changes are important research goals. A large body of modeling studies projects increases in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tirmenstein, Long
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Managing uncertainty in climate-driven ecological models to information adaptation to climate change
The impacts of climate change on forest ecosystems are likely to require changes in forest planning and natural resource management. Changes in tree growth, disturbance extent and intensity, and eventually species distributions are expected. In natural resource management and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kennedy, Ford
Scientists frequently use computer-simulation models to help solve complex biological problems. Typically, such models are highly integrated, they produce multiple outputs, and standard methods of model analysis are ill suited for evaluating them. We show how multicriteria…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Prestemon, Gebert
Controlling wildfire suppression expenditures has become a major public policy concern in the United States. However, most policy remedies have focused on the biophysical determinants of suppression costs: fuel loads and weather, for example. We show that two non-biophysical…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Ager, Thompson, Finney, Lee, Quigley, McHugh, Riley, Gilbertson-Day
The FLAME Act of 2009 requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the U.S. Department of Interior to submit to Congress a Cohesive Wildfire Management Strategy. In this report, we explore the general science available for a risk-based approach to fire and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar
Fuelbeds vary widely in their physical attributes, potential fire behavior, and fire effects. As models that predict fire behavior, fire effects, and carbon cycling become more sophisticated and widely used, there is an increasing need to accurately quantify and classify the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shuman, Shugart, O'Halloran
The Northern Hemisphere's boreal forests, particularly the Siberian boreal forest, may have a strong effect on Earth's climate through changes in dominant vegetation and associated regional surface albedo. We show that warmer climate will likely convert Siberia's deciduous larch…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton, Price, Gajewski
This study examines the importance of climate variability when simulating forest succession using a process-based model of stand development. The FORSKA-2V forest gap model, originally developed for forcing with monthly mean climate data, was modified to accept daily weather…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Mell, McCauley
Crown fire endangers fire fighters and can have severe ecological consequences. Prediction of fire behavior in tree crowns is essential to informed decisions in fire management. Current methods used in fire management do not address variability in crown fuels. New mechanistic…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES