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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Brotak
From the text ... 'Knowledge of fire behavior is critical for those who control wildfires. Fire managers must know spread rates and intensity--not just to eventually contain and extinguish the fire but also to keep their fire control personnel safe. Managers realize that weather…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Werth, Ochoa
From the text ... 'The Haines Index is the first attempt to construct a formal fire-weather index based upon features of the lower atmosphere.Does it work?... This index uses the environmental lapse rate (temperature difference) within a layer of air coupled with its moisture…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lefort, Gauthier, Bergeron
The fire history of two adjacent regions of the boreal forest, one characterized by logging (Ontario -- 510,000 ha) and the other by small scale agricultural activities (Quebec -- 140,000 ha), was studied before and after these regions were opened up to settlement in 1916. From…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schuster, Krebs
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hayasaka, Lynch
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Sandberg
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson, Ruthford, Rorig, Sandberg
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martinson, Omi
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln, Rideout
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Menakis, Cohen, Bradshaw
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lepofsky, Heyerdahl, Lertzman, Schaepe, Mierendorf
The recent encroachment of woody species threatening many western North American meadows has been attributed to diverse factors. We used a suite of methods in Chittenden Meadow, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, to identify the human, ecological, and physical factors…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de Groot, Bothwell, Carlsson, Logan
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson, Elkie
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall, Brown, Bradshaw, Jolly, Nemani
Currently, the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) produces a daily Energy Release Component (ERC) index. The ERC index is directly related to the total available energy (BTUs) per unit area (in square feet) within the flaming front at the head of a fire. It essentially…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Otway
The Drought Code (DC), a component of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI), is an index of the amount of moisture in the deep forest floor. Its slow response time requires that allowances must be made for fall conditions and the overwinter snow fall in determining spring…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall, Brown
There are several monthly precipitation and drought indices and variants available in the U.S. such as the Palmer Drought Severity Index and the Standardized Precipitation Index. Each one has been designed for specific drought related questions, and most of them are utilized in…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Keane, Menakis, Zhu, Hann, Shlisky
LANDFIRE is an interagency effort to develop a comprehensive suite of standardized, multi-scale spatial data layers and software needed to support implementation of the National Fire Plan, Cohesive Strategy, and the President's Healthy Forest Initiative across the United States…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garfin, Wordell, Brown, Ochoa, Morehouse
Millions of acres are burned each year by wildland fires, in spite of much effort going into fuel treatments, prevention, and fire suppression. An array of effective decision-support products, tools, and processes is needed to anticipate regional resource needs, improve resource…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roads, Chen, Fujioka, Burgan
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) has been making routine experimental, near real-time weekly to seasonal fire danger forecasts for the past 5 years. Images from these forecasts are regularly shown on the worldwide web (WWW) site (http://ecpc.ucsd.edu/)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mohrle, Hall, Brown
In parts of the southwestern U.S., the commencement of the Southwest Monsoon initiates a decrease in wildland fire occurrence. Corresponding changes in meteorological elements such as relative humidity and dew point are some of the mitigating factors. For example, one commonly…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kolden, Brown
Prescribed fire is generally considered a useful tool in ecosystem restoration and hazardous fuels reduction. There are many variables associated with the decision process and level of control managers can assert over prescribed burning (e.g., risk, safety, contingency,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adkins, O'Neill, Rorig, Ferguson, Krull, Hoadley
Case study analyses of the BlueSky smoke modeling framework help identify the input values or modeling components that require improvement. BlueSky is a smoke forecasting system that combines burn information with models of consumption, emissions, meteorology, and dispersion to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS