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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Berg, Henry, De Volder
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Han, Viau, Anctil
Wildfires are important in regions dominated by forest, such as found in large parts of Canada. The principal objective of this study was to provide homogeneously distributed indices for the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The FWI was calculated using four sets of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chapin, Rupp, Starfield, DeWilde, Zavaleta, Fresco, Henkelman, McGuire
The development of policies that promote ecological, economic, and cultural sustainability requires collaboration between natural and social scientists. We present a modeling approach to facilitate this communication and illustrate its application to studies of wildfire in the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nelson
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Silversides
'Although the cup anemometer, widely used in forest meteorology, has certain faults (Middleton and Spilhaus, 1953: `Meteorological Instruments', Univ. of Toronto Press), its basic properties such as simplicity of design, ease of fabrication, ruggedness, good sensitivity and…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder
At the request of the World Meteorological Organization, a hierarchical system for rating forest fire danger was developed. The system uses generally available meteorological measurements to evaluate the flammability of wildland fuels anywhere in the world. The basic framework…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baughman, Fuquay, Mielke
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davidson, Williamson, Parkins
Much research attention regarding climate change has been focused on the macrophysical and, to a lesser extent, the macrosocial features of this phenomenon. An important step in mitigation and adaptation will be to examine the ways that climate change risks manifest themselves…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Kaufman, Yoneji, Nelson, Shemesh, Huang, Tian, Bond, Clegg, Brown
High-resolution analyses of lake sediment from southwestern Alaska reveal cyclic variations in climate and ecosystems during the Holocene. These variations occurred with periodicities similar to those of solar activity and appear to be coherent with time series of the cosmogenic…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Shemesh
Despite growing evidence for environmental oscillations during the last glacial-interglacial transition from high latitude, terrestrial sites of the North Pacific rim, oxygen-isotopic records of these oscillations remain sparse. The lack of data is due partially to the paucity…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hays, Imbrie, Shackleton
1) Three indices of global climate have been monitored in the record of the past 450,000 years in Southern Hemisphere ocean-floor sediments. 2) Over the frequency range 10-4 to 10-5 cycle per year, climatic variance of these records is concentrated in three discrete spectral…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Edwards, Brubaker
Since the first comprehensive summary (Heusser, 1965), tremendous strides have been made in defining the late Quaternary paleoenvironmental history of Alaska. The number of paleoecological records has increased greatly (Fig. 1, Table 1), and major shifts have occurred in…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beukema, Reinhardt, Greenough, Robinson, Kurz
The Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator is a model that simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behavior over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models are used to represent forest stand development (the Forest…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sun, Jenkins
Since the 1950s, extensive research has been conducted to investigate the relationship between near-surface atmospheric conditions and large wildfire growth and occurrence. Observational studies have demonstrated that near-surface dryness (e-g., Fahnestock 1965) and atmospheric…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Turner, Collins, Lugo, Magnuson, Rupp, Swanson
Long-term ecological research is particularly valuable for understanding disturbance dynamics over long time periods and placing those dynamics in a regional context.We highlighted three case studies from Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network sites that have contributed…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Neilson
Chapter 4 of the book, Changing precipitation regimes and terrestrial ecosystems: a North American perspective.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marland, Pielke, Apps, Avissar, Betts, Davis, Frumhoff, Jackson, Joyce, Kauppi, Katzenberger, MacDicken, Neilson, Niles, Niyogi, Norby, Pena, Sampson, Xue
Strategies to mitigate anthropogenic climate change recognize that carbon sequestration in the terrestrial biosphere can reduce the build-up of carbon dioxide in the Earth?s atmosphere. However, climate mitigation policies do not generally incorporate the effects of these…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Juday, Barber, Rupp, Zasada, Wilmking
This volume (Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Sites), in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series would present the work that has been done and the understanding and database that have been developed by work on climate…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson
Black spruce (Picea mariana) is the dominant conifer in the North American boreal forest and the most widespread species in the taiga of Alaska and Canada. Spruce colonized the arctic environment at least 10,000 years ago and still might be expanding to their climatic limits of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fritts
[Description from Elsevier website] Tree Rings and Climate deals with the principles of dendrochronology, with emphasis on tree-ring studies involving climate-related problems. This book looks at the spatial and temporal variations in tree-ring growth and how they can be used to…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Groot, Flannigan, Amiro, Stocks
Forest fires in Canada currently burn 2-3 M ha annually (~0.5% of forest land), causing an estimated $2 B in timber losses. Total annual fire suppression expenditures in Canada are about $500 M. Fire statistics for the last 40 years show an increasing trend in the average annual…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Valeo, Beaty, Hesslein
This brief paper indicates that forest fires may have short and longer term effects on runoff and thus, can influence trend studies on the response of watersheds to climate change. Twenty-two watersheds at the Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario were studied to view…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pilliod, Bury, Hyde, Pearl, Corn
Information on amphibian responses to fire and fuel reduction practices is critically needed due to potential declines of species and the prevalence of new, more intensive fire management practices in North American forests. The goals of this review are to summarize the known…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lists the conference proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management (Nov. 11-16, 2003 in Orlando, Florida).
Year: 2003
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Hardy, Weise, Rehm, Linn
The Core Fire Science Caucus is a self-directed team of fire scientists who are dedicated to improving the core physical science basis for fire management. Our goal is to provide fire managers with the ability to plan for and predict (in real time) the nature of the combustion…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS