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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Episode 3 of the Fire Danger Learning System describes the dataflow of weather data into the various databases and processors that provide fire danger calculations for the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Loboda, McGuire, Genet, Hoy, Kasischke
Wildfire, a dominant disturbance in boreal forests, is highly variable in occurrence and behavior at multiple spatiotemporal scales. New data sets provide more detailed spatial and temporal observations of active fires and the post-burn environment in Alaska. In this study, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hayasaka, Tanaka, Bieniek
Recent concurrent widespread fires in Alaska are evaluated to assess their associated synoptic-scale weather conditions. Several periods of high fire activity from 2003 to 2015 were identified using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) hotspot data by…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
A pictorial poster showing many cloud formations and what these clouds mean in regards to fire weather and fire behavior.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Kurth, Saperstein
Webinar with Robert (Zeke) Ziel, Laurie Kurth, and Lisa Saperstein. Organized by the Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee. Recorded on May 24, 2016.
Robert (Zeke) Ziel: Using FFMC and DMC to assess fuel moisture and use of BUI to help adjust ERC values
Laurie Kurth: Some…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alden, Strader, Ziel
Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review | Wedresday, October 12, 2016Presenter: Heidi Strader and Robert Ziel, with input from Sharon Alden
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saltenberger
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: John Saltenberger
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Wildland Fire Library is a collection of long-term assessments, fire progressions, fire behavior reports, and other documents and resources to support fire modeling and assessment of long-duration fires. Each file is tied to some event with a location, a start date, and…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Simard
From the Introduction:'Research in the field of forest fire protection almost inevitably necessitates a requirement for meteorological data. While many projects utilize on-site observations taken concurrently with the experiment, there also exists a considerable requirement for…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the introduction...'If left indefintely in a constant atmospheric environment, dead vegetation material tends toward a characteristic equilibrium moisture content. since atmospheric conditions in nature usually vary appreciably on a scale of hours, it is only fast-drying…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Walker, Stocks
Two wildfires in Ontario in 1971 are analyzed with respect to fire weather, fuel conditions and fire behavior, including rate of spread, fuel consumption and fire intensity. No attempt is made to assess suppression techniques or to discuss fire control costs.
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell
Air temperature at the San Luis experimental watershed were predicted from temperatures at Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the basis of linear regressions between temperatures at the two locations calculated from a full year of continuous record at San Luis and official 3-hour…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
Numerical and analytical soluations of the Fickian diffusion equation were used to determine the effects of precipitation on dead cylindrical forest fuels. The analytical solution provided a physical framework. The numerical solutions were then used to refine the analytical…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hare, Ritchie
The long-established zonal divisions of the boreal forest-forest-tundra, open woodland, and closed forest-are examined in the light of new information about energy income and of satellite photographs of the divisions themselves. The North American divisions are found to lie…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Deeming, Lancaster, Fosberg, Furman, Schroeder
The National Fire-Danger Rating (NFDR) System produces three indexes-Occurrence, Burning, and Fire Load-that measure relative fire potentials. These indexes are derived from the fire behavior components-Spread, Energy Release, and Ignition-plus a consideration of Risk. Three…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belval, Wei, Bevers
Wildfire behavior is a complex and stochastic phenomenon that can present unique tactical management challenges. This paper investigates a multistage stochastic mixed integer program with full recourse to model spatially explicit fire behavior and to select suppression locations…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Wotton, Marshall, de Groot, Johnstone, Jurko, Cantin
The objective of this paper is to examine the sensitivity of fuel moisture to changes in temperature and precipitation and explore the implications under a future climate. We use the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System components to represent the moisture content of fine…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wiggins, Veraverbeke, Henderson, Karion, Miller, Lindaas, Commane, Sweeney, Luus, Tosca, Dinardo, Wofsy, Miller, Randerson
Relationships between boreal wildfire emissions and day-to-day variations in meteorological variables are complex and have important implications for the sensitivity of high-latitude ecosystems to climate change. We examined the influence of environmental conditions on boreal…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Di Giuseppe, Pappenberger, Wetterhall, Krzeminski, Camia, Libertà, San Miguel
A global fire danger rating system driven by atmospheric model forcing has been developed with the aim of providing early warning information to civil protection authorities. The daily predictions of fire danger conditions are based on the U.S. Forest Service National Fire-…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Strader, Pyne, Henderson
Presented at the 2016 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop. Weather information, surface observations and forecasts, is among the most widely viewed topics on the web. It is the one way that the history, current setting, and forecast fire potential can be quickly compared. Fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Brenner, Long
Fine dead fuel moisture content (FMC) is a critical factor in fire behavior. As 1-hour fuels (needles, grass, leaves) dry out, flame length, rate of spread, fire intensity, and probability of ignition from embers increase. With grassy fuels (fuel models 1, 2, 3), a 5% decrease…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayasaka, Tanaka, Bieniek
Recent concurrent widespread fires in Alaska are evaluated to assess their associated synoptic-scale weather conditions. Several periods of high fire activity from 2003 to 2015 were identified using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) hotspot data by…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wagenbrenner
Near-surface wind is the driving environmental factor for wildland fire spread and behavior. Local-scale terrain and vegetation can significantly alter wind over small scales that are not captured by standard weather prediction models and are not easily anticipated by even…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES