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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Mutch, Briggs
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pickford, Sandberg
A simple, inexpensive, and relatively accurate photographic method for date collection is described. Objects of interest are triangulated from films taken simultaneously at two camera positions. Accumulated synchronization and measurement errors amounted to 0.2 - 0.5 meter. The…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnston, van Kooten
In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies incentivize use of forest biomass as an energy source. Many governments have assumed (legislated) the carbon flux from burning biomass to be neutral because biomass growth sequesters CO2.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scheer
From the text: Firefighting, especially smokejumping, is an exercise in outlasting the uncomfortable. I think it has little to do with gender; rather it is each individual's assessment and subsequent reaction to a given situation.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McGee
From the text...'A group of valiant men known as the Triple Nickles, the first African-American smokerjumpers, paved the way for so many in the smokejumping cadre...'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Val Martin, Pierce, Heald
From the text ... 'Smoke can be transported hundreds of miles downwind by prevailing winds or convective winds generated by fires themselves with concentrations sufficient to make it the most significant source of air pollution over large areas.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cottrell
From the text...'Smokejumpers come from all over the country and represent a very diverse and well-educated workforce.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bramwell
From the text ... 'One of the smokejumper program's defining characteristics is its commitment to innovation--a constant refinement of equipment and techniques that hearkens back to the program's earliest days.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schreier, Richter, Schepaschenko, Shvidenko, Hilboll, Burrows
Current fire emission inventories apply universal emission factors (EFs) for the calculation of NOx emissions over large biomes such as boreal forest. However, recent satellite-based studies over tropical and subtropical regions have indicated spatio-temporal variations in EFs…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Katurji, Nikolic, Zhong, Pratt, Yu, Heilman
We have demonstrated the use of an advanced Gaussian-Process (GP) emulator to estimate wildland fire emissions over a wide range of fuel and atmospheric conditions. The Fire Emission Production Simulator, or FEPS, is used to produce an initial set of emissions data that…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tanimoto, Ikeda, Boersma, van der A, Garivait
Past studies suggest that forest fires contribute significantly to the formation of ozone in the troposphere. However, the emissions of ozone precursors from wildfires, and the mechanisms involved in ozone production from boreal fires, are very complicated. Moreover, an…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bian, May, Kreidenweis, Pierce
Smog chambers are extensively used to study processes that drive gas and particle evolution in the atmosphere. A limitation of these experiments is that particles and gas-phase species may be lost to chamber walls on shorter timescales than the timescales of the atmospheric…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Voulgarakis, Field
Fires impact atmospheric composition through their emissions, which range from long-lived gases to short-lived gases and aerosols. Effects are typically larger in the tropics and boreal regions but can also be substantial in highly populated areas in the northern mid-latitudes.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rappold
A recent study of simulated forecast-based interventions as a tool to reduce the health and economic burden during smoke episodes. The study illustrated a large health burden associated with these events and the potential benefit an adaptation of current forecasting technologies…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a large-eddy simulation (LES) code for low-speed flows, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires. Smokeview (SMV) is a visualization program used to display the output of FDS and CFAST simulations.
Year: 2015
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Tanner, Newman
This report reviews the current state of analytical methodology for sulfate in airborne particles. Methods for determination of total aerosol sulfate and total soluble sulfate are assessed. A more detailed review of the relatively new techniques for quantitative speciation of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parmeter, Uhrenholdt
From the Discussion and Summary ... 'The data and observations presented here are fragmentary and are not adequate to establish that smoke from wildfires or prescribed burns markedly affects microbial activity in wildland plant communities. They suggest, however, that such…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
The Department of Interior is actively engaged in the smoke management business from two apparently opposite viewpoints. In one case we are trying to prevent or extinguish wildfires and minimize adverse effects on air quality as well as other resources. On the other hand we are…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cooper
[no description entered]
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coleman
[no description entered]
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierovich
'We have read the recent review article 'Primary and Secondary Particulates as Pollutants' by P. F. Fennelly with considerable interest, but yet, concern. Our interest is based on an awareness of the need to examine particulate pollution in terms of particle size and chemical…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS