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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rehm, Mell
The present paper presents a simple model to demonstrate the effect on grass-fire propagation of the winds induced by structural fires in a wildland-urban interface setting. The model combines an empirical formula for wind-driven grass-fire spread and a physics-based analytical…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pimont, Dupuy, Linn, Dupont
The wildfire model FIRETEC simulates the large coherent eddies of the wind-flows induced by the canopy. It has been qualitatively validated in its ability to simulate fire behavior, but there is still a need to validate physical submodels separately. In the present study, the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Preisler, Burgan, Eidenshink, Klaver, Klaver
The current study presents a statistical model for assessing the skill of fire danger indices and for forecasting the distribution of the expected numbers of large fires over a given region and for the upcoming week. The procedure permits development of daily maps that forecast…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Parisien, Miller, Ager, Finney
Techniques for modeling burn probability (BP) combine the stochastic components of fire regimes (ignitions and weather) with sophisticated fire growth algorithms to produce high-resolution spatial estimates of the relative likelihood of burning. Despite the numerous…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heinsch, Andrews, Kurth
Interpretation of fire danger rating indices in the U.S. is based on the historic weather of a given area. Index values can be interpreted differently for different regions and for different fuel models in the same region. Therefore, indices are often expressed in relative terms…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cary, Flannigan, Keane, Bradstock, Davies, Lenihan, Li, Logan, Parsons
The behaviour of five landscape fire models (CAFE, FIRESCAPE, LAMOS(HS), LANDSUM and SEMLAND) was compared in a standardised modelling experiment. The importance of fuel management approach, fuel management effort, ignition management effort and weather in determining variation…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer, Shannon, Butler
WindNinja is a simple diagnostic model designed for simulating microscale, terrain-influenced winds. A recent addition to WindNinja is a diurnal slope flow model. The model uses sensible surface heat flux, distance to ridge top or valley bottom, slope steepness, and surface and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Bradshaw, Butler
The lack of detailed wind speed and direction information is one major source of uncertainty in fire management decisions. Methods to obtain estimates of local wind speed and direction at the 100 to 200m scale have not been readily available. In most cases, fire incident…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Accurate regional weather forecasts are critical to successful wildfire operations and prescribed burns. Computer forecast models produce indispensable information about atmospheric conditions, but they can also generate some significant inaccuracies, most notably in relative…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
The purpose of this paper is to document the calibration process on the Shanta Creek Fire (#348) so that future analysts can benefit from this procedure and findings.
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
The purpose of this paper is to document the calibration process on the Zitziana Fire (#284) so that future analysts can benefit from this procedure and findings.
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Seasonal Assessment workshop was held in mid April for Alaska. The initial fire potential predictions made for the 2009 Alaska season all indicated a lower than average number of acres would be burned. The AICC Predictive Services group, the Alaska Center for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chuah, Kuwana, Saito
We conducted a series of laboratory-scale fire whirl experiments spinning 5-cm-diameter methanol pool fires and observed elongated flame height compared with the pool fire without spin. A simple scaling analysis was conducted to obtain dependency of the axial flame height on the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kiefer, Parker, Charney
Wildfires are capable of inducing atmospheric circulations that result predominantly from large temperature anomalies produced by the fire. The fundamental dynamics through which a forest fire and the atmosphere interact to yield different convective regimes is still not well…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw
FireFamilyPlus (FFP) is a PC-based software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) or the Canadian Fire Danger Rating System (CFDRS). Fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Peterson, Littell
A warmer climate in western North America will likely affect forests directly through soil moisture stress and indirectly through increased extent and severity of disturbances. We propose that stress complexes, combinations of biotic and abiotic stresses, compromise the vigor…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weir
Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds, improve livestock range and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krawchuk, Moritz
Aim: Substantial overlap in the climate characteristics of the United States and China results in similar land-cover types and weather conditions, especially in the eastern half of the two countries. These parallels suggest similarities in fire regimes as well, yet relatively…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bradshaw, McCormick
Welcome to the FireFamily Plus (FFP) Version 4 User’s Guide, the first update to the FireFamily Plus Version 2 User’s Guide (Bradshaw and McCormick, 2000). FFP is software for summarizing and analyzing daily weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler
Previous funding from the JFSP has been used to test the utility of commercial engineering software for simulating surface wind flows in support of fire management decisions. Efforts over the last three years have demonstrated that this technology can be very useful as a…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Lahm
A 36-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. A presentation describing a progressive approach and overreaching principles of smoke management. Also covers the development…
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
O'Meilia
A 38-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation describes the purpose of Rx fire councils, provides an introduction to the Oklahoma (OK) prescribed Fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Krawchuk, de Groot, Wotton, Gowman
Wildland fire is a global phenomenon, and a result of interactions between climate-weather, fuels and people. Our climate is changing rapidly primarily through the release of greenhouse gases that may have profound and possibly unexpected impacts on global fire activity. The…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Stocks, Turetsky, Wotton
Forest fires are a significant and natural element of the circumboreal forest. Fire activity is strongly linked to weather, and increased fire activity due to climate change is anticipated or arguably has already occurred. Recent studies suggest a doubling of area burned along…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Krawchuk, de Groot, Wotton, Gowman
Wildland fire is a global phenomenon, and a result of interactions between climate-weather, fuels and people. Our climate is changing rapidly primarily through the release of greenhouse gases that may have profound and possibly unexpected impacts on global fire activity. The…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES