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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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A powerpoint presentation describing the advanced features of the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), version 5.0 computer program that covers the advanced use of soil heating and Burnup modules, batch mode and linking FOFEM to GIS.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A powerpoint presentation describing the basic use of the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), version 5.0 computer program covering background information, FOFEM modules, inputs and outputs, step-by-step exercises and saving FOFEM projects and output.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A powerpoint presentation describing the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), version 5.0 computer program.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document contains the technical description of the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, Version 4 (hereafter referred to as FETM 4). This technical documentation includes a description of the architecture, equations, assumptions, and principal components and processes used in FETM…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Tradeoff Model Version 4 (FETM 4) is a landscape-scale, strategic planning model designed to simulate the long-term tradeoffs between wildland fire and various fuel treatment alternatives over large areas of the landscape encompassing diverse environmental…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Gammel, Rebain, Robinson, Keyser
You can directly load FVS predictions into databases, initialize FVS from databases, or both, using the Database Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (DB-FVS). This document says how to use the system capabilities and outlines how the extension works. Examples are also…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi
The Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan promulgates policy objectives that recognize the ecological importance of perpetuating natural fire regimes. The same policy also directs land managers to balance the protection of ecological principles with appropriate risk management…
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
This program calculates the consumption of fuel, emission of particles, and dispersion of thesepollutants produced by prescribed burning of forest and range vegetation.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
The Fuelbed Characteristic Classification System, or FCCS, (Sandberg and Ottmar 2002) is a systematic catalog of inherent physical properties of any wildland fuelbed. FCCS is designed to provide the best possible fuel estimates and potential fire parameters based on as much or…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright, Ottmar, Ferguson, Vihnanek
Research to quantify fuel consumption and flammability in shrub-dominated ecosystems has received little attention despite the widespread occurrence of fire-influenced, shrub-dominated landscapes across the arid lands of the western United States. While some research has…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jorgenson, Buchholtz
[Contact author before citing] Temperatures in northern Alaska have shown a warming trend over the past 30 years, so we expect that vegetation would be changing also. However, little evidence of recent vegetative changes measured on the ground exists for northern Alaska. This…
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
Walstad, Reed, Doescher, Kauffman, Miller, Shindler, Tappeiner
Distance education, facilitated by modern telecommunications and computer technology, is revolutionizing delivery of college-level courses. In creating an interdisciplinary course on wildland fire, we learned that initial investments of at least $100,000 may be required,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Ferguson
The primary objective of this work is to assess the local, regional, and national risks to air quality and visibility from wildland fire. This will be done by generating and analyzing statistics of daily and nightly variability of surface wind, mixing height, and dispersion…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Dean
Project Objectives: The overall objective of this project is to construct a fully functional decision support system that wildland managers can use to develop optimal or near-optimal fuel treatment prescriptions. The task of accomplishing this goal has been divided into a number…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Yemshanov, Perera
We reviewed the published knowledge on forest succession in the North American boreal biome for its applicability in modelling forest cover change over large extents. At broader scales, forest succession can be viewed as forest cover change over time. Quantitative case studies…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shibata, Petrone, Hinzman, Boone
The concentration of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and the contents of water-extractable organic carbon (WOC) and minerals were measured in moss and soils before and after a prescribed fire in interior Alaska to clarify the effect of the fire on the DOC dynamics in soil with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schuur, Trumbore, Mack, Harden
Fire is an important pathway for carbon (C) loss from boreal forest ecosystems and has a strong effect on ecosystem C balance. Fires can range widely in severity, defined as the amount of vegetation and forest floor consumed by fire, depending on local fuel and climatic…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perera, Schnekenburger, Baldwin, Boychuk, Yemshanov, Weaver
A scenario simulation model, the Boreal Forest Landscape Dynamics Simulator, a grid-based spatially explicit model, which uses georeferenced data for input (e.g., forest cover, climate, terrain), encapsulates spatial interactions within the model functions, and produces…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perera, Baldwin, Yemshanov, Schnekenburger, Weaver, Boychuk
Planning for old-growth forests requires answers to two large-scale questions: (1) How much old-growth forest should exist? and (2) where can they be sustained in a landscape? Stand-level knowledge of old-growth physiognomy and dynamics are not sufficient to answer these…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Neill, Kasischke, Richter
Postfire changes in the local energy balance and soil chemistry may significantly alter rates of carbon turnover in organic-rich soils of boreal forests. This study combines field measurements of soil carbon uptake and emission along a 140-year chronosequence of burned black…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, MacPherson, Desjardins, Chen, Liu
Recent CO2 flux measurements from towers and aircraft (net ecosystem exchange by eddy covariance) and remote sensing/modeling (net primary productivity - NPP) following fire show that the regenerating boreal forest in western Canada has a low initial flux that increases with…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Chen
The mapping of Canadian fires is a large effort supported by provincial, territorial, and federal agencies. Remote sensing techniques can aid in mapping, especially in remote areas and during busy fire seasons. The SPOT-VEGETATION (SPOT-VGT) sensor has previously shown promise…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Thomas
In an effort to unbury the past and to increase both institutional memory and organizational learning within the wildland fire community, the authors approached the editorial staff of Fire Management Today with the idea of republishing a selection of these past fire-behavior-…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES