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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 76 - 100 of 152
Viegas
The vectoring of wind and slope effects on a flame front is considered. Mathematical methods for vectoring are presented and compared to results of laboratory experiments. The concept of multiple standard fire spread directions is presented. The experimental laboratory study,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
By using parcel model theory to construct a two-dimensional parameter space formed by low-level atmospheric stability and moisture, a simple framework on which to examine certain fire parcel properties associated with vertical column development is established. This framework is…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan, Jones, Troutwine, Krueger, Zuuring, Meneghin
MAGIS eXpress is a modeling system for spatially-explicit analysis of timber harvest scheduling and access management. GIS (Geographic Information System) layers are imported and used as the basis for formulating harvest and access models. Access issues that can be addressed…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Ollinger, Kimball
A growing body of research has demonstrated the complementary nature of remote sensing and ecosystem modeling in studies of terrestrial carbon cycling. Whereas remote sensing instruments are designed to capture spatially continuous information on the reflectance properties of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weng, Kamikawa, Fukuda, Hasemi, Kagiya
A series of experiments to study merged flame from multiple fire sources was carried out. The porous 15-cm^2 burner was used as a unit burner and propane was employed as a fuel. Many burners with various heat release rates were placed in a square configuration with various…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viegas, Pita
Canyons or ridges are associated with a large number of fatal accidents produced during forest fires all over the world. A contribution to the understanding of fire behaviour in these terrain conditions is given in this paper. The basic geometrical parameters of the canyon…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gaberšek, Durran
Gap winds produced by a uniform airstream flowing over an isolated flat-top ridge cut by a straight narrow gap are investigated by numerical simulation. On the scale of the entire barrier, the proportion of the oncoming flow that passes through the gap is relatively independent…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Alden, Shulski
This proposal is in response to the Joint Fire Science Program's Announcement for Proposals 2004-2, Task 1, 'directly address[ing] local knowledge gaps associated with planning and implementation of...fuels treatment...that are specifically identified by an agency administrator…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala
This guide contains instructions for using PROBACRE. PROBACRE is a computer program developed for purposes of assessing the long term risk associated with the level of protection provided to an area. The risk of concern centers on the chance that a protection area over time will…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Sandberg, Norheim
Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS) is a user-friendly computer program designed for scientists and resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software manages data concerning consumption, emissions and heat release characteristics…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A new PC-based Visual Basic software program called FEPS version 1.0 (Fire Emission Production Simulator) is now available on the Web. It is a user-friendly computer program, designed to predict emissions and heat release characteristics from prescribed or wildfires using system…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGaughey
The Stand Visualization System (SVS) generates images depicting stand conditions represented by a list of individual stand components, e.g., trees, shrubs, and down material, using detailed geometric models (McGaughey 1997). The images produced by SVS, while somewhat abstract,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer
Gridded wind is a method that can provide information about the effect of topography on local wind flow at the 100-300 ft scale (Fig. 1). Wind information at this detail is not available from the weather service. The wind simulations are not forecasts but rather simulations of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
Natural resource science and management seem to have entered the 'age of the landscape.' Historically, resources have been studied and managed from a stand, or site, perspective and have generally been approached as single-issue problems. Forests, water, fish, and biodiversity…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kittel, Rosenbloom, Royle, Daly, Gibson, Fisher, Thornton, Yates, Aulenbach, Kaufman, McKeown, Bachelet, Schimel
Analysis and simulation of biospheric responses to historical forcing require surface climate data that capture those aspects of climate that control ecological processes, including key spatial gradients and modes of temporal variability. We developed a multivariate, gridded…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daly, Gibson, Doggett, Smith, Taylor
A high-quality, topographically-sensitive, 103-year data set of monthly maximum and minimum temperature and precipitation on a 2.5-min (4-km) grid over the conterminous United States became available via the World Wide Web in 2002 (Daly et al. 2000, Gibson et al. 2002). The…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Neilson, Lenihan, Drapek
We simulated the variability in natural ecosystem carbon storage under historical conditions (1895-1994) in six regions of the conterminous USA as delineated for the USGCRP National Assessment (2001). The largest simulated variations in carbon fluxes occurred in the Midwest,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rosner
Black spruce, Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P., in Alaska is largely overlooked in terms of growth and yield research because of its small size and slow growth. Growth and yield information is therefore limited or nonexistent. This study developed the first polymorphic site index (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Ferguson, Goodrick, Bradshaw, Werth
Numerical weather models are being relied on more and more to develop fire weather forecasts and predict fire behavior and fire danger. Their accuracy in these applications, however, has heretofore been unknown. The purpose of this project was to study model predictions during…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The USDA Forest Service provides online tools to help forestland managers and the general public gauge current and future wildfire threats.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Alvarado, Ferguson, Leuschen, McKenzie, O'Neill, Ottmar, Peterson
The primary objective of the Emission Production Model project is: To improve the usability, accuracy, and applicability of an Emission Production Model to predict air pollutant source strength, heat release rate, and plume buoyancy from all fire environments and all fuel types…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Lawler
This technical Fire Management Project is a comparison of the American system of fire danger rating (NFDRS) and the Canadian system of fire danger rating (FWI). The scope of the analysis area was the east zone of the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota. The…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thornley, Cannell
Climate change is predicted to shorten the fire interval in boreal forests. Many studies have recorded positive effects of fire on forest growth over a few decades, but few have modeled the long-term effects of the loss of carbon and nitrogen to the atmosphere. We used a process…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Wotton, Alexander, Dalrymple
Fire spread and flame temperature were examined in a series of nine experimental crown fires conducted in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Detailed maps of fire front progression revealed areas with higher rates of spread in the order of tens of metres in horizontal dimension…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Alexander, Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), carried out between 1995 and 2001 in Canada's Northwest Territories, involved 18 experimental high-intensity crown fires, with more than 100 participants representing 30 organizations from 14 countries. ICFME has…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES