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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Looman
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
González-Cabán
A procedure has been developed for estimating the economic cost of initial attack and large-fire suppression. The procedure uses a per-unit approach to estimate total attack and suppression costs on an input-by-input basis. Fire management inputs (FMIs) are the production units…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
He, Mladenoff
Understanding disturbance and recovery of forest landscapes is a challenge because of complex interactions over a range of temporal and spatial scales. Landscape simulation models offer an approach to studying such systems at broad scales. Fire can be simulated spatially using…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Travers
I conducted a field study of the annual, Clarkia unguiculata, to examine the performance of pollen (pollen-germination time and pollen-tube growth rate) produced by plants growing in two different environments: recently burned and unburned oak woodland. Previous studies on the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Islam, Martell
Each day, forest fire managers must deploy airtankers at initial attack bases to minimize initial attack response times. They must decide how many airtankers to deploy at each base and the initial attack range of each airtanker. We develop a daily airtanker simulation model and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gove, Ringvall, Stahl, Ducey
This paper presents a method based on angle-gauge sampling useful for inventorying downed coarse woody material in forest stands. The method is closely related to transect relascope sampling, except that sample points are used rather than line transects. The estimators for the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mills
The analysis of alternative fire management programs should be integrated into the land and resource management planning process, but a single fire management analysis model cannot meet all planning needs. Therefore, a set of simulation models that are analytically separate from…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Norum, Van Veldhuizen, Teutsch
Fall seed-dispersing species, birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.), alder (Alnus crispa (Ait.) Pursh), and black spruce Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), and summer-seeding species, aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.), balsam poplar (P. balsamifera L.), feltleaf willow (Salix alaxensis…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the Federal and State levels. The topics discussed at the symposium include fire economics, planning, and policy on wildfire and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Slack
This publication provides homeowners and builders in the Wildland Urban Interface with design and building techniques that can offer more protection from wildland or forest fires. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Colorado State Forest Service and the Colorado…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Porterie, Loraud, Morvan, Larini
A computational procedure for predicting the buoyant plume above a line fire in a cross wind is reported. The present model takes into account the interaction between the plume and the surrounding flow by solving the two-dimensional equations for the conservation of mass,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richards
This work considers wildfire growth over variable topography. Through an analysis of fire perimeter growth for homogeneous conditions over a surface of constant slope, a mathematical model of fire growth for heterogeneous conditions and variable surface is proposed. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Santoni, Balbi, Dupuy
A two-dimensional non-stationary model of fire spread including slope effects is proposed. The numerical study of this model allows us to predict the rate of spread, the fire front perimeter and the temperature distribution for a fire spreading across a fuel bed under slope…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balbi, Santoni, Dupuy
The analysis of laboratory fire experiments led to the development of a reaction-diffusion model for the spread of fire across a fuel bed in windless and slopeless conditions. A method for the determination of coefficients in this model based on the dynamic features of a…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wotton, McAlpine, Hobbs
To determine the effect of fire front width on surface fire spread rates, a series of simultaneously ignited experimental fires was carried out in a pine plantation. Fires were ignited in plots with widths ranging from 0.5 m to 10 m and were burned in low wind conditions. Flame…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Handbook for criteria pollutant inventory development: a beginner's guide for point and area sources
This document will help state, local, and tribal air pollution control agency personnel compile an inventory of criteria pollutant emissions from stationary (point and area) sources. The information contained in this document is intended to serve as a reference guide only, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clements, Ward, Adkins
Photography is practical for recording and measuring some aspects of forest fire behavior if the scale and perspective can be determined. This paper describes a photogrammetric method for measuring flame height and rate of spread for fires on flat terrain. The flames are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seaver, Roussopoulos, Freeling
A preliminary decision analysis model addressing the choice among alternative suppression strategies on escaped wildfires is presented. A case study application of the model, in the context of an Escaped Fire Situation Analysis on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, is…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Latham
This paper presents a system for locating lightning strikes and predicting the number of fire ignitions on forests and rangelands. This system uses variables representing weather and fuels and real-time lightning locations as inputs. Outputs from the system consist of printouts…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevins, Fischer
Describes structure of a computer system that allows fire managers to evaluate alternative prescriptions for unscheduled prescribed fires. Provides instructions for initial data entry and execution of programs RXBUILD andRXFIRES, the two main components of the system. A…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevins, Fischer
Describes a user-oriented computer system that allows fire managers to evaluate alternative prescriptions for unscheduled prescribed fires within specific fire management planning areas. Provides instructions for the use of the system, preparation of appropriate program inputs,…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, McClelland
Provides subject matter and geographic keyword indexes to more than 1,700 titles containing information about 86 species of cavity-nesting birds that inhabit North American forests. Related titles containing information about forest snags, fire, insects, disease, and decay are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Revegetation with native species: proceedings, 1997 Society of Ecological Restoration annual meeting
The seven papers in this proceedings address the current state of knowledge and application of ecological restoration in the Western United States. They provide an overview of: rangeland revegetation lessons as they apply to ecological restoration today; USDI National Park…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES