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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Brauneis
From the text ... 'The Sioux and Cheyenne traditionally set fire to the prairie as they moved their summer camps in pursuit of game. ...The Great Sioux War provides a sharp contrast in how two different cultures with diverse values and objectives utilized fire. ...Many fires set…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jandt, Hrobak
A summary report by Alaska Fire Service personnel on the record season of 2004 in Alaska, including statistics, smoke impacts, and research conducted during the fire season. Poster presentation at Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes Conference, Spokane, WA Nov. 17-19, 2004.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Presented for Lesson 30 of the S-590 Advanced Fire Behavior Interpretation Course at the National Advanced Resource Technology Center in Marana, Arizona, 7-19 March 2004.
Lesson Objectives:
Gather a cursory understanding of the philosophy and structure of the Canadian Forest…
Year: 2004
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Wakimoto
The unknowns in wildland fire phenomenology lead to a simplified expirical model approach for predicting the onset of crown fires in live coniferous forests on level terrain. Model parameterization is based on a data set (n = 71) generated from conducting outdoor experimental…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Coen, Latham
This paper describes a coupled fire-atmosphere model that uses a sophisticated high-resolution non-hydrostatic numerical mesoscale model to predict the local winds which are then used as input to the prediction of fire spread. The heat and moisture fluxes from the fire are then…
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
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
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
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
Gebert, Calkin
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
St. John, Alexander
'Understanding the Fire Weather Index (FWI) System' is the latest CDROM-based wildland fire training course produced by Alberta's Hinton Training Centre in concert with Christie Communications to utilize interactive multimedia technology (Alexander and others 2002). The course,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads
Since 27 September 1997, the Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) has been making near real-time experimental global and regional dynamical forecasts with the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) global spectral model (GSM) and the corresponding…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Finney, Andrews, Albini
A numerical model for the prediction of the spread rate and intensity of forest crown fires has been developed. The model is the culmination of over 20 years of previously reported fire modelling research and experiments; however, it is only recently that it has been formulated…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Howard, McWilliams
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) provides information on the Internet about the biology, ecology, and effects of fire on about 1,000 plant species, animal species, and vegetation types. FEIS summarizes the scientific literature regarding fire effects on most dominant…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holsinger, Parsons, Rollins, Karau, Keyser
Biophysical settings describe site-specific physical and biotic conditions from which landscape composition, structure and function can be predicted, and represent a key starting point on the road to predicting fire regimes across landscapes. Previous efforts to map biophysical…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butteri
This project builds and analyzes a model for predicting the occurrence of Lightning Fire Days (days on which at least one lightning fire is discovered) in interior Alaska's Tok Area Fire Management Zone. The model is developed through logistic regression analysis of historical (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Kaufman, Hao, Meghan Salmon, Gao
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments onboard the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Terra and Aqua spacecrafts have several visible and near-infrared (NIR) channels with resolutions of 250, 500, and 1 km for remote sensing of land…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document describes the Personal Computer Historical Analysis software, a module of NFMAS (National Fire Management Analysis System) which allows the user to analyze historical wildland fire occurrence for wildland fire planning.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, McCormick
This document is the Users Guide for the FireFamily Plus version 3 software system. FireFamily Plus is a software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw
This document describes the upgrades to the FireFamily Plus is a software system for version 3.0.5. Version 3.0.5.0 is a special FireFamily Plus release at the request of Fire and Aviation Management to respond to the National Wildfire Coordinating Committees' (NWCG) adoption of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Landres
We report the results of a questionnaire and workshop that sought to gain a better and deeper understanding of the contemporary information needs of wildland fire and fuels managers. Results from the questionnaire indicated that the decision to suppress a wildland fire was most…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bevins, Seli
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a program for personal computers that is a collection of mathematical models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams. It can be used for a multitude of fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Horel, Splitt, Pechmann, Olsen, Delgado
During the last couple of years and stemming from the year 2000 fire plan, Land Management Agencies hired 20 meteorologists nationwide to develop fire weather programs at Geographic Area Coordination Centers and to introduce and implement new programs in support of the fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES