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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Johnson, Balice
Weather and climate contribute to the multidecadal, seasonal, and daily cycles of the potential for fire ignitions and for the severity of fires. We used a long-term dataset of weather parameters to characterize comparatively homogeneous periods, or subseasons, within the fire…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de Groot, Goldammer, Keenan, Brady, Lynham, Justice, Csiszar, O'Loughlin
Wildland fires burn several hundred million hectares of vegetation every year, and increased fire activity has been reported in many global regions. Many of these fires have had serious negative impacts on human safety, health, regional economies, global climate change, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Cruz, Lopes
CFIS -- which stands for Crown Fire Initiation and Spread -- is a software tool or system incorporating several recently developed models designed to simulate crown fire behavior. The main outputs of CFIS are: (1) the likelihood of crown fire initiation or occurrence; (2) the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viegas
From the text ... ''Eruptive fire behavior can be modeled and predicted mathematically.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor, Alexander
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz, Butler, Alexander
A crown fuel ignition model (CFIM) describing the temperature rise and subsequent ignition of the lower portion of tree crowns above a spreading surface fire was evaluated through a sensitivity analysis, comparison against other models, and testing against experimental fire data…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz, Butler, Alexander, Forthofer, Wakimoto
A model was developed to predict the ignition of forest crown fuels above a surface fire based on heat transfer theory. The crown fuel ignition model (hereafter referred to as CFIM) is based on first principles, integrating: (i) the characteristics of the energy source as…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Otway, Bork, Anderson, Alexander
Fire is one of the key disturbances affecting aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest ecosystems within western Canadian wildlands, including Elk Island National Park. Prescribed fire use is a tool available to modify aspen forests, yet clearly understanding its potential…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dether, Black
From the text ... 'Our intent is to identify potential 'weak signals' or 'early warding signs' that fire use practitioners might want to heed as they prepare for future fire use and suppression events....If we can train ourselves to notice and respond to surprises early -- while…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maupin
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Thomas
From the text ... 'The use of fire by humans has a long and storied history, as has been chronicled globally by noted fire historian Stephen Pyne.... A prescribed fire can, if properly executed, accomplish many beneficial purposes.... There are lots of things to potentially…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McKenzie, O'Neill, Larkin, Norheim
Visibility impairment from regional haze is a significant problem throughout the continental United States. A substantial portion of regional haze is produced by smoke from prescribed and wildland fires. Here we describe the integration of four simulation models, an array of GIS…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balasubramanian, Victor, Chun
The results of chemical analyses of precipitation samples collected in Singapore between August 1997 and July 1998 are presented. Major inorganic and organic ions were determined in 169 rain samples collected using an automated wet-only sampler. The daily sample pH values ranged…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fauria, Johnson
[1] Large lightning wildfires in Canada and Alaska account for most of the area burnt and are main determiners of the age mosaic of the landscape. Such fires occur when positive midtroposphere height anomalies persist > 10 days during the fire season. Midtroposphere anomalies…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
Presented for Lesson 30 of the S-590 Advanced Fire Behavior Interpretation Course at the National Advanced Resource Technology Center in Marana, Arizona, 5-17 March 2006.
Lesson Objectives:
Gather a cursory understanding of the philosophy and structure of the Canadian Forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sorbel
The Kenai Lake Fire burned north of Kenai Lake on the Seward Ranger District of the Chugach National Forest from June 25 through July 8, 2001. The fire’s size was approximately 3260 acres. This assessment uses the FireFamily+ and RERAP (Rare Event Risk Assessment Process)…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
From the Summary...'For many projects a simple model often provides as good information as a more complex model. Regulations, however, may dictate the level of modeling required for each project. Other times, community values will determine the level of effort needed to…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson
From the Summary...'Managing smoke in ways that prevent serious impact to sensitive areas from single burns or multiple burns occurring simultaneously requires knowledge of the weather conditions that will affect smoke emissions, trajectories, and dispersion. Not only is it…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McLin, Springer, Lane
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hély, Flannigan, Bergeron, McRae
Spring and summer simulations were carried out using the Canadian Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) and U.S. BEHAVE systems to study the role of vegetation and weather on fire behavior in the mixedwood boreal forest. Stands at Lake Duparquet (Quebec, Canada) were characterized as…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Baxter, Hsieh
As part of their project on linear disturbances, the Wildland Fire Operations Research Group of the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC) have developed a state-of-the art user-oriented computer program for gauging the effectiveness of firebreaks in stopping…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Papineau
Wintertime (November-March) surface air temperatures at 14 stations throughout the state of Alaska are correlated with the Southern Oscillation Index and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation index, for the years 1954-2000. On the seasonal and monthly timescales, the principal results…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Macias Fauria, Johnson
Large lightning wildfires in Canada and Alaska account for most of the area burnt and are main determiners of the age mosaic of the landscape. Such fires occur when positive midtroposphere height anomalies persist > 10 days during the fire season. Midtroposphere anomalies are…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hess, Scott, Hufford, Fleming
Examining the relationship of El Niño to weather patterns in Alaska shows wide climate variances that depend on the teleconnection between the tropics and the northern latitudes. However, the weather patterns exhibited in Alaska during and just after moderate to strong El Niño…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Conard, Hartzell, Hilbruner, Zimmerman
Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS