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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rees, Juday
Natural fires and logging are the two main disturbances affecting upland boreal forest in central Alaska. Data were collected at 12 logged and 12 burned former white spruce forests in 4 stand development stages: A stage (disturbed 1990-1994); B (1978-1983); C (1957-1965); and D…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yokelson, Susott, Ward, Reardon, Griffith
Biomass samples from a diverse range of ecosystems were burned in the Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory open combustion facility. Midinfrared spectra of the nascent emissions were acquired at several heights above the fires with a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward
The mixture of particles, liquids, and gaseous compounds found in smoke from wildland fires is very complex. The potential for long-term adverse health effects is much greater because of this complex mixture. The particles are known to contain many important organic compounds…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Andrews, Bradshaw, Chase, Hartford, Latham
The Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) since 1994. The WFAS will eventually combine the functionality of the current fire-danger rating system (Deeming et al. 1977) and the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Latham, Burgan, Chase, Bradshaw
Lightning location data are superimposed on lightning ignition potential and on fire danger as experimental phase 1 map products of the Wildland Fire Assessment System. As pilot components of this next generation fire danger/fire behavior system, the maps are designed to help…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder, Buck
Weather is never static. It is always dynamic. Its interpretation is an art. The art of applying complex information about weather to the equally complex task of wildland fire control cannot be acquired easily especially not by the mere reading of a book. The environment is in…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Communication and community development for health information: constructs and models for evaluation
The perspective of this review is taken from a deceptively simple vantage: community development and communication. In turn, these derivative fields draw from a wide assortment of more established literature encompassing traditional fields such as sociology, telecommunications,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogel, Williams
Experimental observations are presented on flame propagation along uniform, linear, horizontal arrays of vertically oriented matchsticks. Matchstick height and spacing between matchsticks are varied. Reported results include necessary conditions for flame propagation, linear…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Byram, Nelson
The authors present scaling relationships for modeling pulsating fires. Data gathered from various sizes of pulsating fires compared favorably with the predicted relationships between fire diameter and pulsation frequency.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder, Buck
[Excerpt from text] The fire weather occurring on a particular day is a dominant factor in the fire potential for that day. Fire climate well may be thought of as the synthesis of daily fire weather over a long period of time, is a dominant factor in fire control planning.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Weise, Biging
Wind velocity and slope are two critical variables that affect wildland fire rate of spread. The effects of these variables on rate of spread are often combined in rate-of-spread models using vector addition. The various methods used to combine wind and slope effects have seldom…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Peterson
This document contains a recommendation on obtaining simple, realistic information for an emission inventory of wildland fires appropriate for State Implementation Plan (SIP) development. The minimum precision for the inventory would be a one-year time period (current and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lenihan, Neilson
[Complete Text] Fire regimes are especially sensitive to changes in climate, and broad scale changes in the frequency and severity of fire could be more important near-term determinates of the rates of ecosystem change than more direct effects of global warming. Simulating the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM computes duff and woody fuel consumption, smoke production, and fire-caused tree mortality for most forest and rangeland types in the United States.…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
A computer program, FIRES: Fire Information Retrieval and Evaluation System, provides methods for evaluating the performance of fire danger rating indexes. The relationship between fire danger indexes and historical fire occurrence and size is examined through logistic…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sedjo
ANNOTATION: This paper undertakes a preliminary exploration into the economics of generating energy from forest-based biomass. The study assesses the feasibility of greatly expanding the share of total energy consumption in developed countries that could be economically…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ter-Mikaelian, Korzukhin
ANNOTATION: The paper presents a comprehensive review of the biomass equations for 65 North American tree species. All equations are of the form M = aDb, where M is the oven-dry weight of the biomass component of a tree (kg), D is diameter at breast height (DBH) (cm), and a and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schimel, Emanuel, Rizzo, Smith, Woodward, Fisher, Kittel, McKeown, Painter, Rosenbloom, Ojima, Parton, Kicklighter, McGuire, Melillo, Pan, Haxeltine, Prentice, Sitch, Hibbard, Nemani, Pierce, Running, Borchers, Chaney, Neilson, Braswell
Management of ecosystems at large regional or continental scales and determination of the vulnerability of ecosystems to large-scale changes in climate or atmospheric chemistry require understanding how ecosystem processes are governed at large spatial scales. A collaborative…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Chaney
The potential impacts on U.S. vegetation of carbon dioxide induced global warming were analyzed for sufficient effects, either positive or negative, that might require dramatic shifts in forest management policies. The Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System (MAPSS) was used to…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
MAPSS (Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System) is a global biogeography model that simulates the potential natural vegetation that can be supported at any upland site in the world under a long-term steady-state climate. MAPSS operates on the fundamental principle that ecosystems…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kittel, Royle, Daly, Rosenbloom, Gibson, Fisher, Schimel, Berliner
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Law
PCDANGER is a personal computer application of the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) that calculates both 1978 and 1988 version fire danger indexes from daily weather observations and forecasts. Its computational routines (NFDRCALC) are the same as those used in the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stockstad, Lory
A furnace capable of producing either spontaneous or pilot-ignition and measuring temperatures at which, these ignitions occur has been designed and constructed for use in ignition studies of fine forest fuels. One-inch-long sections of conifer needles, grass stems and leaves,…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Plevel
Wildland fires are destroying more homes and threatening more urban areas in the United States every year. Much of this destruction happens because more people are moving into the wildland-urban interface. A problem once thought unique to Southern California is now recognized as…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Walker, Hobbs, Hooper, Lawton, Sala, Tilman
Changes in the abundance of species - especially those that influence water and nutrient dynamics, trophic interactions, or disturbance regime - affect the structure and functioning of ecosystems. Diversity is also functionally important, both because it increases the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES