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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Werth, Ochoa
From the text ... 'The Haines Index is the first attempt to construct a formal fire-weather index based upon features of the lower atmosphere.Does it work?... This index uses the environmental lapse rate (temperature difference) within a layer of air coupled with its moisture…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schuster, Krebs
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knick, Dobkin, Rotenberry, Schroeder, Vander Haegen, Van Riper
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Sandberg
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson, Ruthford, Rorig, Sandberg
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln, Rideout
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lepofsky, Heyerdahl, Lertzman, Schaepe, Mierendorf
The recent encroachment of woody species threatening many western North American meadows has been attributed to diverse factors. We used a suite of methods in Chittenden Meadow, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, to identify the human, ecological, and physical factors…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hély, Flannigan, Bergeron
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln, Loomis, González-Cabán, Alexander
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joly, Dale, Collins, Adams
The role of wildland fire in the winter habitat use of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) has long been debated. Fire has been viewed as detrimental to caribou because it destroys the slow-growing climax forage lichens that caribou utilize in winter. Other researchers argued that…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Negreros-Castillo, Snook, Mize
Honduras or bigleaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) is the most commercially important timber species in the Neotropics, but it often does not regenerate successfully after harvesting. Effective methods are needed to sustain or increase mahogany yields by increasing…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McLaren, McDonald
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Castano-Meneses, Palacios-Vargas
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stolle, Chomitz, Lambin, Tomich
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall, Brown, Bradshaw, Jolly, Nemani
Currently, the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) produces a daily Energy Release Component (ERC) index. The ERC index is directly related to the total available energy (BTUs) per unit area (in square feet) within the flaming front at the head of a fire. It essentially…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhu, Vogelmann, Huang
The 1999 1-km historical natural fire regime and fire regime condition class maps, developed by the Forest Service using baseline data produced by the USGS scientists for general applications, have been widely used for national fire management planning purposes. However, the use…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garfin, Wordell, Brown, Ochoa, Morehouse
Millions of acres are burned each year by wildland fires, in spite of much effort going into fuel treatments, prevention, and fire suppression. An array of effective decision-support products, tools, and processes is needed to anticipate regional resource needs, improve resource…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larkin, McKenzie, O'Neill
Given the stochastic nature of fire ignition and spread, a modeling approach is needed to estimate the range of fire effects possible on current and future landscapes. We are developing a nationwide Fire Scenario Builder (FSB) that creates self-consistent, spatially explicit U.S…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mohrle, Hall, Brown
In parts of the southwestern U.S., the commencement of the Southwest Monsoon initiates a decrease in wildland fire occurrence. Corresponding changes in meteorological elements such as relative humidity and dew point are some of the mitigating factors. For example, one commonly…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kolden, Brown
Prescribed fire is generally considered a useful tool in ecosystem restoration and hazardous fuels reduction. There are many variables associated with the decision process and level of control managers can assert over prescribed burning (e.g., risk, safety, contingency,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Achtemeier
Forest and agricultural burning release chemical compounds and particulate matter into the atmosphere. Although most of this material contributes to visibility reductions through haze and provides chemical constituents available for reactions with other atmospheric pollutants,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Neill, Ferguson, Peterson, Wilson
BlueSky is a real-time smoke forecast system that predicts surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities. Developed by the USDA Forest Service in cooperation with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is a tool used by…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS