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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Johnstone
This project aims to use data from the 2004 fires in Alaska to link pre-fire vegetation composition and soil conditions with patterns of burn severity and post-fire stand rehabilitation. The primary objective is to examine how variations in burn severity can influence patterns…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Babbitt, Ferguson, Vihnanek
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episodes for local residents and communities and causing…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Jenkins, Gould, Cheney
Physics-based coupled fire-atmosphere models are based on approximations to the governing equations of fluid dynamics, combustion, and the thermal degradation of solid fuel. They require significantly more computational resources than the most commonly used fire spread models,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McKenzie, Raymond, Kellogg, Norheim, Andreu, Bayard, Kopper, Elman
Fuel mapping is a complex and often multidisciplinary process, involving remote sensing, ground-based validation, statistical modeling, and knowledge-based systems. The scale and resolution of fuel mapping depend both on objectives and availability of spatial data layers. We…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Linn, Winterkamp, Edminster, Colman, Smith
Ten simulations were performed with the HIGRAD/FIRETEC wildfire behaviour model in order to explore its utility in studying wildfire behaviour in inhomogeneous topography. The goal of these simulations is to explore the potential extent of the coupling between the fire,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Liljedahl, Hinzman, Busey, Yoshikawa
The Kougarok area, situated on the central Seward Peninsula, Alaska, experienced a severe fire in August 2002. This may be the only tundra fire where high-quality prefire (1999-2002) and postfire (2003-2006) active layer and meteorology measurements have been collected in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leblon, Garcia, Oldford, MacLean, Flannigan
In Canada, fire danger is rated by the Canadian forest fire danger rating system (CFFDRS). One of its components is the fire weather index (FWI) system, which has among others the drought code (DC). DC is used here as a surrogate of dead forest fuel moisture. DC values were…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kushida, Isaev, Takao, Maximov, Fukuda
We evaluated the estimation of the area ratios of the land categories including the total-burn/wither and surface-burn areas following a wildfire in East Siberia. We obtained the land classification from 30-m resolution Landsat ETM+ image data and used it for evaluating the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevers, Kent
Reducing catastrophic fire risk is an important objective of many fuel treatment programs (Kent et al. 2003; Machlis et al. 2002; USDA/USDI 2001a). In practice, risk reductions can be accomplished by lowering the probability of a given loss to forest fires, the amount of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin, Raish, Kent
From Publisher's website: Wildfire Risk follows from an increasing awareness among fire experts that relying on fire behavior models from the physical sciences to design a risk management program is no longer sufficient - and that simply increasing public knowledge related to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Peterson, Carlino, Barnes, Eagle
FIREHouse (the Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse) is a website providing online access to information about fire science and technology relevant to Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. It's expansion in 2005 to include Alaska resulted in two additional…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (PNW) completed a total of eight 3-day regional fuels workshops and six ½-day 'mini-workshops' that demonstrated the use of the Natural Fuels Photo Series, Digital Photo Series, Fuel Characteristic Classification System, and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Shulski, Alden
This project will correct data availability and quality assurance problems surrounding the Alaskan Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) and other Alaska weather station data. By placing all Alaska weather station data into a single quality controlled database, and automating…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
Live fuels are an important component of the wildland fuel complex but no method exists to describe and quantify their seasonality across large areas. Existing methods that use satellite data are only useful for monitoring current live vegetation conditions and do not provide a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Baker
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (PNW Research Station) and the Fire Chemistry Project (RM Research Station) have completed the data collection and modeling for fuel consumption and smoke emissions during wildland fires in boreal forested types in Alaska.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Urbanski
This document contains a description of the air quality forecasting system in operation at the Missoula Fire Science Laboratory. This air quality forecasting system has been steadily assimilating new techniques and algorithms as they have been developed over the past four years…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Hudak, Robichaud, Ryan
In this rapid response project, we have collected data on post-fire effects and pre-fire fuels and vegetation from 10 large fires that burned in 2003 and 2004. We use field and remotely sensed data collected during and soon after wildfires to quantify the interactions and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Brown
A century of wildfire suppression in the United States has led to increased fuel loading and large-scale ecological change across some of the nation's forests. Land management agencies have responded by increasing the use of prescribed fire and thinning. However, given the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Fernandes, Alexander
We describe the development of a model system for the prediction over the full range in fire behaviour in exotic pine plantation fuel types in relation to environmental conditions. The proposed system integrates a series of sub-models describing surface fire characteristics and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Baker, Hao, Dingley
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Babbitt
Considerable research has been carried out to estimate the chemical composition and the amount of trace gases and particulate matter emitted during short-duration flaming and smoldering combustion of fuels in the fire-prone forest and grassland ecosystems. For other forest…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturtevant, Jakes
Wildland fire knows no political boundaries, nor should efforts to address its risk. Collaboration is not a new idea; many examples of natural resource managers and community groups working together can be found in forest management planning, watershed restoration, and wildland…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGuire, Chapin, Wirth, Apps, Bhatti, Callaghan, Christensen, Clein, Fukuda, Maximov, Onuchin, Shvidenko, Vaganov
From introduction: 'Terrestrial ecosystems of high latitudes occupy approximately one-fourth of the Earth's vegetated surface. Substantial climatic warming has occurred in many high latitude areas during the latter half of the 20th Century (Serreze et al. 2000), and evidence…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holmes, Abt, Huggett, Prestemon
Natural resource economists have addresssed the economic effienciency of expenditures on wildfire mitigation for nearly a century (Gope and Gorte 1979). Beginning with the work of Sparhawk (1925), the theory of efficent wildfire mitigation developed alolng conceptual lines drawn…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cvetkovich, Winter
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES