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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ottmar, Prichard, Anderson
Consume is a user-friendly software application designed for resource managers and scientists with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. Land managers and researchers input fuel characteristics, lighting patterns, fuel conditions, and meteorological…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bradshaw, Jolly, Monahan
WFAS, the Wildland Fire Assessment System, is an internet-based information system. The current implementation provides a national view of weather and fire potential, including national fire danger and weather maps and satellite-derived 'Greenness' maps. WFAS was first made…
Year: 2008
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
WeatherBrief®-NET is a subscription service provided by WeatherBank, offering up to 40,000 weather products. WeatherBank provides weather data and products on a personal level with access through three subscription plans. The WeatherBrief®-NET Commercial Account offers over 40,…
Year: 2008
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Weather Information Management System (WIMS) is a system to collect, store and manage current weather information, and to provide access to historical data. WIMS replaced the Administrative Forest Fire Information Retrieval and Management System (AFFIRMS) as the host for the…
Year: 2003
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Vaisala Thunderstorm Information System is a modular lightning detection system designed to meet total lightning and cloud-to-ground lightning information needs in meteorology, hydrology, electric power distribution, aviation, defense and telecommunications. Lightning is a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
A module of NFMAS, allows the user to analyze historical wildland fire occurrence for wildland fire planning. PCHA99 allows the user to import fire and weather data for the desired planning unit, review and edit the data, generate fire summaries for further fire planning, and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
Lightning causes most wildfires in the western United States, and is a major cause of fire elsewhere in the U.S. Because most lightning occurs with significant precipitation, however, simple predictions of Lightning Activity Level (LAL) do not accurately determine fire ignition…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single source for wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire use and incident management terminology commonly used by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and its Working Teams. The NWCG has directed that…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The National Fire danger Rating System is a set of computer programs and algorithms that allow land management agencies to estimate today's or tomorrow's fire danger for a given rating area. NFDRS characterizes fire danger by evaluating the approximate upper limit of fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Ervin, Rorabaugh
KCFAST allows users to retrieve historical weather and fire data from the National Interagency Fire Management Integrated Database (NIFMID) hosted at the USDA National Information Technology Center (NITC).
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Web has become an important resource for meteorological information. Satellite imagery, forecast models, radar, and observations are available on numerous sites. A standard Web browser provides a basic forecasting capability to a meteorologist. FX-Net is a meteorological PC…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The FORBS Program is based on the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS). It utilizes existing Personal Computer Historical Analysis (PCHA), Interagency Initial Attack Assessment (IIAA), and Arc View processes. FORBS is tied to the Suppression Analysis developed in…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Daigle
Firestorm Pro is a wildland firefighting simulation program. You act as an Incident Commander. Use the four ground crews to cut firelines for structure protection, dispatch the two air tankers to drop retardant, slowing the fire's advance and protecting the flanks of the ground…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
When fighting a wildfire, it is always important to make decisions based on current and expected fire behavior. That small fire could suddenly blow up (it is a fact that small fires cause more injuries than large fires). If you have a large fire on your hands, you want to know…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Built-in support for data collection from FTS weather stations, Campbell Scientific, and all stations transmitting with GOES. Manual weather data input and powerful automated import tools for other computer-based data sources.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
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 (NFDRS) or the Canadian Fire Danger Rating System (CAN). Fire occurrence data can also…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Schlobohm
The Fire Danger PocketCard is a method of communicating information on fire danger to firefighters. The objective is to lead to greater awareness of fire danger and subsequently increased firefighter safety. The PocketCard provides a description of seasonal changes in fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Finney
FARSITE has been incorporated into FlamMap and is no longer supported separately or available for download.
Farsite is a fire growth simulation model that automatically computes wildfire growth and behavior for long time periods under heterogeneous conditions of…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Anderson
Consume is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption and emissions from the burning of logged units, piled debris, and natural fuels based on…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
BlueSky is a modeling framework. BlueSky modularly links a variety of independent models of fire information, fuel loading, fire consumption, fire emissions, and smoke dispersion. At each modeling step, BlueSky has several different specific models from which to choose. BlueSky…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bevins, Heinsch, Tirmenstein, Noonan, Bartlette, Scott, Seli, Kelley, Carlton, Custer
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire behavior, fire effects, and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Automated Lightning Mapping System (ALMS) allows you to download near real time lightning location information from the Bureau of Land Management lightning data server on the Internet and then view thatdata using ArcMap 9.x.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Allows automated data entry into Incident Command System Form ICS-209, Incident Status Summary. Transmits summaries from reporting units to regional and national databases. Improves timely and complete reporting for use in strategic decision making. Generates automated ICS-209…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The AFS Fire Weather Database provides access to fire weather information from a variety of sources such as RAWS (Remote Automated Weather Stations) and manually observed weather data. Output formats include display of hourly weather station sensor data, recent sensor data for a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES