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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bodí, Martin, Balfour, Santín, Doerr, Pereira, Cerdà, Mataix-Solera
Fire transforms fuels (i.e. biomass, necromass, soil organic matter) into materials with different chemical and physical properties. One of these materials is ash, which is the particulate residue remaining or deposited on the ground that consists of mineral materials and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Godwin, Long, Lahm
Smoke management has become one of the leading challenges facing prescribed fire practitioners in the Southeast and the continued use of prescribed fire in the region may depend on effective smoke and emission mitigation practices. While not a comprehensive list of smoke…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
With more people than ever living in the vicinity of the wildland-urban interface, communicating wildland fire management activities and building trust with the public is paramount for safety. Although the time and resources it takes to build and maintain the public's trust may…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wei, Bevers, Nguyen, Belval
Previous stochastic models in harvest scheduling seldom address explicit spatial management concerns under the influence of natural disturbances. We employ multistage stochastic programming models to explore the challenges and advantages of building spatial optimization models…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kreye, Brewer, Morgan, Varner, Smith, Hoffman, Ottmar
Mastication is an increasingly common fuels treatment that redistributes 'ladder' fuels to the forest floor to reduce vertical fuel continuity, crown fire potential, and fireline intensity, but fuel models do not exist for predicting fire behavior in these fuel types. Recent…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Matthews
The moisture content of dead fuels is an important determinant of many aspects of bushfire behaviour. Understanding the relationships of fuel moisture with weather, fuels and topography is useful for fire managers and models of fuel moisture are an integral component of fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews
The BehavePlus Fire Modeling System is among the most widely used systems for wildland fire prediction. It is designed for use in a range of tasks including wildfire behaviour prediction, prescribed fire planning, fire investigation, fuel hazard assessment, fire model…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This volume offers a scientific assessment of the effects of climatic variability and change on forest resources in the United States. Derived from a report that provides technical input to the 2013 U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the book serves…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pinno, Landhausser, Chow, Quideau, MacKenzie
Forest land reclamation after oil sands mining requires the re-establishment of self-sustaining boreal forest ecosystems consisting of native forest plant species. This greenhouse study examined germination, growth, and nutrient uptake of fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium (L.)…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lehsten, de Groot, Flannigan, George, Harmand, Balzter
Wildfires are a major driver of ecosystem development and contributor to carbon emissions in boreal forests. We analyzed the contribution of fires of different fire size classes to the total burned area and suggest a novel fire characteristic, the characteristic fire size, i.e.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lewis, Lindberg, Schmutz, Bertram
Fires are the major natural disturbance in the boreal forest, and their frequency and intensity will likely increase as the climate warms. Terrestrial nutrients released by fires may be transported to boreal lakes, stimulating increased primary productivity, which may radiate…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Cohen, Finney, Thompson
Recent fire seasons in the western United States are some of the most damaging and costly on record. Wildfires in the wildland-urban interface on the Colorado Front Range, resulting in thousands of homes burned and civilian fatalities, although devastating, are not without…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Börger, Nudds
Understanding the effects of landscape change and environmental variability on ecological processes is important for evaluating resource management policies, such as the emulation of natural forest disturbances. We analyzed time series of detection/nondetection data using…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bond-Lamberty, Rocha, Calvin, Holmes, Wang, Goulden
Most North American forests are at some stage of post-disturbance regrowth, subject to a changing climate, and exhibit growth and mortality patterns that may not be closely coupled to annual environmental conditions. Distinguishing the possibly interacting effects of these…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Catchpole, Catchpole, Rothermel
A series of laboratory fire experiments were conducted in fuel beds consisting of either excelsior (wood wool), or 6.35 mm sticks, or a mixture of these. Tests were done both with and without wind. Various characteristics of the fire, including rate of spread and fireline…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wallace
An extension of the simple ellipse model of a vegetation fire is presented. This facilitates numerical implementation, and can therefore incorporate irregular topographical features and temporal changes in burning conditions. The model has been encoded into an interactive PC…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mees, Strauss, Chase
We describe a mathematical model for the probability that a fireline succeeds in containing a fire. The probability increases as the fireline width increases, and also as the fire's flame length decreases. More interestingly, uncertainties in width and flame length affect the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson
G.M. Byram's energy criterion for forest and wildland fires consists of two equations: one for computing the rate of flow of kinetic energy in the atmosphere due to the wind field (Pw), and one for estimating the rate of conversion of thermal energy to kinetic energy in the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Summarizes much of the geologic, paleoecologic, and oceanographic evidence for global environmental and climactic changes during the last 18,000 years.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Dyrness, Foote
The soils and vegetation of 12 stages of forest succession on the floodplain of the Tanana River are described. Succession begins with the invasion of newly deposited alluvium by willows (Salix spp.) and develops through a willow-alder (Alnus tenuifolia Nutt.) stage to forest…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Serreze, Box, Barry, Walsh
Synoptic activity for the Arctic is examined for the period 1952-1989 using the National Meteorological Center sea level pressure data set. Winter cyclone activity is most common near Iceland, between Svalbard and Scandinavia, the Norwegian and Kara seas, Baffin Bay and the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beer
The results of a number of laboratory tests of wind-driven fires indicate the existence of a characteristic wind speed, U'. The form of the fire spread (V) as a function of mid-flame wind speed (U) differs above and below this characteristic speed. The scatter in field data is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sample, Halofsky, Peterson
Recent policy changes in the USA direct agencies managing federal forests to analyze the potential effects of climate change on forest productivity, water resource protection, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and other values. This paper describes methods developed to (1) assess…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
The FFI ecological monitoring utilities are an integration of FEAT and FIREMON, two respected, science-based programs used for fire effects monitoring on public lands. Funded by the Interagency Fuels Management Committee and developed jointly by the National Park Service and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Houze, Jr.
Cloud dynamics
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES