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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Trigg
Calculated values of precipitation effectiveness index and temperature efficiency index for 48 weather observation stations on the Alaska mainland are used to delineate areas that have different climatic subclassifications during the wildfire season of April through September.…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barclay, Li, Hawkes, Benson
A Monte-Carlo simulation was constructed to determine the effects of fire frequency and size and of habitat heterogeneity on the equilibrium age distribution of a forest. We used yield tables for lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Dougl.) in the interior of British…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Balice
Weather and climate contribute to the multidecadal, seasonal, and daily cycles of the potential for fire ignitions and for the severity of fires. We used a long-term dataset of weather parameters to characterize comparatively homogeneous periods, or subseasons, within the fire…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kang, Kimball, Running
We used a terrestrial ecosystem process model, BIOME-BGC, to investigate historical climate change and fire disturbance effects on regional carbon and water budgets within a 357,500 km2 portion of the Canadian boreal forest. Historical patterns of increasing atmospheric CO2,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huntington, Trainor, Natcher, Huntington, DeWilde, Chapin
Community workshops are widely used tools for collaborative research on social-ecological resilience in indigenous communities. Although results have been reported in many publications, few have reflected explicitly on the workshop itself, and specifically on understanding what…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeWilde, Chapin
Wildfire is the major natural agent of disturbance in interior Alaska. We examined the magnitude of human impact on fire by comparing fire regime between individual 1-km2 grid cells designated for fire suppression with lands where fires are allowed to burn naturally. Two-thirds…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ali, Taylor, Inubushi
CO2 efflux from tropical peat swamp substrates was measured under three different land uses (selectively logged forest, recently burned and cleared forest, and agriculture) in Jambi Province, eastern Sumatra over a six-month period that incorporated parts of both the major wet…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gavin, Hu, Lertzman, Corbett
Forest fire occurrence is affected by multiple controls that operate at local to regional scales. At the spatial scale of forest stands, regional climatic controls may be obscured by local controls (e.g., stochastic ignitions, topography, and fuel loads), but the long-term role…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kochtubajda, Flannigan, Gyakum, Stewart, Logan, Nguyen
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Neill, Campanelli, Lupu, Thulasiraman, Reid, Aube, Neary, Kaminski, McConnell
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Douglas
The application of weather modification techniques as a fire control tool was field tested in Alaska during the summers of 1969 and 1970. The 1969 trial was primarily exploratory. Data gathered indicated clouds or cloud-systems exist in interior Alaska which are amenable to…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swift
A short history of the fire weather service is presented with a report on progress made under the 'Federal Plan for a National Fire Weather Service.' The highlights of the plan and its application to the requirements of forest and range management interests in Alaska are…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
Fire ecology is discussed in relation to basic ecological processes; the characteristics of the fire environment are reviewed. Lightning and lightning storms are considered as the primary natural cause of fires in nature. The nature of fire and its relationship to plants,…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shakesby, Doerr
Wildfire can lead to considerable hydrological and geomorphological change, both directly by weathering bedrock surfaces and changing soil structure and properties, and indirectly through the effects of changes to the soil and vegetation on hydrological and geomorphological…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Villalobos-Pietrini, Amador-Munoz, Waliszewski, Hernandez-Mena, Munive-Colin, Gomez-Arroyo, Bravo-Cabrera, Frias-Villegas
A year-long sampling and analysis of 24 h airborne particles equal to or less than 10 mm (
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trent, Cisneros
From the text ... 'Before lighting a prescribed fire on the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests, fire managers rely on Tom Robison to check air quality in several of the nearby small towns. Using data from a network of real-time smoke monitors, Robison helps fire managers…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Willis, Birks
Ecosystems change in response to factors such as climate variability, invasions, and wildfires. Most records used to assess such change are based on short-term ecological data or satellite imagery spanning only a few decades. In many instances it is impossible to disentangle…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rupp, Olson, Adams, Dale, Joly, Henkelman, Collins, Starfield
Caribou are an integral component of high-latitude ecosystems and represent a major subsistence food source for many northern people. The availability and quality of winter habitat is critical to sustain these caribou populations. Caribou commonly use older spruce woodlands with…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McKenzie, O'Neill, Larkin, Norheim
Visibility impairment from regional haze is a significant problem throughout the continental United States. A substantial portion of regional haze is produced by smoke from prescribed and wildland fires. Here we describe the integration of four simulation models, an array of GIS…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mason, Trentmann, Winterrath, Yokelson, Christian, Carlson, Warner, Wolfe, Andreae
Results from two independently developed biomass-burning smoke plume models are compared. Model results were obtained for the temporal evolution of two nascent smoke plumes originating from significantly different fire environments (an Alaskan boreal forest and an African…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ohlson, Berry, Gray, Blackwell, Hawkes
This paper provides an example of the practical application of multi-attribute trade-off analysis (MATA) to wildfire management. The MATA approach supports more informed decision-making because it exposes important trade-offs among competing management objectives (requiring…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Berg, Henry, Fastie, De Volder, Matsuoka
When spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) thin a forest canopy, surviving trees grow more rapidly for decades until the canopy closes and growth is suppressed through competition.We used measurements of tree rings to detect such growth releases and reconstruct the history of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fauria, Johnson
[1] Large lightning wildfires in Canada and Alaska account for most of the area burnt and are main determiners of the age mosaic of the landscape. Such fires occur when positive midtroposphere height anomalies persist > 10 days during the fire season. Midtroposphere anomalies…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rowe
From the text ... 'In this paper I want to review certain aspects of the fire ecology of the spruces, chiefly white spruce, in the boreal forest area from the prairie provinces to the North West Territories, Yukon, and adjacent Alaska.'
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder
From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS