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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Dietenberger
Piloted ignition behavior of materials, particularly wood products, during transitions between heating regimes is measured and modeled in a cone calorimetry (ISO 5660) heating environment. These include (1) effect of material thickness, density, moisture content, and paint…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis, Miller
We developed a GIS model, BurnPro, to estimate the annual probability of burning for every pixel on a raster landscape. BurnPro uses historic ignition locations, fuel models, topography, and historic weather patterns to estimate the likelihood of burning using a least-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
Several fuel treatment demonstration trials or case studies were carried out as part of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), Northwest Territories: 1) demonstrating the value of fully leafed-out trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) stands as fuelbreaks…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Fuel treatment effects on the growth and behavior of large wildland fires depend on the spatial arrangements of individual treatment units. Evidence of this is found in burn patterns of wildland fires. During planning stages, fire simulation is most often used to anticipate…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Lenihan
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kochtubajda, Flannigan, Gyakum, Stewart
Forest fires are a common disturbance within the boreal ecosystem of the Mackenzie Basin during the warm season. These fires threaten human life, property, and valuable commercial resources, and pose the greatest danger for fire managers. Fire is the dominant disturbance regime…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Logan, Flannigan, Wotton, Stocks
Fires play an important role in Canadian forests and are largely influenced by the weather. Any changes in future climate may lead to dramatic changes in future fire activity. We examined what changes in climate might occur due to increased levels of greenhouse gases in the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van der Werf, Randerson, Collatz, Giglio, Kasibhatla, Arellano, Olsen, Kasischke
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Cary, Davies, Flannigan, Gardner, Lavorel, Lenihan, Li, Rupp
A classification of spatial simulation models of fire and vegetation dynamics (landscape fire succession models or LFSMs) is presented. The classification was developed to provide a foundation for comparing models and to help identify the appropriate fire and vegetation…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hoadley, Westrick, Ferguson, Goodrick, Bradshaw, Werth
Previous studies of model performance at varying resolutions have focused on winter storms or isolated convective events. Little attention has been given to the static high pressure situations that may lead to severe wildfire outbreaks. This study focuses on such an event so as…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girardin, Tardif, Flannigan, Wotton, Bergeron
Trends and periodicities in summer drought severity are investigated on a network of Canadian Drought Code (CDC) monthly average indices extending from central Quebec to western Manitoba and covering the instrumental period 1913-1998. The relationship and coherency between CDC…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fitzgerald
The summer of 2004 was a hot and smoky one for Alaska's Interior, focusing residents' attention on fire management issues. Natural regeneration of the boreal forest after fire literally has made the forests that are managed today. Forestry professor Scott Rupp and others are…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fall, Fortin, Kneeshaw, Yamasaki, Messier, Bouthillier, Smyth
At the landscape scale, one of the key indicators of sustainable forest management is the age-class distribution of stands, since it provides a coarse synopsis of habitat potential, structural complexity, and stand volume, and it is directly modified by timber extraction and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Detecting changes in arctic tundra plant communities in response to warming over decadal time scales
Detecting the response of vegetation to climate forcing as distinct from spatial and temporal variability may be difficult, if not impossible, over the typical duration of most field studies. We analyzed the spatial and interannual variability of plant functional type biomass…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elliot
The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) is a physically based erosion model for applications to dryland and irrigated agriculture, rangeland, and forests. U.S. Forest Service (USFS) experience showed that WEPP was not being adapted because of the difficulty in building files…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Densmore, Parminter, Stevens
To assess recent management practices, post-harvest levels of coarse woody debris (CWD) were measured in the Southern Interior and Northern Interior forest regions of British Columbia. A simple input and decay model was used to estimate the volumes of CWD that might be present…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Wakimoto
The unknowns in wildland fire phenomenology lead to a simplified empirical model approach for predicting the onset of crown fires in live coniferous forests on level terrain. Model parameterization is based on a data set (n=71) generated from conducting outdoor experimental…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Costa, Sandberg
A mathematical model is developed describing the natural smoldering of logs. It is considered the steady one-dimensional propagation of infinitesimally thin fronts of drying, pyrolysis, and char oxidation in a horizontal semi-infinite log. Expressions for the burn rates,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Goward
Remote sensing, geographic information systems, and modeling have combined to produce a virtual explosion of growth in ecological investigations and applications that are explicitly spatial and temporal. Of all remotely sensed data, those acquired by landsat sensors have played…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Wildland-urban fire destruction depends on homes igniting and thus requires an examination of the ignition requirements. A physical-theoretical model, based on severe case conditions and ideal heat transfer characteristics, estimated wood wall ignition occurrence from flame…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chew, Stalling, Moeller
Managers of public lands are increasingly faced with making planning decisions for dynamic landscapes with conflicting objectives. A modeling system has been designed to serve as a decision support system to help managers and resource specialists integrate the available…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brooks, D'Antonio, Richardson, Grace, Keeley, DiTomaso, Hobbs, Pellant, Pyke
Plant invasions are widely recognized as significant threats to biodiversity conservation worldwide. One way invasions can affect native ecosystems is by changing fuel properties, which can in turn affect fire behavior and, ultimately, alter fire regime characteristics such as…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Thomas
Can wildland fire behavior really be predicted? That depends on how accurate you expect the prediction to be. The minute-by-minute movement of a fire will probably never be predictable- certainly not from weather conditions forecasted many hours before the fire. Nevertheless,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Butler, Cohen, Latham, Schuette, Sopko, Shannon, Jimenez, Bradshaw
This study presents spatially and temporally resolved measurements of air temperatures and radiant energy fluxes in a boreal forest (Pinus banksiana-Picea mariana) crown fire in Northwest Territories, Canada. Measurements were collected 3.1, 6.2, 9.2, 12.3, and 13.8 m above the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bond-Lamberty, Wang, Gower
We quantified the contributions of root respiration (RC) and heterotrophic respiration to soil surface CO2 flux (RS) by comparing trenched and untrenched plots in well-drained and poorly drained stands of a black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) fire chronosequence in northern…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES