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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Potter
The combustion of woody materials releases significant amounts of moisture into the atmosphere. The energy required to evaporate this moisture is accounted for in the computation of fire energy release, as a loss from overall combustion energy. The moisture and energy are not…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Forthofer, Butler, Shannon, Finney, Bradshaw, Stratton
It is readily acknowledged that wind speed and direction can have a major influence on fire intensity and rate of spread. Accurate modeling of fire behavior requires either assumptions about the wind flow acting on the flames, or modeling of the flow field. Simple surface…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coen
This presentation describes the further development and application of a coupled atmosphere-fire model that uses a sophisticated high-resolution meteorological numerical model to predict the local winds which are then used as input to the prediction of fire spread. The heat and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Varner
In 2004, there is a new ICS standard for mapping fires using ArcGIS and storing the data in a Personal GeoDataBase. By storing the data in a PGeoDB, it removes all of the complexity of storing different shapes for every different part of the fire in different folders and then…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goodman
During the summer of 1999, geospatial technologies became prevalent in wildland fire management. A group of interagency wildland fire geospatial specialist proposed to the Information Resource Management Working Team (IRMWT) under the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quayle, Lannom, Finco, Norton, Warnick
The Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) in Salt Lake City, Utah uses imagery acquired by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor to produce wildland fire maps for the United States. The 'Active Fire Maps' provide a synoptic view…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kremens, Faulring, Hardy
We have measured the surface temperature and emissivity of the forest floor as a function of time after the passage of the flaming fire front. This information is essential for remote sensing of wildland fires from airborne and satellite platforms. The goal of this project is to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greenfield, Smith, Chamberlain
For several years the USDA Forest Service has been making advances to the airborne thermal infrared imaging capabilities for wildland fire detection and mapping. The new 'Phoenix' system represents the first time that a high productivity, digital, geo-corrected product will be…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Querciagrossa-Sand, Stutler, Goldwater, Bennett
The National Weather Service (NWS) has been a major contributor to the success of the U.S. Wildfire Program for over 67 years. During that time, Incident Meteorologists, (IMET's) have delivered predictive services that have allowed Incident Managers to fight fires aggressively…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nester, Vanbussem
FXNet is the latest technology Incident Meteorologists (IMETS) have at their disposal to collect meteorological data while onsite at wildland fires. During the fire season of 2002 FXNet was used in select areas to test the equipment and get the IMET's feedback on how it could be…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Perminov
The problem of the initial stage of a high altitude radiant energy source effect on the underlying surface of the Earth covered with the forest vegetation is discussed below. The objective of the present research is to define deimensions of the ignition zone and to study…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goodrick, Cunningham, Hussaini, Xia, Linn
A compressible, non-hydrostatic model is used to investigate atmospheric circulations induced by annular surface heat sources in a vertically sheared crossflow. Annular heat sources are used to approximate the influence of a wildland fire on the atmospheric flow. A series of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Amiro, Logan, Wotton, Flannigan, Stocks, Todd, Martell
The weather experienced during large fires (> 200 ha in area) was analyzed for Canada from 1959 to 1999. Maximum values of Canadian Fire Weather Index parameters were calculated using interpolated daily weather data for each fire. Depending on ecozone, the means of parameters…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morehouse, Brown, Christopherson, Crimmins, Garfin, Orr, Overpeck, Yool, Swetnam
Wildland fire regimes in the southwestern United States are a product of complex interactions among climate, vegetation and fuels conditions, fire history, societal policies, and human behavior. Wildfire Alternatives (WALTER), an interdisciplinary fire science initiative at the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Skinner
Historical relationships (1959-1999), as determined by previous studies, between monthly mid-tropospheric flow at 500 mb and area burned in Canada are examined by ecozone. Future changes in 500 mb heights, as suggested by a range of four IPCC suggested forcing scenarios from the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baranyi
Enhancements in GIS technology will yield greater functionality for the fire community to make better decisions for wildland fire planning and response. These advances will provide insight into how to best solve old problems with novel GIS technology. The concept of a…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jenkins, Krueger, Sun
We present a simple parcel model, a one dimensional cloud parcel model, that features entrainment, conversion of cloud condensation to rain drops, cloud water and rain water drag, and downdraft evaporative cooling. The simple parcel model is used to describe the ascent and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cunningham, Linn, Reisner
The effects of vertically sheared winds on the behavior of wildland fires are examined via simulations of a coupled atmosphere-fire model. Specifically, the HIGRAD/FIRETEC model developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is employed to explore the dependence of fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor, Bright, Bothwell, Carbin, Naden
Recently, forecasters at the Storm Prediction Center, in Norman, OK, have begun using short range ensemble forecast (SREF) output as guidance for their national fire weather outlooks. The SPC forecasters outlook critical and extremely critical fire weather areas, for a 24-48…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schranz, Madine
FX-Net is a weather forecasting PC workstation that provides access to the basic display capability of an AWIPS workstation via the Internet. Bandwidth limitations are addressed by using new data compression techniques along with multithreaded client-side processing and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delgado, Mathewson, Horel
During the last couple of years and stemming from the year 2000 fire plan, Land Management Agencies hired 20 meteorologists nationwide to develop fire weather programs at Geogrpahic Area Coordination Centers and to introduce and implement new programs in support of the fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nikolov, Zeller
Reliable forecasting of regional weather and wind flow patterns is critical for effective fighting of wildland fires and operational management of prescribed burns. Accurate forecast of future wind fields, relative humidity, and stability are essential for predicting fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ruminski, Simko, Kibler, McNamara, Kasheta
The Hazard Mapping System (HMS) is a multiplatform remote sensing approach to detecting fires and smoke over the US and adjacent areas of Canada and Mexico. This system is an integral part of the Satellite Services Division's near realtime hazards detection and mitigation…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmidt, Prins
Since August of 2000 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) have been used to detect and monitor biomass burning in the Western Hemisphere on a half-hourly basis using the Wildfire Automated Biomass…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Howard, McKinley
Landsat imagery have been archived since 1972. These data provide an opportunity evaluate historical fires and review the recovery of the burned landscape. These data provide useful insights for management and planning. Landsat-based historical fire atlases have been compiled…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS