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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Clearwater, Nifinluri, van Gardingen
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeQuire, Hunter
From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Staller
From the text ... '..., in today's world with imcreasing populations, and more people living in the wildland urban interface, prescribed burn practitioners must put more emphasis on smoke management. If we don't manage our smoke and the resulting negative impacts, then the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steufer
The WFR-Chem model can produce valuable smoke emissions and fire spread information along with up to a 72 hour smoke forecast. This model can be used by fire and resouce managers, city and borough personnel and others. Feedback is needed for improved graphics and output.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Henderson, Johnston
Exposure to forest fire smoke is episodic, which makes its health effects challenging to study. We review the newest contributions to a growing literature on acute respiratory outcomes.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg, Hardy, Ottmar, Snell, Acheson, Peterson, Seamon, Lahm, Wade
From the text...'Major policy initiatives and implementation of new management strategies are currently underway in both air resource and fire management. Land managers are rapidly expanding the use of fire to manage ecosystems, while air resource managers are accelerating…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coles, Conlon, Cotton, Eisenstadt, Goldfarb, Hutchison, Joy, Wolter
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davies, Unam
Atmospheric composition, local climate and sapling gas exchange were monitored to assess the short-term effects of smoke-haze from the 1997 Indonesian forest fires. Atmospheric concentrations of particulate matter, SO2, CO, CH4 and CO2, and relative humidity were elevated, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Porterie, Loraud, Morvan, Larini
A computational procedure for predicting the buoyant plume above a line fire in a cross wind is reported. The present model takes into account the interaction between the plume and the surrounding flow by solving the two-dimensional equations for the conservation of mass,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Handbook for criteria pollutant inventory development: a beginner's guide for point and area sources
This document will help state, local, and tribal air pollution control agency personnel compile an inventory of criteria pollutant emissions from stationary (point and area) sources. The information contained in this document is intended to serve as a reference guide only, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randall, Harr
Managing smoke produced by prescribed fires has, in recent years, become a critical consideration when planning a prescribed fire event. In some situations, planning for smoke management may be more complicated than planning for the prescribed fire itself. Considerations such as…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raffuse, Craig, Larkin, Strand, Sullivan, Wheeler, Solomon
Plume injection height influences plume transport characteristics, such as range and potential for dilution. We evaluated plume injection height from a predictive wildland fire smoke transport model over the contiguous United States (U.S.) from 2006 to 2008 using satellite-…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fernández-Berni, Carmona-Galán, Martínez-Carmona, Rodríguez-Vázquez
Wireless sensor networks constitute a powerful technology particularly suitable for environmental monitoring. With regard to wildfires, they enable low-cost fine-grained surveillance of hazardous locations like wildland-urban interfaces. This paper presents work developed during…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning, are often challenged…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goode, Yokelson, Susott, Ward
The trace gas emissions from six biomass fires, including three grass fires, were measured using a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer coupled to an open-path, multipass cell (OP-FTIR). The quantified emissions consisted of carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, water vapor,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, French, Ottmar
In recent years, wildfires have emerged as an important part of the global environment. Carbon released from fires during combustion alters the global carbon balance. Smoke emissions are a health hazard to nearby communities [Wegesser et al., 2009], can impair air quality and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trelles, McGrattan, Baum
The effect that the wind's vertical variation has on fire plume behaviour is investigated. A parabolized set of governing equations are discretized using finite differences to arrive at the numerical model. Lagrangian particles are used to visualize the flow, account for…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Hoy
A method was developed to estimate carbon consumed during wildland fires in interior Alaska based on medium-spatial scale data (60 m cell size) generated on a daily basis. Carbon consumption estimates were developed for 41 fire events in the large fire year of 2004 and 34 fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McCaffrey, Olsen
As part of a Joint Fire Science Program project, a team of social scientists reviewed existing fire social science literature to develop a targeted synthesis of scientific knowledge on the following questions: 1. What is the public's understanding of fire's role in the ecosystem…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
This paper is the second of two reviewing scientific literature from 100 years of research addressing interactions between the atmosphere and fire behaviour. These papers consider research on the interactions between the fuels burning at any instant and the atmosphere, and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hesseln, Rideout
Evolving wildfire management policies are aimed at more comprehensive treatments of current wildland fire management problems. Key policies are identified that affect wildfire and fuels management. Policies are discussed in the context of institutional factors such as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beji, Verstockt, Van de Walle, Merci
The concept of numerical simulations for real-time Numerical Fire Forecasting is illustrated for the case of natural smoke filling of a large-scale atrium in case of fire. The numerical simulations are performed within the Inverse Zone Modelling framework. The technique consists…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robertson
The purpose of the workshop was for research scientists, air quality specialists, policy administrators, and others to present and discuss recent advances in research relating to estimation of emission factors for particulate matter (PM) and its constituents (organic carbon,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES