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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McAlpine, Wotton
Forest fire perimeters, in both Canada and the United States are predicted with an elliptical growth model, or acellular growth model, that emulates an ellipse. Recently it has been shown that the fractal dimension, a measure of line "wiggliness", anda subdivision ofthe science…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lawson, Armitage, Dalrymple
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adkins, Bleau, Duvarney
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Eenigenburg, Main
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fujioka, Meisner, McCutchan
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch, Hoskins, Hoskins
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin, Gordon, Gutierrez, Lee, Molina-Terrén, Schroeder, Sapsis, Stephens, Chambers
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butler
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Omi, Rideout, Stone, Botti
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Qu, Omi
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kreileman, Bouwman
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tirmenstein, Long, Heward
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 2012 wildfire season isn't over yet, but already this year is shaping up to be the one of the worst on record in the American West. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, with nearly two months still to go in the fire season, the total area already burned this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire simulation models that consider the complex dynamics of weather, fuels, and terrain are essential to forecasting fire behavior. A growing number of such models are available, so understanding the differences in their predictions and sensitivity to drivers of fire behavior…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bonnicksen
There are four major questions affecting the future of ecological restoration. The first and most serious question is philosophical. Should we attempt to restore ecosystems? Some people want to separate humans from nature because they believe that human intervention is bad or…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This conference brought together scientists and managers from federal, state, and local agencies, along with private-sector interests, to examine key concepts involving sustainable ecological systems, and ways in which to apply these concepts to ecosystem management. Session…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Brubaker
Fossil pollen data, as illustrated by isopoll and isochrone maps, document the complex late Quaternary history of tundra and boreal forest development in northcentral Alaska. Major plant taxa behaved independently over time, resulting in substantial differences in the vegetation…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vandersall
The rheological properties of forest and brush land fire retardant solutions significantly affect their performance during and following aerial discharge and subsequent distribution within the fuel ladder. The degree of dispersion, the integrity of the retardant cloud, the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Carter, Milton
The performance of internal combustion engines used in fire fighting equipment can be affected by the fireground ambient conditions. Both gasoline (SI) and diesel (CI) engines can suffer significant power losses due to high temperatures and reduced oxygen in the intake air…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bilgili, Methven
A state-dependent dynamic crown fuel model is proposed. The model is a distance-dependent tree model. The model simulates crown characteristics such as foliage weight, crown base height, crown length and crown closure. The model is based on simplified dimensional growth…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mercer, Weber
A model for the plume above a line fire in a cross wind is constructed. This problem is shown to reduce to numerically solving a system of 6 coupled ordinary differential equations for given initial conditions that depend upon the fire characteristics. The model is valid above…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maclean
A writer's reflection on the stories of fatal fire - and why we must remember.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nguyen
Forest harvest scheduling has been modeled using deterministic and stochastic programming models. Past models seldom address explicit spatial forest management concerns under the influence of natural disturbances. In this research study, we employ multistage full recourse…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES