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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hinzman, Fukuda, Sandberg, Chapin, Dash
The FROSTFIRE research project conducted a prescribed burn of a 970 ha watershed in interior Alaska. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental burn of a watershed and the most thoroughly documented prescribed fire in history. Although extensive fire research…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
An approach is presented for approximating the expected spread rate of fires that burn across 2-dimensional landscapes with random fuel patterns. The method calculates a harmonic mean spread rate across a small 2-dimensional grid that allows the fire to move forward and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fernandes, Botelho
Wildfire hazard abatement is one of the major reasons to use prescribed burning. Computer simulation, case studies, and analysis of the fire regimes in the presence of active prescribed burning programs in forest and shrubland generally indicate that this fuel management too…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ferguson, Collins, Ruthford, Fukuda
A comprehensive evaluation of the vertical structure of a smoldering smoke plume was afforded by a unique combination of tethersonde measurements (from ground level to about 400 m above ground level (AGL) or 274-674 m above sea level (AGL)), lidar sounding (from about 1.5 to 5…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dunham, Young, Gresswell, Rieman
Our limited understanding of the short and long-term effects of fire on fish contributes to considerable uncertainty in assessments of the risks and benefits of fire management alternatives. A primary concern among the many potential effects of fire is the effects of fire and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dissing, Verbyla
The relationship between lightning strike density, vegetation, and elevation was investigated at three different spatial scales: (i) interior Alaska (~630,000 km^2), (ii) six longitudinal transects (~100,000 km^2), and (iii) 17 individual physiographic subregions (~50,000 km^2)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Wakimoto
The initiation of crown fires in conifer stands was modelled through logistic regression analysis by considering as independent variables a basic physical descriptor of the fuel complex structure and selected components of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Alexander, Wakimoto
Application of crown fire behavior models in fire management decision-making have been limited by the difficulty of quantitatively describing fuel complexes, specifically characteristics of the canopy fuel stratum. To estimate canopy fuel stratum characteristics of four broad…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bertschi, Yokelson, Goode, Ward, Babbitt, Susott, Hao
We adopt a working definition of residual smoldering combustion (RSC) as biomass combustion that produces emissions that are not lofted by strong fire-induced convection. RSC emissions can be produced for up to several weeks after the passage of a flame front and they are mostly…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Loftsgaarden, Bradshaw
Methods are presented for analyzing the relationship between fire danger rating indexes and fire activity as a means of evaluating the performance of fire danger rating systems. Percentile analysis is used to examine the data itself; logistic regression provides a means for…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wang, Bond-Lamberty, Gower
The objective of this study was to quantify carbon (C) distribution for boreal black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) stands comprising a fire chronosequence in northern Manitoba, Canada. The experimental design included seven well-drained (dry) and seven poorly-drained (wet)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Colman, Linn
In order to study the interactions between the important processes within a wildland fire, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the USDA Forest Service are continuing to develop the HIGRAD/FIRETEC wildfire behavior model. HIGRAD/FIRETEC is a coupled atmosphere/wildfire behavior…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS