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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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The fires and fire policy

Schullery
From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The environmental effects of wildfire

McCleese
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Canadian forest fire danger rating system: an overview

Stocks, Lawson, Alexander, Van Wagner, McAlpine, Lynham, Dube
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lodgepole pine and white spruce crown fuel weights predicted from height and crown width

Johnson, Woodward, Titus
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Recent fire history of the northern Quebec biomes

Payette, Morneau, Sirois, Desponts
The recent fire history of northern Quebec biomes (54 000 km2), including the northern Boreal Forest, the southern and northern Forest—Tundra, and the Shrub Tundra, was documented by examining size and dates of 20th century wildfires using tree ring techniques. Results showed…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prediction of forest-floor moisture content on jack pine cutovers

Chrosciewicz
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire 1988--a year to remember

Hartigan
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Documenting wildfire behavior: the 1988 Brereton Lake fire, Manitoba

Hirsch
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Yellowstone fires

Romme, Despain
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modeling seasonal variation in daily people-caused forest fire occurrence

Martell, Bevilacqua, Stocks
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Computing a better fire forecast

Kintisch
Scientists and firefighters ponder new ways to predict the spread of wildfire as the U.S. West faces ever more potent blazes.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Quantifying the effect of fuel reduction treatments on fire behavior in boreal forests

Butler, Ottmar, Rupp, Jandt, Miller, Howard, Schmoll, Theisen, Vihnanek, Jimenez
Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinning) fuel treatments have become the preferred strategy of many fire managers and agencies for reducing fire hazard in boreal forests. This study attempts to characterize the effectiveness of four fuel treatments through…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mega-fires, tipping points and ecosystem services: managing forests and woodlands in an uncertain future

Adams
Global evidence posits that we are on the cusp of fire-driven 'tipping points' in some of the world's most important woody biomes including savannah woodlands, temperate forests, and boreal forests, with consequences of major changes in species dominance and vegetation type. The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Crown Fire Behavior in Conifer Forests Workshop

Alexander, Vaillant, Cruz
This workshop was held in conjunction with the 4th Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, 18-22 February 2013, Raleigh, NC. The goal of this workshop was to provide participants with a summary of the results emanating from the Joint Fire Science Program sponsored project "Crown…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Geographic information systems: providing information for wildland fire planning

Hamilton, Salazar, Palmer
Controlling wildfires within the wildland/urban interface has proven to be the most complex challenge facing wildland fire agencies. Although program improvements to increase the efficiency of interface suppression efforts have been suggested, the availability of information…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Relative humidity measurement for fire danger rating in Canada

Flannigan, Litwin
Wet and dry bulb temperatures from ventilated and non-ventilated screens can be used to obtain realistic values of relative humidity provided the appropriate psychometric coefficient is used. However, relative humidity from non-ventilated screens are subject to significant error…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Growth of buoyancy-induced longitudinal vortex pairs in a laminar flow

Smith
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Yellowstone wildfire of 1988 and what really happened to the birdlife

McEneaney
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning guidelines in the northern Great Plains

Higgins, Kruse, Piehl
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The long history of fire in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem

Romme, Despain
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A short-term predictor of satellite-observed fire activity in the North American boreal forest: toward improving the prediction of smoke emissions

Peterson, Hyer, Wang
A statistical model, based on numerical weather prediction (NWP), is developed to predict the subsequent day's satellite observations of fire activity in the North American boreal forest during the fire season (24-h forecast). In conjunction with the six components of the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

The effect of smoke emission amount on changes in cloud properties and precipitation: a case study of Canadian boreal wildfires of 2007

Lu, Sokolik
We investigate the influence of wildfire smoke aerosols on cloud microphysics and precipitation using a coupled aerosol-cloud microphysics-meteorology model WRF-Chem-SMOKE. The Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm products are used to compute 'online' hourly size- and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Diagnosing Santa Ana Winds in Southern California with Synoptic-Scale Analysis

Abatzoglou, Barbero, Nauslar
Santa Ana winds (SAW) are among the most notorious fire-weather conditions in the United States and are implicated in wildfire and wind hazards in Southern California. This study employs large-scale reanalysis data to diagnose SAW through synoptic-scale dynamic and thermodynamic…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Climate change and wildfires

de Groot, Flannigan, Stocks
Wildland fire regimes are primarily driven by climate/weather, fuels and people. All of these factors are dynamic and their variable interactions create a mosaic of fire regimes around the world. Climate change will have a substantial impact on future fire regimes in many global…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Climate change tipping points: a point of no return?

Summer 2012 saw records fall for intensity of drought and number, size, and cost of wildfires in the Central and Western United States, and the climate forecast calls for more of the same in the near and distant future. When wildfire breaks out, emergency responders decide their…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS