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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Furman
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viereck, Foote, Dyrness, Van Cleve, Kane, Seifert
Four units totaling 1 hectare in area were burned during the summer of 1976 in the Washington Creek experimental fire site near Fairbanks, Alaska. Original vegetation on the site consisted of an unevenly spaced stand of black spruce approximately 70 years old, with an understory…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vogl
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balasubramanian, Victor, Chun
The results of chemical analyses of precipitation samples collected in Singapore between August 1997 and July 1998 are presented. Major inorganic and organic ions were determined in 169 rain samples collected using an automated wet-only sampler. The daily sample pH values ranged…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sorbel
The Kenai Lake Fire burned north of Kenai Lake on the Seward Ranger District of the Chugach National Forest from June 25 through July 8, 2001. The fire’s size was approximately 3260 acres. This assessment uses the FireFamily+ and RERAP (Rare Event Risk Assessment Process)…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
From the Summary...'For many projects a simple model often provides as good information as a more complex model. Regulations, however, may dictate the level of modeling required for each project. Other times, community values will determine the level of effort needed to…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson
From the Summary...'Managing smoke in ways that prevent serious impact to sensitive areas from single burns or multiple burns occurring simultaneously requires knowledge of the weather conditions that will affect smoke emissions, trajectories, and dispersion. Not only is it…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McLin, Springer, Lane
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hély, Flannigan, Bergeron, McRae
Spring and summer simulations were carried out using the Canadian Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) and U.S. BEHAVE systems to study the role of vegetation and weather on fire behavior in the mixedwood boreal forest. Stands at Lake Duparquet (Quebec, Canada) were characterized as…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Graham, Young, Redmond
This report provides a set of Canadian forest fire statistics for the period 1961 to 1966. Data for 43,796 fires from every fire Control agency in Canada were processed and stored on magnetic tape. This report contains statistics on fire occurrence and fire suppression. Under…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text... 'This initial release of these Guidelines reflects the efforts of the Fire Management Task Force and subsequent review by park, regional and WASO staff. It represents the framework of the Service fire management program. The WASO Office of Fire Management,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen, Burgan
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Papineau
Wintertime (November-March) surface air temperatures at 14 stations throughout the state of Alaska are correlated with the Southern Oscillation Index and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation index, for the years 1954-2000. On the seasonal and monthly timescales, the principal results…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hess, Scott, Hufford, Fleming
Examining the relationship of El Niño to weather patterns in Alaska shows wide climate variances that depend on the teleconnection between the tropics and the northern latitudes. However, the weather patterns exhibited in Alaska during and just after moderate to strong El Niño…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Conard, Hartzell, Hilbruner, Zimmerman
Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fuquay, Baughman, Latham
A model has been developed for predicting the number of lightning-fire ignitions in wildland fuels. The model is based on both stochastic and physical processes. Stochastic methods are used to generalize the lightning storm characteristics and site conditions that affect the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jenkins, Clark, Coen
This chapter attempts to describe a fairly recent and major advance in the modeling of wildfires: the coupling of a cloud-resolving numerical prediction model with a simple fire-spread and wildfire behavior model, so that the atmosphere-fire is treated as a single, dynamical…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini, Baughman
This paper presents formulae, tables, and figures that can be used to estimate the ratio of mean windspeed acting on the flame from a spreading wildland fire to the mean windspeed 20 ft (6 m) above the vegetation cover. The formulae for windspeed above uniform, continuous…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fernando, Smith, IV
An intriguing variety of vortex structures arise during buoyant convection, especially in the presence of background stratification and rotation. These vortices play an important role in environmental fluid motions, bearing upon small-scale turbulence to planetary-scale…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Rorig
Lightning causes most wildfires in the western United States, and is a major cause of fire elsewhere in the U.S. Because most lightning occurs with significant precipitation, however, simple predictions of Lightning Activity Level (LAL) do not accurately determine fire ignition…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dale, Joyce, McNulty, Neilson, Ayres, Flannigan, Hanson, Irland, Lugo, Peterson, Simberloff, Swanson, Stocks, Wotton
This article examines how eight disturbances influence forest structure, composition, and function, and how climate change may influence the severity, frequency, and magnitude of disturbances to forests. We focus on examples from the United States, although these influences…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wilmore
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System's Fire Weather Index (FWI) System models 3 levels of fuel moisture within the forest floor using simple environmental inputs. Wildland fire managers in interior Alaska have expressed concern that the FWI system does not take…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Latham
Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radke, Ward, Riggan
Forestry, conservation, wildfire risk reduction, and agricultural uses of planned or prescribed fires as a tool for meeting the needs of wildland managers are increasingly in collision at the air pollution control and climate change cross-roads. The inevitable conflict resulting…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter, Martin
The University of Wisconsin-Madison produces Web-accessible, 24- and 48-hour forecasts of the Haines Index (a tool used to measure the atmospheric potential for large wildfire development) for most of North America using its nonhydrostatic modeling system. The authors examined…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES