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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Weise, Biging
Wind velocity and slope are two critical variables that affect wildland fire rate of spread. The effects of these variables on rate of spread are often combined in rate-of-spread models using vector addition. The various methods used to combine wind and slope effects have seldom…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Peterson
This document contains a recommendation on obtaining simple, realistic information for an emission inventory of wildland fires appropriate for State Implementation Plan (SIP) development. The minimum precision for the inventory would be a one-year time period (current and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lenihan, Neilson
[Complete Text] Fire regimes are especially sensitive to changes in climate, and broad scale changes in the frequency and severity of fire could be more important near-term determinates of the rates of ecosystem change than more direct effects of global warming. Simulating the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donoghue
Discusses problems associated with fire-cause data on USDA Forest Service wildfire reports, traces the historical development of wildfire-cause categories, and presents the pros and cons of retaining current wildfire-cause reporting systems or adopting new systems.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM computes duff and woody fuel consumption, smoke production, and fire-caused tree mortality for most forest and rangeland types in the United States.…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
A computer program, FIRES: Fire Information Retrieval and Evaluation System, provides methods for evaluating the performance of fire danger rating indexes. The relationship between fire danger indexes and historical fire occurrence and size is examined through logistic…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donoghue
Traces the history of USDA Forest Service fire reports, examines the most recent report, Form 5100-29, and discusses the reliability of information recorded on the 5100-29, factors influencing data accuracy, and reactions of the Ranger District personnel to wildfire reporting.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sedjo
ANNOTATION: This paper undertakes a preliminary exploration into the economics of generating energy from forest-based biomass. The study assesses the feasibility of greatly expanding the share of total energy consumption in developed countries that could be economically…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ter-Mikaelian, Korzukhin
ANNOTATION: The paper presents a comprehensive review of the biomass equations for 65 North American tree species. All equations are of the form M = aDb, where M is the oven-dry weight of the biomass component of a tree (kg), D is diameter at breast height (DBH) (cm), and a and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wykoff, Crookston, Stage
The Inland Empire version of the Prognosis Model, a computer program designed to simulate the development of forest stands, is described. The Inland Empire version is calibrated for eleven tree species occurring on over 30 habitat types. The individual tree is the basic unit of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schimel, Emanuel, Rizzo, Smith, Woodward, Fisher, Kittel, McKeown, Painter, Rosenbloom, Ojima, Parton, Kicklighter, McGuire, Melillo, Pan, Haxeltine, Prentice, Sitch, Hibbard, Nemani, Pierce, Running, Borchers, Chaney, Neilson, Braswell
Management of ecosystems at large regional or continental scales and determination of the vulnerability of ecosystems to large-scale changes in climate or atmospheric chemistry require understanding how ecosystem processes are governed at large spatial scales. A collaborative…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Chaney
The potential impacts on U.S. vegetation of carbon dioxide induced global warming were analyzed for sufficient effects, either positive or negative, that might require dramatic shifts in forest management policies. The Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System (MAPSS) was used to…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
MAPSS (Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System) is a global biogeography model that simulates the potential natural vegetation that can be supported at any upland site in the world under a long-term steady-state climate. MAPSS operates on the fundamental principle that ecosystems…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kittel, Royle, Daly, Rosenbloom, Gibson, Fisher, Schimel, Berliner
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Law
PCDANGER is a personal computer application of the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) that calculates both 1978 and 1988 version fire danger indexes from daily weather observations and forecasts. Its computational routines (NFDRCALC) are the same as those used in the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Plevel
Wildland fires are destroying more homes and threatening more urban areas in the United States every year. Much of this destruction happens because more people are moving into the wildland-urban interface. A problem once thought unique to Southern California is now recognized as…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Walker, Hobbs, Hooper, Lawton, Sala, Tilman
Changes in the abundance of species - especially those that influence water and nutrient dynamics, trophic interactions, or disturbance regime - affect the structure and functioning of ecosystems. Diversity is also functionally important, both because it increases the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt, Rinehart
[From first paragraph] Line production estimating guides are needed for initial action planning and estimating control forces required on project fires. Current methods of predicting fire behavior in these situations use fire behavior models. This article provides line…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perrings, Walker
The loss of resilience in systems characterised by multiple equilibria is indicated by a discontinuous change in the state of the system, or the transition from one locally stable state corresponding to a particular mix of species to another state corresponding to a different…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, Allen
Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) is currently and historically has been a serious point of contention among a wide variety of people interested in sagebrush (Artemisia)bunchgrass rangelands. Nowhere are these differences more apparent than in the scientific community. Our purpose…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greulich, O'Regan
Fire managers face two interrelated problems in deciding the most efficient use of air tankers: where best to base them, and how best to reallocate them each day in anticipation of fire occurrence. A computerized model based on a mixed integer linear program can help in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parker
Structural/functional characteristics of the vegetative cover are used to provide common attributes for comparing vegetation patterns in Yosemite National Park, California, in the central Sierra Nevada, and Glacier National Park, Montana, in the northern Rocky Mountains.…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beever
Spontaneous ignition resulting from slow oxidation of combustible material can be an industrial fire hazard. The problems are fairly well recognised. This paper describes a simple and powerful test method which can be used to assess the spontaneous ignition hazard of particulate…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter, Philpot
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS