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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kovalev, Kolgotin
Alternative techniques for determining the extinction coefficient and the lidar ratio from the optical-depth and backscatter-coefficient profiles are compared: (1) the techniques, in which the extinction coefficient is a primarily extracted parameter, which is then used to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ichoku, Martins, Kaufman, Wooster, Freeborn, Hao, Baker, Ryan, Nordgren
Fuel biomass samples from southern Africa and the United States were burned in a laboratory combustion chamber while measuring the biomass consumption rate, the fire radiative energy (FRE) release rate (R fre), and the smoke concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
He, Keane, Iverson
Forest landscape models have become important tools for understanding large-scale and long-term landscape (spatial) processes such as climate change, fire, windthrow, seed dispersal, insect outbreak, disease propagation, forest harvest, and fuel treatment, because controlled…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Freeborn, Wooster, Hao, Ryan, Nordgren, Baker, Ichoku
Forty-four small-scale experimental fires were conducted in a combustion chamber to examine the relationship between biomass consumption, smoke production, convective energy release, and middle infrared (MIR) measurements of fire radiative energy (FRE). Fuel bed weights, trace…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frankman, Webb, Butler
The attenuation of radiation transfer from wildland flames to fuel by environmental water vapor is investigated. Emission is tracked from points on an idealized flame to locations along the fuel bed while accounting for absorption by environmental water vapor in the intervening…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This two page report highlights the differences/upgrades between BehavePlus version 3 and BehavePlus version 4.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire management applications. BehavePlus is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
FireFamilyPlus (FFP) is a PC-based software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) or the Canadian Fire Danger Rating System (CFDRS). Fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The FVS_DB_LINK utility builds Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) data files for settings that have been loaded into FSVeg. This utility replaces the FSVeg2FVS utility previously used to download data into FVS-ready data files. The FVS_DB_LINK utilizes advancements in FVS…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a suite of computer modeling tools for predicting the long-term effects of alternative forest management actions. FVS was developed in the early 1980s and is used throughout the United Sates and British Columbia. The Third FVS conference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Del Grosso, Parton, Stohlgren, Zheng, Bachelet, Prince, Hibbard, Olson
Net primary production (NPP), the difference between CO2 fixed by photosynthesis and CO2 lost to autotrophic respiration, is one of the most important components of the carbon cycle. Our goal was to develop a simple regression model to estimate global NPP using climate and land…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Lenihan, Drapek, Neilson
The MC1 DGVM has been used in two international model comparison projects, VEMAP (Vegetation Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project) and VINCERA (Vulnerability and Impacts of North American forests to Climate Change: Ecosystem Responses and Adaptation). The latest version of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lawson, Armitage
The Weather Guide for the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System is intended primarily for operational wildland fire management personnel and forest fire weather practitioners responsible for gathering, processing, and forecasting fire weather information in support of safe…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
An updated edition (with corrections) of Marty Alexander's 1994 report on the criteria used to define the fire danger classes in New Zealand. A fire danger class scheme based on Byram's concept of fire intensity as a yardstick of suppression difficulty was devised for forests…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joyce, Blate, Littell, McNulty, Millar, Moser, Neilson, O'Halloran, Peterson
The National Forest System (NFS) is composed of 155 national forests (NFs) and 20 national grasslands (NGs), which encompass a wide range of ecosystems, harbor much of the nation?s biodiversity, and provide myriad goods and services. The mission of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Emissions Production Simulator (FEPS) is an open source, user-friendly computer program designed for a wide range of users. The software manages data about consumption, emissions, and heat release characteristics of wildland fires and prescribed burns on an hourly basis…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baron, Allen, Fleishman, Gunderson, McKenzie, Meyerson, Oropeza, Stephenson
Covering about 4% of the United States, the 338,000 km2 of protected areas in the National Park System contain representative landscapes of all of the nation's biomes and ecosystems. The U.S. National Park Service Organic Act established the National Park System in 1916 to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Avise, Lamb, Salathe, Mass, Guenther, Wiedinmyer, Lamarque, O'Neill, McKenzie, Larkin
A comprehensive numerical modeling framework was developed to estimate the effects of collective global changes upon ozone pollution in the US in 2050. The framework consists of the global climate and chemistry models, PCM (Parallel Climate Model) and MOZART-2 (Model for Ozone…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Turetsky, Ottmar, French, Hoy, Kane
We evaluated the utility of the composite burn index (CBI) for estimating fire severity in Alaskan black spruce forests by comparing data from 81 plots located in 2004 and 2005 fire events. We collected data to estimate the CBI and quantify crown damage, percent of trees…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rodman, Stam
The Municipality of Anchorage Community Wildfire Protection Plan is a collaborative effort in response to the 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA). The HFRA directs communities exposed to wildland fire to conduct a risk assessment and create a hazard fuel mitigation plan…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rummer
The basic costs of the operations for implementing fuel reduction treatments are used to evaluate treatment effectiveness, select among alternatives, estimate total project costs, and build national program strategies. However, a review of the literature indicates that there is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Laband, Hussain, González-Cabán
In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service region helps explain the persistent regional effects noted by Laband et al. (Laband, D.N., González-Cabán, A., and Hussain, A. (2006). 'Factors That Influence…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gaughan, Cox-Ganser, Enright, Castellan, Wagner, Hobbs, Bledsoe, Siegel, Kreiss, Weissman
Objectives: To assess acute respiratory effects experienced by wildland firefighters. Methods: We studied two Interagency Hotshot Crews with questionnaires, spirometry, and measurement of albumin, eosinophilic cationic protein (ECP), and myeloperoxidase (MPO) as indicators of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen
Shared fire-survival and fire-persistence traits are found in taxonomically unrelated plant species that commonly grow in fire-prone ecosystems. Such traits include resprouting, after fire has killed the above-ground biomass, and postfire seed release after the death of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
Recovery of the vegetation following the A-185 Fire, which burned in 1990 in the east central portion of the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, was monitored intermittently on 8 transects (TS) for 10 years beginning in 1991. The study areas (Black Spruce/Lichen Woodland, TS 1 and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES