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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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O'Neill, Ferguson, Peterson, Wilson
BlueSky is a real-time smoke forecast system that predicts surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities. Developed by the USDA Forest Service in cooperation with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is a tool used by…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barna, Fox
This paper presents preliminary results of an effort to assess impacts caused by forest fires on regional air quality and visibility. Regional air quality is the result of many, many different sources of air pollution being transported, dispersed, chemically transformed, wet and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ohlen, Key, Benson, Zhu
Fire behavior within and across various landscapes results in a variety of spatial patterns of burn severity. This results in a variety of regeneration environments leading to greater landscape heterogeneity and species diversity in ecosystems. Mapping the spatial patterns of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benson, Key
The Composite Burn Index (CBI) is a field measure of burn severity. It captures the magnitude of ecological change on a site by rating many factors on a 30 meter plot and then integrating those factors to generate an estimate of burn severity. The strength of CBI depends on many…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Key, Benson, Ohlen, Howard, Zhu
A U.S. Department of Interior program to use Landsat to spatially quantify burn severity, using the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR or delta NBR), has prompted examination of a number of burns where both Initial and Extended Assessments were completed. The Initial…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Howard, Orlemann, Key
For several years, the US Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center and USGS EROS Data Center have produced Landsat-based products used by Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) teams and others to evaluate and map the impacts and effects of fire upon the landscape…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McKinley, Lannom, Parsons
Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams traditionally assess and map post-fire burn severity using a combination of aerial and ground reconnaissance. This process is expensive and time-intensive due to the potentially large areas to be assessed and often mountainous or…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rehm, Evans, McGrattan, Forney, Bouldin, Baker, Mell, Hostikka
This talk describes development of a physics-based mathematical and computational model to predict fire spread among structures and natural fuels (trees, shrubs and ground litter). This tool will be used to understand how fires spread in a community where both structures and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parisien, Kafka, Todd, Hirsch, Lavoie
This study examines the spatial relationship between large recent burns and their effect on the probability of burning in the western boreal forest of Canada. The burn probability (BP) provides an estimate of the present likelihood that a given point (e.g., cell) on a landscape…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilmer, Aplet
Most scientists agree that fuel reduction is required to protect communities and restore fire-dependent ecosystems, but they disagree about exactly where and how much fuel treatment is needed. To better inform this debate, we evaluated the quality of GIS maps being used to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacGregor, González-Cabán
Of the thousands of fires that occur each year on publicly managed lands, the vast majority are suppressed by initial actions undertaken by the local administrative unit. However, on relatively rare occasions fires become exceptionally large and can result in enormous resource…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Espinoza, Cui, Martell
FireSmart forest management strategies often include landscape level fuel treatments that fragment the landscape to reduce the risk of extreme fire events. We describe a decision support system that is being developed for incorporating FireSmart forest management strategies into…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prestemon, Butry, Pye, Abt, Holmes, Mercer
Wildfires in the west respond strongly to weather and climatic factors, but it is not clear how models of wildfire ignitions and wildfire area differ or what factors significantly affect them. We present panel cross-sectional models of wildfire ignitions and area by ignition…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacGregor, Dammann, Anderson
As federal land management agencies move into the 21st Century, one of the most challenging issues they face is the management of fuels to achieve both ecological objectives and to influence the potential for catastrophic and uncharacteristic wildfires. At a broad policy level,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lile, Inbau
Wildland fire coordination centers have the difficult task of determining where to position critical wildland firefighting resources. This task is compounded when several large fires occur simultaneously across vast geographic areas. According to the National Interagency Fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Golberg, Morgan
Today, a variety of tools are critical to wildland fire and fuels management. They range from the Pulaski to the latest fire behavior model. These tools, many of them increasingly available via the Internet, are useful to wildland fire researchers, managers, policymakers, and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dether, Acheson, Schoeberl
Airshed characterizations were developed to provide a mid-scale air quality assessment in support of programmatic and project level land management planning processes. These airshed assessments were developed to serve as a consistent and systematic approach for evaluating air…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paragi, Smart, Worum, Haggstrom
Modern fire suppression has the potential to alter the natural distribution of forest cover types and age classes, which has consequences for resource management. A 21,000 ha prescribed burn to enhance wildlife habitat and secondarily reduce continuity of coniferous fuels was…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scott
Originally designed as a short-life-span tool to explore the links between surface and crown fire behavior models, NEXUS was first released as an Excel spreadsheet in 1998. The modeling concepts developed for NEXUS have since been used in the Crown Mass program of Fuels…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scott, Burgan
With the publication of his surface fire spread model in 1972, Rothermel provided a listing of 11 preliminary fuel models. A fuel model is a complete set of fuel inputs needed to use the Rothermel fire spread model (load and surface-are-to-volume ratio by size class and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter
The combustion of woody materials releases significant amounts of moisture into the atmosphere. The energy required to evaporate this moisture is accounted for in the computation of fire energy release, as a loss from overall combustion energy. The moisture and energy are not…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Forthofer, Butler, Shannon, Finney, Bradshaw, Stratton
It is readily acknowledged that wind speed and direction can have a major influence on fire intensity and rate of spread. Accurate modeling of fire behavior requires either assumptions about the wind flow acting on the flames, or modeling of the flow field. Simple surface…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coen
This presentation describes the further development and application of a coupled atmosphere-fire model that uses a sophisticated high-resolution meteorological numerical model to predict the local winds which are then used as input to the prediction of fire spread. The heat and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Varner
In 2004, there is a new ICS standard for mapping fires using ArcGIS and storing the data in a Personal GeoDataBase. By storing the data in a PGeoDB, it removes all of the complexity of storing different shapes for every different part of the fire in different folders and then…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goodman
During the summer of 1999, geospatial technologies became prevalent in wildland fire management. A group of interagency wildland fire geospatial specialist proposed to the Information Resource Management Working Team (IRMWT) under the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS