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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Kakoyannis, Shindler, Stankey
Natural resource managers are being confronted with increasing conflict and litigation with those who find their management plans unacceptable. Compatible and sustainable management decisions necessitate that natural resource agencies generate plans that are not only…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Welker, Pipkin, Sliepcevich
A simplified and improved correlation for the drag coefficient of windblown natural gas flames is given. Experimental results leading to the correlation were obtained in a low-speed wind tunnel specifically designed for such studies at the University of Oklahoma North Campus.
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Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tieszen
Fluid mechanics research related to fire is reviewed with a focus on canonical flows, multiphysics coupling aspects, and experimental and numerical techniques. Fire is a low-speed, chemically reacting flow in which buoyancy plays an important role. Fire research has focused on…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carlton
BehavePlus is a PC application to predict wildland fire behavior for fire management purposes. It is designed for use by wildland fire managers who are familiar with fuels, weather, topography, wildland fire situations, and associated terminology. BehavePlus uses site-specific…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Gossard, Lahm, Fitch, Jones, Nolde, Russell, Sandberg, Ziolko
This document represents a compendium of all supporting material prepared by the NBTT throughout the development of the Recommended Policy for Categorizing Fire Emissions. The Recommended Policy for Categorizing Fire Emissions has been developed over an 18-month period by the…
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
Arner, Woudenberg, Waters, Vissage, MacLean, Thompson, Hansen
Procedures to assign stocking values to individual trees, and forest type, stand size, and stocking class to all Forest Inventory and Analysis plots nationwide are presented. The stocking values are assigned using species specific functions of diameter developed from normal…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Mann
Interior Alaska contains 140 million burnable acres and includes the largest National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges in the country. On average, wildland fires burn 1,000,000 acres in Interior Alaska each year and threaten the lives, property, and timber resources of Alaska…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Malcolm, Markham, Neilson
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joyce, Aber, McNulty, Dale, Hansen, Irland, Neilson, Skog
Forests cover nearly one-third of the US,providing wildlife habitat, clean air and water, cultural and aesthetic values,carbon storage, recreational opportunities such as hiking, camping, fishing,and autumn leaf tours,and products that can be harvested such as timber, pulpwood,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen, Neilson, Dale, Flather, Iverson, Currie, Shafer, Cook, Bartlein
This article serves as a primer on forest biodiversity as a key component of global change. We first synthesize current knowledge of interactions among climate, land use, and biodiversity. We then summarize the results of new analyses on the potential effects of human-induced…
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
Bachelet, Neilson, Lenihan, Drapek
The Kyoto protocol has focused the attention of the public and policy markers on the earth's carbon (C) budget. Previous estimates of the impacts of vegetation change have been limited to equilibrium 'snapshots' that could not capture nonlinear or threshold effects along the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Lenihan, Daly, Neilson, Ojima, Parton
Assessments of vegetation response to climate change have generally been made only by equilibrium vegetation models that predict vegetation composition under steady-state conditions. These models do not simulate either ecosystem biogeochemical processes or changes in ecosystem…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Aber, Neilson, McNulty, Lenihan, Bachelet, Drapek
The purpose of this article is to review the state of prediction of forest ecosystem response to envisioned changes in the physical and chemical climate. These results are offered as one part of the forest sector analysis of the National Assessment of the Potential Consequences…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of the Fire and Invasive Species workshop was to assess the state of knowledge of the interactions of fire and invasive plants, including fire management practices related to control and susceptibility, influence of invasive species on fire regimes, influence of fire…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP), as the successor to the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission (GCVTC), is charged with implementing the GCVTC Recommendations as well as addressing broader air quality issues, such as the Regional Haze Rule. The Regional Haze…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greenough
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Peterson, Acheson
Smoke management is becoming increasingly complex as the use of fire to preserve or maintain forest health and reduce hazardous fuels is increasing and as smoke from forest and rangeland burning is combining with smoke from traditional agricultural fires to compete for airshed…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine, Jandt
After extensive wildfires burned on the Seward Peninsula in 1977, a study was initiated to determine the effects of these fires on tundra soils and vegetation (Racine 1978). Fifteen permanent 10m x 1m belt transects were established at four different burn sites. One site (Imuruk…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Jandt
During the summer of 2000 and spring of 2001 Alaska Fire Service (AFS) completed three hazard fuel break projects on military owned lands adjacent to three residential areas (Shannon Park, Hamilton Acres, and Clear Creek Subdivision West). Shaded fuel breaks were created to…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Kimmerer, Lake
This article highlights the findings of the literature on aboriginal fire from the human- and the land-centered disciplines, and suggests that the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples be incorporated into plans for reintroducing fire to the nation's forests. Traditional…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES