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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Fege, Corrigall
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
From the text...'FOFEM 4.0-A First Order Fire Effects Model-is a computer program developed to meet the needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Hardy
Poster abstract...A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM was designed for application to most areas of the United States. First order fire effects are the immediate or direct results of a…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gibbs
From the text...'If you are not using a Public Information Officer on your prescribed burn projects, you should consider doing so. A PIO will provide a valuable service. As you scramble to get the needed resources, equipment and weather data, they can concentrate on informing…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stieglitz
From the Abstract: 'Fire managers face various problems, including: A. Classic urban interface issues. 1. Endangerment of private property, especially structures. 2. Air quality and smoke management. 3. Loss of cost-effectiveness by managing fire on extremely small parcels. B.…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pruden, Brennan
[no description entered]
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
Recreation is of increasing importance in forest environments. Fire has both short-term effects, trail closures, smoke impacts; and long-term effects, residual 'scars,' potential hazards, on forest recreation. The general public is gaining sophistication in understanding forest…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barkow
Fire is becoming recognized as a major issue throughout the North American continent. The last several years have seen major fire seasons in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. There are five areas where an international approach to fire management will be useful. Technology…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
Sustaining the availability and quality of forest and rangeland ecosystems is a problem facing our society now and into the future. Since fire is a significant process in these ecosystems, managing fire is a part of this environmental problem. Insufficient knowledge seriously…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Young, Ogg, Dotray
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heikes, Ransohoff, Small
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
This policy statement has been prepared in response to plans by some Federal, tribal and State wildland owners/managers to significantly increase the use of wildland and prescribed fires to achieve resource benefits in the wildlands. Many wildland ecosystems are considered to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward
My discussion starts with some of the chemical aspects of forest fuels important from an emissions production standpoint. Then combustion processes are discussed. Finally, the emissions are described according to particulate matter and gaseous fractions.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lobert, Scharffe, Hao, Crutzen
BIOMASS burning is a primary source of many trace substances that are important in atmospheric chemistry. More than 80% of the world's biomass burning takes place in the tropics as a result of savanna fires, forest-clearing activity, and the burning of agricultural waste and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leenhouts
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Werth, Ochoa
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zoltai, Morrissey, Livingston, de Groot
Boreal peatlands occupy about 1.14 x 106 km2 in North America. Fires can spread into peatlands, burning the biomass, and if moisture conditions permit, burning into the surface peat. Charred layers in peat sections reveal that historically bogs in the subhumid continental…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zepp, Burke
Description not entered.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Conard, Davidenko
Boreal forests and woodlands comprise about 29% of the world's forest cover. About 70% of this forest is in Eurasia, mostly in the Russian Federation. Boreal forests contain about 45% of the world's growing stock and are an increasingly important part of global timber production…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cheng, McDonald, Angle, Sandhu
A large forest fire occurred about 300 km to the northeast of the Edmonton area in early summer 1995. The forest fire produced nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and ozone which were transported down-wind. Continuous monitoring of O3, NO and NO2 and integrated measurements of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Bergeron, Engelmark, Wotton
Despite increasing temperatures since the end of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1850), wildfire frequency has decreased as shown in many field studies from North America and Europe. We believe that global warming since 1850 may have triggered decreases in fire frequency in some regions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dimitrov
An overview is given of recent research on forest fires, particularly climate change and its implications for forest fire and vegetation zoning in Russian and Canadian boreal forests, fire emissions and their impact on the atmosphere, the predicted catastrophic effects on global…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES