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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Miller
What better way to learn about fire ecology than to allow fires to burn during their own season, at their own pace, and without interference from humans? The strategy known as wildland fire use (WFU) does just that, and is being increasingly applied, with over one million acres…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kreye, Varner
Mastication has become a popular fuels treatment in the Western United States, but predicting subsequent fire behavior and effects has proven difficult. Fire behavior and effects in masticated fuelbeds have been more intense and erratic in comparison with model predictions.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heilman, Bian
The 24- to 72-hour fire-weather predictions for different regions of the United States are now readily available from the regional Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS) that were established as part of the U.S. National Fire Plan. These…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frankman, Webb, Butler
Thermal radiation emission from a simulated black flame surface to a fuel bed is analyzed by a ray-tracing technique, tracking emission from points along the flame to locations along the fuel bed while accounting for absorption by environmental water vapor in the intervening…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer, Butler
A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model and a mass-consistent model were used to simulate winds on simulated fire spread over a simple, low hill. The results suggest that the CFD wind field could significantly change simulated fire spread compared to traditional uniform winds…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jimenez, Hussaini, Goodrick
The purpose of the present work is to quantify parametric uncertainty in Rothermel's wildland fire spread model (implemented in software such as BehavePlus3 and FARSITE), which is undoubtedly among the most widely used fire spread models in the United States. This model consists…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dietenberger
Effective mitigation of external fires on structures can be achieved flexibly, economically, and aesthetically by (1) preventing large-area ignition on structures from close proximity of burning vegetations and (2) stopping flame travel from firebrands landing on combustible…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Robinson, Harrod, Gessler, Smith
The conditions necessary for the combustion of canopy fuels are not well known but are assumed to be highly influenced by the volume through which the canopy fuels are dispersed, known as canopy bulk density (CBD). Propagating crown fire is defined as a continuous wall of flame…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Anderson, Catchpole
Data demonstrate the effect of slope on heading and backing fires burning through woody fuels. The data indicate that the upper limit of heading fire rate of spread is defined by the rate of spread up a vertical fuel array, and the lower limit is defined by the rate of spread of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bishop
The FireLine Assessment MEthod (FLAME) provides a fireline-practical tool for predicting significant changes in fire rate-of-spread (ROS). FLAME addresses the dominant drivers of large, short-term change: effective windspeed, fuel type, and fine-fuel moisture. Primary output is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trethewey
A helicopter comparison index was developed to incorporate cost and benefit information for individual helicopters for large wildland fire suppression operations. The costs and benefits for individual helicopters are unique. Costs consist of daily availability and hourly flight…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Scott
A complete set of nomographs for estimating surface fire rate of spread and flame length for the original 13 and new 40 fire behavior fuel models is presented. The nomographs allow calculation of spread rate and flame length for wind in any direction with respect to slope and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Heyerdahl, Keane, Dorner, Fall
We assessed accuracy in point fire intervals using a simulation model that sampled four spatially explicit simulated fire histories. These histories varied in fire frequency and size and were simulated on a flat landscape with two forest types (dry versus mesic). We used three…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kovalev, Hao, Wold, Adam
An experimental method for determining the presence and the level of systematic distortions in lidar data is considered. The method has been developed on the basis of two years of field experiments with the Fire Sciences Laboratory elastic scanning lidar. The influence of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev, Hao, Wold
A new method is considered that can be used for inverting data obtained from a combined elastic-inelastic lidar or a high spectral resolution lidar operating in a one-directional mode, or an elastic lidar operating in a multiangle mode. The particulate extinction coefficient is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Gray, Dickinson
Silvicultural cutting treatments may be needed to restore whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests, but little is known of the response of this species to removal of competition through prescribed burning or silvicultural cuttings. We analyzed stem cross-sections from 48…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Hyde, Robichaud, Jones, Ashmun, Loeffler
Wildfire effects include loss of vegetative cover and changes to soil properties that may lead to secondary effects of increased runoff, erosion, flooding, sedimentation, and vulnerability to invasive weeds. These secondary effects may threaten human life and safety, cultural…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lentile, Morgan, Hudak, Bobbitt, Lewis, Smith, Robichaud
Vegetation response and burn severity were examined following eight large wildfires that burned in 2003 and 2004: two wildfires in California chaparral, two each in dry and moist mixed-conifer forests in Montana, and two in boreal forests in interior Alaska. Our research…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hudak, Morgan, Bobbitt, Smith, Lewis, Lentile, Robichaud, Clark, McKinley
The Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) and the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center produce Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) maps for use by Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams in rapid…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Hardy
Fire scientists in the United States began exploring the relationships of fire-danger and hazard with weather, fuel moisture, and ignition probabilities as early as 1916. Many of the relationships identified then persist today in the form of our National Fire-Danger-Rating…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Finney, Fischetti
The number of catastrophic wildfires in the U.S. has been steadily rising. The nation has spent more than $1 billion annually to suppress such fires in eight of the past 10 years. In 2005 a record 8.7 million acres burned, only to be succeeded by 9.9 million acres in 2006. And…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is based on a collection of models that describe fire behavior, fire effects, and fire environment. Although the Rothermel surface fire spread model is an important component of BehavePlus, it is only one of over 30 mathematical models in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adam, Kovalev, Wold, Newton, Pahlow, Hao, Parlange
An improved measurement methodology and a data-processing technique for multiangle data obtained with an elastic scanning lidar in clear atmospheres are introduced. Azimuthal and slope scans are combined to reduce the atmospheric heterogeneity. Vertical profiles of optical depth…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The objective of the Fire Use Modules Operations Guide is to provide standards for the operations of all Fire Use Modules (FUM). These standards will be used by staff, supervisors, specialists, and technicians for planning, administering and conducting FUM operations. These…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Wagtendonk
Wildland fire use as a concept had its origin when humans first gained the ability to suppress fires. Some fires were suppressed and others were allowed to burn based on human values and objectives. Native Americans and Euro-American settlers fought those fires that threatened…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES