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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander
This presentation was given by Martin Alexander as part of the Alaska Fire Service Military Zone Meeting on April 3, 2008 at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This presentation was given by Martin Alexander as part of the Alaska Division of Forestry Spring Operations Meeting on April 4, 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Objectives of the presentation were tor review the philosophy and structure behind the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating…
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This powerpoint presentation was the invited keynote address presented at the 4th Plenary Fire Paradox Meeting, June 9-13, 2008, Chania, Crete, Greece. The main points of discussion of this presentation were origins of fire behavior research, fire behavior research, and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Wilderness medicine is the practice of providing medical attention when definitive care is further that 1 hour's travel time to provide medical treatment. In very remote locations, it can take days or weeks for rescuers to reach victims. The practice of wilderness medicine comes…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These research topics were distributed throughout the interagency fire and land management agencies in 2008. Respondents prioritized the topics within each category. The AWFCG Research Committee recommended rankings for topics which had no clear ranking dominance to the AWFCG. '…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boerner, Huang, Hart
Changes in estimated standing stocks of carbon (C) in vegetation, forest floor, dead wood, and mineral soil for the fire and fire surrogate (FFS) network sites were evaluated in relation to the application of prescribed fire, mechanical treatments designed as surrogates for…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nelson, Zavaleta, Chapin
Rural communities in the northern boreal forest depend on a suite of wild species for subsistence, including large game animals, furbearers, fish, and plants. Fire is one of the primary ecological disturbances and determinants of landscape pattern in the northern boreal forest.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
An optimization model for locating fuel treatments across a landscape to reduce expected fire losses
Locating fuel treatments with scarce resources is an important consideration in landscape-level fuel management. This paper developed a mixed integer programming (MIP) model for allocating fuel treatments across a landscape based on spatial information for fire ignition risk,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Shetler, Turetsky, Kane, Kasischke
The high water retention of hummock-forming Sphagnum species minimizes soil moisture fluctuations and might protect forest floor organic matter from burning during wildfire. We hypothesized that Sphagnum cover reduces overall forest floor organic matter consumption during…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tachajapong, Lozano, Mahalingam, Zhou, Weise
Crown fire initiation is studied by using a simple experimental and detailed physical modeling based on Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Experiments conducted thus far reveal that crown fuel ignition via surface fire occurs when the crown base is within the continuous flame region…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rehm
A simple physics-based mathematical model is developed for prediction of the propagation of a grass-fire front driven by an ambient wind and by entrainment winds generated from one or more burning structures. This model accounts for the heterogeneous nature of the burning in a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Enninful, Torvi
A numerical model of heat transfer in dry soil was developed to predict temperatures and depth of lethal heat penetration during cone calorimeter tests used to simulate wildland fire exposures. The model was used to compare predictions made using constant and temperature-…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sharples
The effects of wind and topographic slope are important considerations when determining the rate and direction of spread of wildfires. Accordingly, most models used to predict the direction and rate of spread contain components designed to account for these effects. Over the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoy, French, Turetsky, Trigg, Kasischke
Satellite remotely sensed data of fire disturbance offers important information; however, current methods to study fire severity may need modifications for boreal regions. We assessed the potential of the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) and other spectroscopic indices…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Murphy, Reynolds, Koltun
During the 2004 fire season ~6.6 million acres (~2.7 million ha) burned across Alaska. Nearly 2 million of these were on National Wildlife Refuge System lands inaccessible from the state's limited road system. Many fires burned through September, driven by unusually warm and dry…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jimenez, Hussaini, Goodrick
The purpose of the present work is to quantify parametric uncertainty in the Rothermel 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…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higgins, Bond, Trollope, Williams
We develop empirical models for the rate of spread and intensity of fires in grass fuels. The models are based on a well-known physical analogy for the rate of spread of a fire through a continuous fuelbed. Unlike other models based on this analogy, we do not attempt to directly…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In 1972, aeronautical engineer Richard C. Rothermel, of the USDA Fire Sciences Lab at Missoula, Montana, developed a method for modeling the spread of wildfire. The model became widely used, and although the ensuing years have brought many technological innovations, it is still…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
With a history of management choices that have suppressed fire in the West, ecosystems in which fire would play a vital role have developed tremendous fuel loads. As a result, conditions are prime for fires to grow large, escape attack measures, and become catastrophic…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton, Jones, Hann
The Fire Behavior Assessment Tool (FBAT) provides an interface between ArcMap and FlamMap3 (Finney and others 2006), a fire behavior mapping and analysis program that computes potential fire behavior characteristics (flame length, rate of spread, fire type or crown fire activity…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephen, Sorbel
In the absence of available LANDFIRE data in Alaska, a FARSITE landscape file was generated for the Tanana Zone Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) prototype by applying a cross-walk to the recently released Alaska National Land Cover Data (NLCD) dataset. In an effort…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephen, Sorbel
Guidelines for running a FSPro analysis and calibrating a FSPro run for Alaska, with the disclaimer that WFDSS/FSPro is a prototype application that is currently under development.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goals for the meeting and process: 1) Using the available statewide fire weather data and combining stations to develop long data sets for fire slowing/ending events probabilities (we will not be doing SE Alaska); 2) Develop prescriptions statewide (except SE) that constitutes a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuwana, Sekimoto, Saito, Williams
A fire whirl in an open space can cause devastating damage as was experienced in Hifukusho-ato, Tokyo, after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1921. To understand the generation mechanism of the open-space fire whirls, 1/1000th scale-model experiments were conducted in a large, low-…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clements, Zhong, Bian, Heilman, Byun
Wildland fires radically modify the atmospheric boundary layer by inducing strong fire-atmosphere interactions. These interactions lead to intense turbulence production in and around the fire front. Two field experiments were conducted in tall-grass fuels to quantify turbulence…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES