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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Anderson
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zakharov, Zakharova, Sinilo, Sorochinsky
The study of the area of Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) using spaceborne SAR and optical data is devoted to the monitoring of the forests state in the surrounding area. The use of a SIR-C/X datatake from SRL-2 flight and series of ERS SAR data for the year interval 1992-…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shepperd, Gallup
Recent fires have spawned intense interest in fuel treatment and ecological restoration activities. Scientists and land managers have been advocating these activities for years, and the recent fires have provided incentives for federal, state, and local entities to move ahead…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shannon, Butler
Temperature has been used extensively to characterize wildland fire behavior, intensity, and effects. The thermocouple has become one of the most used instruments to measure this quantity. Although the devices are inexpensive, convenient and easy to use, there can be significant…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Scott, Reinhardt
Many glossaries of wildland fire terms exist. Most are extensive (many terms) rather than intensive (much information about each term). For example, the 1996 NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology contains more than 1500 terms, but each is limited to 255 characters (about 20…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Scott, Reinhardt, Helmy
Reinhardt and Scott (this conference) described methods and initial results of a field study of canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands. In this poster we present a preliminary stereo photo guide for estimating canopy characteristics in conifer forests derived from…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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: FRAMES
Sandberg, Hardy, Weise, Rehm, Linn
The Core Fire Science Caucus is a self-directed team of fire scientists who are dedicated to improving the core physical science basis for fire management. Our goal is to provide fire managers with the ability to plan for and predict (in real time) the nature of the combustion…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Chapin, Hinzman
A landscape-scale prescribed research burn in the boreal forest of interior Alaska, FROSTFIRE, was an unmitigated success for scientists and fire managers. Planning over a 5-year period culminated in a safe and successful burn during 8-15 July 1999. Within the 1,000-ha fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
The National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) were developed to assess and predict wildfire danger in the forests of the United States and Canada. In addition, the fire weather index components of these systems are…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
In Alaska, the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) system is used to track the effect of weather of fuel moisture conditions. The prescription of the FrostFire experimental burn (near Fairbanks) was based on the basic weather conditions as well as the FWI codes, which…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rollins, Keane, Zhu, Menakis, Hann, Shlisky
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roberts, Dennison
Wildfire is one of the most significant forms of natural disturbance, impacting a wide range of ecosystems ranging from boreal forests to Mediterranean shrublands and tropical rainforest. One of the greatest uncertainties in assessing fire danger is our knowledge of fuels. Fuel…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riggan, Hoffman
Airborne trials have produced the first applications of a new thermal-imaging radiometer, the FireMapper, which is a unique three-channel, calibrated imaging system designed through a Research Joint Venture between the USDA Forest Service and Space Instruments, Inc. FireMapper…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riebau, Fox
Fires can be catastrophic, but only when the weather permits. Predicting the weather more than a few hours into the future with accuracy, precision and reliability is an on-going challenge to researchers. Accurate and precise forecasting for more than a few hours into the future…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter, Goodrick, Brown
Fire managers and forecasters must have tools, such as fire indices, to summarize large amounts of complex information. These tools allow them to identify and plan for periods of elevated risk and/or wildfire potential. This need was once met using simple measures like relative…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Landres, Miller
The management of natural fire and fuels in wilderness areas of the United States presents a significant dilemma to federal land managers.Wilderness fire management requires balancing mandates to both preserve natural conditions and minimize the impacts of human activities.It…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parisien, Kafka, Todd, Hirsch, Lavoie
The aim of this study is to examine the spatial relationship between large recent burns and their effect on landscape flammability, as expressed by burn probability (BP), in the western boreal forest of Canada. The BP provides an estimate of the present likelihood that a given…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Smart, Worum, Haggstrom
From introduction: 'In the mosaic of stand types and stand ages in boreal forest, conifer food webs are often characterized by invertebrates and their avian predators, whereas young deciduous or broadleaf forest is more generally the forage base for mammalian food webs (Pastor…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg, Prichard, Riccardi
The ongoing development of sophisticated fire behavior, fire effects, and carbon balance models and the implementation of large landscape assessments has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuelbed classification that more accurately captures the structural…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg
Research to quantify fuel consumption in boreal forest types is critical for effective modeling of fire effects. There is considerable amount of forest floor consumption research completed in the contiguous United States; however, the unique lichen, moss, and duff forest floor…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Recent fires have spawned intense interest in fuel treatment and ecological restoration activities. Scientists and land managers have been advocating these activities for years, and the recent fires have provided incentives for federal, state, and local entities to move ahead…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Current federal wildland fire policy recognizes wildland fire as an important natural process and emphasizes the need to reintroduce fire into ecosystems. The policy also recognizes that hazardous fuel accumulations may need to be reduced on vast acreages of land before fire can…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES