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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 51 - 75 of 90
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
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
Greenough
Description not entered.
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
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
Keane, Neuenschwander, Ryan
This fuels mapping project has one main objectives. To develop methods for creating spatial fuels layers for fire behavior and fire effects prediction systems and hazard and risk assessment The primary goal of this objective is to develop methods and protocols for creating high…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ottmar, Cushon
The ongoing development of sophisticated fire behavior and effects models has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuel classification that more accurately captures the structural complexity and geographic diversity of fuelbeds. The Fire and Environmental…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
Fire effects are modeled for a variety of reasons including: to evaluate risk, to develop treatment prescriptions, to compare management options, and to understand ecosystems. Fire effects modeling may be conducted at a range of temporal and spatial scales. First-order fire…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lists the conference proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology (November 11-15, 2001).
Year: 2001
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Amiro
Disturbances by fire and harvesting were thought to regulate the carbon balance of the Canadian boreal forest over scales of several decades. However, there are few direct measurements of carbon fluxes following disturbances to provide data needed to refine mathematical models.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Putnam
Fire shelters are required equipment for most wildland firefighters in the United States. In this study we report flame emissive power and temperatures inside and outside fire shelters placed in one prescribed fire, five experimental field fires, and one laboratory fire. Energy…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Park, Lee, Hong, Moon
A series of forest fires in Kangwon Province in April 2000, was one of the most serious ones in Korea in recent years. A set of multi-temporal RADARSAT data was used to identify the burned area from the undamaged background forest. First, the backscattering coefficient (âa0) of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
The main objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity and dependence of wildland fires to atmospheric stability (and to a lesser degree humidity) through comparative simulations with the Clark et al (1996a,b) coupled wildfire-atmosphere numerical prediction model.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fujioka
Wildland fire spread models have a long history, but a system is needed to quantify the magnitude, spatial and temporal variability, and statistical characteristics of fire spread modeling errors. This dissertation describes a new methodology to evaluate the uncertainties of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Reinhardt
Fire managers are increasingly concerned about the threat of crown fires, yet only now are quantitative methods for assessing crown fire hazard being developed. Links among existing mathematical models of fire behavior are used to develop two indices of crown fire hazard-the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Barrett
Landscape assessment and planning often depend on the ability to predict change of vegetation. This report compares four modeling systems (FETM, LANDSUM, SIMPPLLE, and VDDT) that can be used to understand changes resulting from succession, natural disturbance, and management…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, McCormick
FireFamily Plus is the new software for summarizing and analyzing daily weather observations and computing fire danger indexes based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS). While the software and packaging are new, many of the reports are not. FireFamily Plus…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The CrownMass program within Fuels Management Analyst facilitates: (1) the calculation of the loading of foliage and woody biomass by tree species from plot data consisting of a minimum of tree species, tree diameter breast high, tree height, tree canopy ratio and tree…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES