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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hufford, Kelley, Moore, Cotterman
The utility of the new GOES-9 satellite 3.9 um channel to monitor wildfires and their subsequent changes in growth and intensity in Alaska is examined. The June, 1996 Miller's Reach forest fire is presented as a case study. Eighteen hours of sequential imagery coincident to the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hinzman, Fukuda, Sandberg, Chapin, Dash
The FROSTFIRE research project conducted a prescribed burn of a 970 ha watershed in interior Alaska. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental burn of a watershed and the most thoroughly documented prescribed fire in history. Although extensive fire research…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg, Reynolds, Keane, James, Salter
We present a decision support application that evaluates danger of severe wildland fire and prioritizes subwatersheds for vegetation and fuels treatment. We demonstrate the use of the system with an example from the Rocky Mountain region in the State of Utah; a planning area of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hegy, Quenet
The data base of the Planning and Inventory Branch, B.C. Ministry of Forests, consists of approximately 7000 forest cover maps, descriptive statistics, growth information and depletion data. This data base must be current and hence, needs to be updated annually. Maintaining an…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, Manies, Turetsky, Neff
The influence of discontinuous permafrost on ground-fuel storage, combustion losses,and postfire soil climates was examined after a wildfire near Delta Junction, AK in July 1999. At this site, we sampled soils from a four-way site comparison of burning (burned and unburned) and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Goode, Yokelson, Ward, Susott, Babbitt, Davies, Hao
We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dunham, Young, Gresswell, Rieman
Our limited understanding of the short and long-term effects of fire on fish contributes to considerable uncertainty in assessments of the risks and benefits of fire management alternatives. A primary concern among the many potential effects of fire is the effects of fire and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Curran, Miller, Howes, Maynard, Terry, Heninger, Niemann, Van Rees, Powers, Schoenholtz
International protocols, such as those of the Montreal Process (MP), specify desired outcomes without specifying the process and components required to attain those outcomes. We suggest that the process and its components are critical to achieve desired outcomes. We discuss…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Giglio, Justice
There is interest in the global community on how fire regimes are changing as a function of changing demographics and climate. The ground-based data to monitor such trends in fire activity are inadequate at the global scale. Satellite observations provide a basis for such a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arroyo, Pascual, Manzanera
Understanding fire is essential to improving forest management strategies. More specifically, an accurate knowledge of the spatial distribution of fuels is critical when analyzing, modeling and predicting fire behavior. First, we review the main concepts and terminology…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Klaver, Klaver
A national 1-km resolution fire danger fuel model map was derived through used of previously mapped land cover classes and ecoregions, and extensive ground sample data, then refined through review by fire managers familiar with various portions of the U.S. The fuel model map…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bourgeau-Chavez, Kasischke, Rutherford
Research was conducted to determine the utility of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for measuring the fuel moisture status of boreal forests as reflected in Fire Weather Index Codes. Three years (May to August 1992-1995) of SAR data from the European Remote Sensing Satellite…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Redmann, Romo, Pylypec
Grassland communities dominated by Festuca scabrella or by Stipa curtiseta and Agropyron dasystachyum were burned experimentally in spring or autumn. Forb, shrub and graminoid biomasses were greater in the unburned Festuca community than in the Stipa-Agropyron type. Spring and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Eagan, O'Neill, Lahm, Menakis, Dzomba
On January 6, 2010, the EPA proposed to strengthen the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone. EPA also proposed an accelerated implementation schedule as part of this Rule. The primary standard is designed to protect public health and the proposal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
2014 is an EPA National Emission Inventory (NEI) Year. The NEI is a national inventory of air pollutants, emitted from all sources. EPA compiles a NEI every three years from information submitted by State/Local/Tribal (SLT) agencies. Prescribed fire, wildfire and crop residue…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lobert, Scharffe, Hao, Kuhlbusch, Seuwan, Warneck, Crutzen
Today biomass burning is accepted to be an important source of many trace gases affecting atmospheric chemistry (Crutzen et al., 1979; Cofer et al., 1988a; Radke et al., 1988; Crutzen et al., 1990). Despite its global significance and in contrast to fossil fuel use, where…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manies, Harden, Ottmar
This report describes the sample collection and processing for U.S. Geological Survey efforts at FROSTFIRE, an experimental burn that occurred in Alaska in 1999. Data regarding carbon, water, and energy dynamics pre-fire, during, and post-fire were obtained in this landscape-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Penner, Power, Muhairwe, Tellier, Wang
The importance of Canada's forest biomass in the global carbon cycle needs to be better understood as part of Canada's efforts to meet its objective of sustainable forestry. The distribution of biomass, as well as the changes associated with different management scenarios, have…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES