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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Salih, Taha, Payne
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lawson
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Davis
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Furman, Helfman
FIRDAT is a FORTRAN IV program to compute the daily components and indexes of the National Fire-Danger Rating System. FIRDAT will also compute and print the absolute, relative and cumulative frequencies of occurrence, and print a cumulative frequency distribution for each of the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Tang, Luo, Zhong, Winkler, Bian
From the text ... 'Researchers at Michigan State University and the Forest Services's Northern Research Station worked on a joint study to examine the possible effects of future global and regional climate change on the occurrence of fire-weather patterns often associated with…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cottrell
From the text...'Smokejumpers come from all over the country and represent a very diverse and well-educated workforce.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
North, Stephens, Collins, Agee, Aplet, Franklin, Fulé
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boer, Price, Bradstock
From the text...'Studies in Australia and the United States show that weather is a stronger determinant of fire severity than is fuel...Fuel treatment whether by managed fires or other means, may be most cost-effective when strategically targeted in close proximity to assets at…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wang, Thompson, Marshall, Tymstra, Carr, Flannigan
In Canadian forests, the majority of burned area occurs on a small number of days of extreme fire weather. These days lie within the tail end of the distribution of fire weather, and are often the periods when fire suppression capacity is most challenged. We examined the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Based primarily on the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) component parts, the Fire Weather Index (FWI) System and the Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System, this document can be used to guide learning users through the fire behavior assessment process from the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide is intended as a reference for US users who may have reason to work with the system in the United States, where English units are primarily used. Keep in mind that the Canadian Forest Service has produced the definitive selection of reference publications and tools…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cunningham, Martell
This paper discusses the occurrence of man-caused forest fires during the summer fire season in a section of northwestern Ontario. Fire occurrence is viewed as being a chance process and a stochastic model is developed to describe it. The results of this study indicate that a…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fischer
This paper provides criteria for proper use of instrument shelters and suggests installation of additional special purpose shelters for other than temperature-recording instruments.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bedía, Herrera, Gutiérrez, Benali, Brands, Mota, Moreno
Fire is an integral Earth system process, playing an important role in the distribution of terrestrial ecosystems and affecting the carbon cycle at the global scale. Fire activity is controlled by a number of biophysical factors, including climate, whose relevance varies across…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Melvin
Prescribed fire activity is complex and poorly understood when evaluated at a national scale. Most often fire complexity is defined by scale, frequency, season, and location in the context of local and state laws and local community acceptance. In an effort to gain better…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fearon, Heffernan
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar conducted in partnership with the NWCG Smoke Committee, NC State University, the Desert Research Institute, the National Weather Service, and Montgomery Community College. The webinar features researcher Matthew Fearon of the Desert Research…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Abatzoglou, Barbero, Kolden, McKenzie, Potter, Stavros, Steel, Stocks, Craig, Drury, Huang, Podschwit, Raffuse, Strand
'Megafire' events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts on cities and towns downwind. Increases in extreme events associated with climate change (e.g.,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Drury
Weather forecasts can help identify environmental conditions conducive to prescribed burning or to increased fire danger. These conditions are important components of fire management tools such as fire ignition potential maps, fire danger rating systems, fire behavior…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Horel, Brown
Software was developed to evaluate National Weather Service (NWS) spot forecasts. Fire management officials request spot forecasts from the NWS to provide detailed guidance as to atmospheric conditions in the vicinity of planned prescribed burns as well as wildfires that do not…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Lierop, Lindquist, Sathyapala, Franceschini
Reliable global data on forest degradation and disturbances due to fire, insect pests, diseases and severe weather are important to understand ecosystem health and condition, safeguard production of goods and services and avoid negative impacts on human livelihoods. This paper…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Wagner
A relation between fire behavior and crown scorch height is derived from measurements on 13 experimental outdoor fires. The range of data includes fire intensities from 16 to 300 kcal/s-m, and scorch heights from 2 to 17 m. The results agree with established theory that scorch…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barbero, Abatzoglou, Larkin, Kolden, Stocks
Very large fires (VLFs) have important implications for communities, ecosystems, air quality and fire suppression expenditures. VLFs over the contiguous US have been strongly linked with meteorological and climatological variability. Building on prior modelling of VLFs (>5000…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Le Page, Morton, Bond-Lamberty, Pereira, Hurtt
Vegetation fires are a major driver of ecosystem dynamics and greenhouse gas emissions. Anticipating potential changes in fire activity and their impacts relies first on a realistic model of fire activity (e.g., fire incidence and interannual variability) and second on a model…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Cochrane, Freeborn, Holden, Brown, Williamson, Bowman
Climate strongly influences global wildfire activity, and recent wildfire surges may signal fire weather-induced pyrogeographic shifts. Here we use three daily global climate data sets and three fire danger indices to develop a simple annual metric of fire weather season length…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS