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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Finney, Edwards, Abbott, Barber, Anderson, Rohr
In semi-arid interior Alaska, precipitation is critical in regulating many important ecological and biogeochemical processes. For example, the growth of upland white spruce is strongly limited by growing season precipitation, and greenhouse trace gas fluxes are controlled in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
Wilderness fire science has progressed since the last major review of the topic, but it was significantly affected by the large fire events of 1988. Strides have been made in both fire behavior and fire effects, and in the issues of scaling, yet much of the progress has not been…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forty-one years ago, the AMS published the Glossary of Meteorology. Containing 7900 terms, more than 10,000 copies have been sold over four decades through five printings. It is a tribute to the editors of the first edition that it has withstood the test of time and continued to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Hilbruner, Werth, Sexton, Bartlette
The 1998 wildland fire season presented conditions favoring increased wildland fire numbers and rapid expansion of area affected. This situation posed complex issues to all wildland fire management agencies in terms of firefighting resource availability, allocation, and long-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Whiteman
[Excerpt from preface] Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications aims to heighten awareness and appreciation of the weather in mountainous areas by introducing the reader to the basic principles and concepts of mountain meteorology and by discussing applications of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
Fires in the northern interior have long been known to smolder for long periods. Because emission rates from smoldering smoke are small in comparison to rates of emissions during flaming, however, and because it is difficult to monitor smoldering fires, there are few…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
[From lead-in] Although there are many other fire behavior knowledge gaps and research needs that I could list here (e.g., development of models or guidelines for predicting fire vortex generation, plume-dominated or convectively dominated fires and safety zone size/…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lists the conference proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology as part of the 80th AMS Annual Meeting (Jan. 9-14, 2000 in Long Beach, CA).
Year: 2000
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads, Chen, Fujioka, Burgan
In fiscal year 1998, the USDA Forest Service reported that approximately 770,000 hectares (1.9 million acres) of state and private lands burned in the preceding year. Total presuppression and suppression costs were a hefty $585 million. As large as that sum was, it was still…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on flora and fuels can assist land managers with ecosystem and fire management planning and in their efforts to inform others about the ecological role of fire. Chapter topics include fire regime classification,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Clark, Radke, Coen
Airborne infrared (IR) observations were made of the prescribed burns between 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were made by pointing an Inframetrics PM380 IR camera out the left side of the USFS/NASA Piper…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
An understanding of the interaction of fuel, fire, burn severity, site, and site vegetation, is essential to predicting the primary and secondary short term and long term impacts of fire. After analyzing fire behavior and by following the changes in species composition and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Brittain
FireFamily Plus is the new software for summarizing and analyzing daily weather observations and computing fire danger indices 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: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
This chapter presents a broader, more fundamental view of the ecological principles and shifting fire regimes described in the previous chapters that have important implications for ecosystem management. Also included are strategies and approaches for managing fire in an…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sukhinin, Cahoon, Stocks
A GIS-based method has been developed for mapping weather-dependent fire danger index under the Mission to Planet Earth Program. This method uses information provided by AVHRR and TOVS instruments installed in NOAA satellites. The radiometric NOAA fire danger index has a close…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Flannigan, Corns
Changes in climatic conditions may influence both forest biomass accumulation rates and natural disturbance regimes. While changes in biomass accumulation of forests under various climatic conditions have been described by yield equations, large uncertainties exist with regard…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg
Fire is a critical disturbance process in determining the structure and distribution of the boreal forest. Fire in the boreal forest typically replaces most of the dominant vegetation cover, liberates substantial carbon and other elements to the atmosphere and stream flow, and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch, Kafka
Sustainable forest management in many of Canada*s forest ecosystems requires minimizing the socioeconomic impacts of fire and maximizing its ecological benefits. More specifically, while significant losses of life, property, and natural resources from wildfire are generally not…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White, Loftin
Woody perennials have invaded semiarid grasslands throughout the Southwestern United States. This invasion was coupled with decreased grass cover and increased runoff and soil erosion. Fire, which was a natural force that shaped and maintained the grasslands, is a management…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS