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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Taylor
FULL TEXT: In the summer of 2005, wildfires raged over 3.4 million hectares of Alaska and Canada's northern boreal forests, according to combined figures from the Canadian Large Fire Database and the Alaska Large Fires Database. It was the region's second worst fire season on…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stewart, Radeloff, Hammer, Hawbaker
Federal wildland fire policy in the United States has been substantially revised over the past 10 years and new emphasis has been given to the wildland- urban interface (WUI), which creates a need for information about the WUI's location and extent. We operationalized a policy…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Soja, Tchebakova, French, Flannigan, Shugart, Stocks, Sukhinin, Varfenova, Chapin, Stackhouse
For about three decades, there have been many predictions of the potential ecological response in boreal regions to the currently warmer conditions. In essence, a widespread, naturally occurring experiment has been conducted over time. In this paper, we describe previously…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schaaf, Sandberg, Schreuder, Riccardi
This paper presents a conceptual framework for ranking the crown fire potential of wildland fuelbeds with forest canopies. This approach extends the work by Van Wagner and Rothermel, and introduces several new physical concepts to the modeling of crown fire behaviour derived…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rupp, Chen, Olson, McGuire
Projected climatic warming has direct implications for future disturbance regimes, particularly fire-dominated ecosystems at high latitudes, where climate warming is expected to be most dramatic. It is important to ascertain the potential range of climate change impacts on…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Riccardi, Schaaf
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) includes equations that calculate energy release and one-dimensional spread rate in quasi-steady state fires in heterogeneous but spatially-uniform wildland fuelbeds, using a reformulation of the widely used Rothermel fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Riccardi, Schaaf
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a systematic catalog of inherent physical properties of wildland fuelbeds that allows land managers, policy makers, and scientists to build and calculate fuel characteristics with complete or incomplete information. The…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Riccardi, Prichard, Sandberg, Ottmar
Wildland fuel characteristics are used in many applications of operational fire predictions and to understand fire effects and behaviour. Even so, there is a shortage of information on basic fuel properties and the physical characteristics of wildland fuels. The Fuel…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riccardi, Ottmar, Sandberg, Andreu, Elman, Kopper, Long
Wildland fuelbed characteristics are temporally and spatially complex and can vary widely across regions. To capture this variability, we designed the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), a national system to create fuelbeds and classify those fuelbeds for their…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pu, Li, Gong, Csiszar, Fraser, Hao, Kondragunta, Weng
Fires in boreal and temperate forests play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. While forest fires in North America (NA) have been surveyed extensively by U.S. and Canadian forest services, most fire records are limited to seasonal statistics without information on…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Haggstrom
Fire suppression and limited timber markets presently hinder maintenance of the early successional broad-leaved forest for wildlife habitat near settlements in interior Alaska. During 1999-2003, we evaluated the efficacy of prescribed burning, felling, and shearblading (with and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Otway, Bork, Anderson, Alexander
The manner in which trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest duff moisture changes during the growing season was investigated in Elk Island National Park, Alberta, Canada. A calibration-validation procedure incorporating one calibration site with moisture sampling…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg, Riccardi, Prichard
We present an overview of the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), a tool that enables land managers, regulators, and scientists to create and catalogue fuelbeds and to classify those fuelbeds for their capacity to support fire and consume fuels. The fuelbed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ononye, Vodacek, Saber
Remotely sensed infrared images are often used to assess wildland fire conditions. Separately, fire propagation models are in use to forecast future conditions. In the Dynamic Data-Driven Application System (DDDAS) concept, the fire propagation model will react to the image data…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Novozhilov, Stephenson, Overking, Landolt, Laursen
The moist chamber culture technique was used to investigate the assemblages of myxomycetes (plasmodial slime moulds or myxogastrids) associated with the microhabitats represented by the bark surface of living black spruce (Picea mariana) trees and forest floor leaf litter in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Natcher, Calef, Huntington, Trainor, Huntington, DeWilde, Rupp, Chapin
Although wildfire has been central to the ecological dynamics of Interior Alaska for 5000 yr, the role of humans in this dynamic is not well known. As a multidisciplinary research team, together with native community partners, we analyzed patterns of human-fire interaction in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mölders, Kramm
As especially observed during the 2004 Alaska fire season, huge wildfires drastically alter land cover leading to a change in the dynamic (roughness length), radiative (albedo, emissivity), vegetative (vegetation type and fraction, stomatal resistance), thermal (soil heating,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP's) are one of the more important means of reducing risk to communities and ecosystems of catastrophic wildfires. Enhancing collaboration and building community capacity are viewed as a means insuring that these plans are responsive to…
Year: 2007
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Belleau, Bergeron, Leduc, Gauthier, Fall
It is now recognized that in the Canadian boreal forest, timber harvesting activities have replaced wildfires as the main stand-replacing disturbance. Differences in landscape patterns derived from these two sources of disturbance have, however, raised concerns that the way…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abbott, Leblon, Staples, MacLean, Alexander
The goal of this study was to evaluate the potential use of RADARSAT-1 images to assess daily variations in dead fuel moisture over a northern boreal forest area, as parameterized by the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The study area was located in the south-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abbott, Alexander, MacLean, Leblon, Beck, Staples
We assessed how well the fuel moisture codes of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System can be used to predict forest floor moisture in burned and in mature, unburned jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) stands in Canada's Northwest Territories. Moisture content sampled at…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mughal, Hussaini, Goodrick, Cunningham
In an investigation of the dynamics of coupled fluid-combustion-buoyancy driven problems, an idealised model formulation is used to investigate the role of buoyancy and heat release in an evolving boundary layer, with particular emphasis on examining underlying fluid dynamics to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Jandt
From intro: 'The Arctic is currently exhibiting signs of rapid change which are especially pronounced in tussock tundra ecosystems. Factors known to be affecting these changes include wildfire, disturbance by caribou, global climate change and shrub expansion. These factors are…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hom, Clark, Van Tuyl, Cole, Skowronski, Pan, Somes
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayasaka, Jandt
In 2004 and 2005, many large-scale forest fires occurred in Alaska. Intense lightning storms in June caused most fires. Many fires grew into large-scale fires with the help of severe drought and Chinook or foehn wind phenomena. The result was the largest area burned since record…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES