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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Keywood, Kanakidou, Stohl, Dentener, Grassi, Meyer, Torseth, Edwards, Thompson, Lohmann, Burrows
Fire has a role in ecosystem services; naturally produced wildfires are important for the sustainability of many terrestrial biomes and fire is one of nature's primary carbon-cycling mechanisms. Under a warming climate, it is likely that fire frequency and severity will increase…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of disastrous wildfires through…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Whistler
This paper describes a system for preparing monthly outlooks for fire-weather elements in the United States. The system is based on multiple regression equations that specify monthly mean anomalies of precipitation, temperature, dewpoint, and wind speed from concurrent anomalies…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Canadian/United States cooperative mass fire behavior and atmospheric environmental impact study
Over the past four years scientists have cooperatively monitored fire behavior and smoke chemistry, on a number of large prescribed fires in the Province of Ontario. Primary cooperating agencies include Forestry Canada, the United States Forest Service, the National Aeronautics…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown, Turner
Objectives of this study were to test existing prediction equations for duff depth reduction, percentage of duff consumed, and mineral soil exposure to determine the limits of their applicability, and to develop if possible broadly based prediction equations for use throughout…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richards
This paper shows how equations that simulate fire front growth for constant slope and spatially independent and velocity can be generalized to describe fire front growth for spatially and temporally varying fuel, topography and wind velocity. The equations are a set of first…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer
Firebrands spread fire efficiently, but their occurrence is difficult to understand and predict. It is obvious that potential firebrands form and burn-up continuously in any wildland fire, just as it is apparent that there is upward motion above a fire. But, firebrands do not…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin, Finney, Molina, Sapsis, Stephens, Scott, Weise
Dimensional analysis has potential to help explain and predict physical phenomena, but has been used very little in studies of wildland fire behavior. By combining variables into dimensionless groups, the number of variables to be handled and the experiments to be run is greatly…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rhoades
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Qu, Omi
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
These protocols were developed in order to have a statewide standard for requesting fire behavior analyses on wildland fires in Alaska and a process for prioritization of the requests as well as for ordering a fire behavior specialist to complete the analysis. It is not intended…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire management is dictated by community and political pressure-at least that's what conventional wisdom in the fire community tells us. However, few studies have investigated the validity of that axiom, and little is known about the relative influence of internal and external…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, McBride
In an effort to improve organizational outcomes, including safety, in wildland fire management, researchers and practitioners have turned to a domain of research on organizational performance known as High Reliability Organizing (HRO). The HRO paradigm emerged in the late 1980s…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mavsar, González-Cabán, Varela
Forest fires affect millions of people worldwide, and cause major ecosystem and economic impacts at different scales. The management policies implemented to minimize the negative impacts of forest fires require substantial investment of financial, human and organizational…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ott
The Forest Service expends nearly 50 percent of its budget on wildfire management activities and invested $29.5 million in 2005 in firefighter training and leadership development, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (USDA OIG) (2010). The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York
Presentation about the Alaska Fire Science Consortium from the 2013 AFSC Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McDaniel, MacDowell
This is the third presentation held on the third day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Brenna MacDowell and Josh McDaniel, both of the Lessons Learned Center, discuss the Lessons Learned Center. This webinar originally aired on March 28, 2013.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Whalen
This is the fifth presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Mike Whalen, BLM, discusses qualifications, successional planning, and the provisions that are being made to Incident Management Teams and what they will look like. This webinar…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Maricle, Zahn
This is the fourth presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Martin Maricle, Alaska Division of Forestry, will discuss the use of Alaska fresh food boxes on incidents in alaska due to the lack of National caterers. Sue Zahn, US Forest…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bidaburu
This is the second presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Aitor Bidaburu, National Fire Administration, presents recent decisions, ongoing, and longer term action items made by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. He closes with a…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Christensen, Stingley, Smith
This webinar introduces the 2013 National Logistics Webinar series. Agency updates are also discussed. Speakers include Martin Maricle, Alaska Div Forestry, NLW co-chair and moderator; Kim Christensen, US Forest Service; Susie Stingley, National Interagency Coordination Center;…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES