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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
[From the Introduction] Fire as a landscape process is of broad interest to ecologists and land managers. Fires alter forest age-distributions (Heinselman, 1973; Van Wagner, 1978), are sensitive to climate (Balling et al., 1992, Swetnam and Bettancourt, 1990; Swetnam, 1993;…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gardner, Romme, Turner
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wotton, McAlpine, Hobbs
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fighting large wildland fires is often compared to a military operation. Each involves such things as: an organization with a general at the head, massive movements of personnel and equipment; tactical aerial support, and long periods of combat and stress until the enemy is…
Year: 1996
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bond, van Wilgen
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rittenhouse
From the text...'The help desk staff works closely with all agencies involved in wildland fire and aviation management to provide technical updates, new and updated applications, and notifications affecting fire application users. The help desk currently supports more than 40…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunton
From the text...'In May 1998, the National Advisory Group for Fire Danger Rating reviewed and approved a new weather observation data transfer format (WxObs98)...This decision signals the impending retirement of the weather observation format developed for the 1972 version of…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albright, Meisner
From the text...'A fire simulation system combines an underlying fire prediction model with a fire simulation technique. By categorizing the various types of fire prediction models and simulation techniques, we can identify the similarities and differences among the systems. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finney, Andrews
From the text...'The FARSITE Fire Area Simulator is a computer program designed to simulate fire growth using existing models of fire behavior found in the BEHAVE Fire Behavior Prediction and Fuel Modeling System (Andrews 1986) and in the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Werth
From the text...'In conclusion, El Niño and La Niña are extreme phases of a naturally occurring climatic cycle known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation. Both affect wind and sea surface temperature patterns in the tropical Pacific Ocean. El Niño is the warm water and La Niña…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Forest Ecosystem Classification (FEC) systems have been used in the past mainly for forest management decision-making. FEC systems can also serve an important role for decision-making in other disciplines, such as fire management for both wildfire suppression and prescribed…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vega-García, Lee, Woodard, Titus
Human-caused forest fires are a serious problem throughout the world. Believing that there are predictable characteristics common to all fires, we analyzed the historical human-caused fire occurrence data for the Whitecourt Provincial Forest of Alberta using artificial neural…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
A series of experimental fires was conducted to document point-source fire growth burning on full-tree harvested jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) sites with a feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi (B.S.G.) Mitt.) duff layer. Results showed that the time for any of the fires to…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weise, Biging
The combined effects of wind velocity and percent slope on flame length and angle were measured in an open-topped, tilting wind tunnel by burning fuel beds composed of vertical birch sticks and aspen excelsior. Mean flame length ranged from 0.08 to 1.69 m; 0.25 m was the maximum…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen, Ruedy, Sato, Reynolds
Global surface air temperature has increased about 0.5°C from the minimum of mid-1992, a year after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. Both a land-based surface air temperature record and a land-marine temperature index place the meteorological year 1995 at approximately the same level…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Lower atmosphere moistures, temperatures, winds, and lapse rates are examined for the days of 339 fires over 400 ha in the United States from 1971 through 1984. These quantities are compared with a climatology dataset from the same 14-year period using 2-way unbalanced analysis…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Korb, Dybwad, Wadsworth, Salisbury
A hand-held, battery-powered Fourier transform infrared spectroradiometer weighing 12.5 kg has been developed for the field measurement of spectral radiance from the Earth's surface and atmosphere in the 3-5-µm and 8-14-µm atmospheric windows, with a 6-cm -1 spectral resolution…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trelles, McGrattan, Baum
The effect that the wind's vertical variation has on fire plume behaviour is investigated. A parabolized set of governing equations are discretized using finite differences to arrive at the numerical model. Lagrangian particles are used to visualize the flow, account for…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGrattan, Baum, Rehm
A large eddy simulation (LES) model of smoke plumes generated by large outdoor pool fires is presented. The plume is described in terms of steady-state convective transport by a uniform ambient wind of heated gases and particulate matter introduced into a stably stratified…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hirsch
The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System provides a systematic method of assessing fire behavior. The FBP System has 14 primary inputs that can be divided into 5 general categories: fuels, weather, topography, foliar moisture content, and type and duration of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The FORBS Program is based on the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS). It utilizes existing Personal Computer Historical Analysis (PCHA), Interagency Initial Attack Assessment (IIAA), and Arc View processes. FORBS is tied to the Suppression Analysis developed in…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
We begin our study of wildland fire with the basic principles and mechanisms of the combustion process-fire fundamentals. In the next chapter we look at wildland fire as an event. Fire behavior is what a fire does, the dynamics of the fire event. In later chapters we move up the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Persson
Fire blight was for the first time observed in a pear orchard in southern Sweden in 1986. Since 1989 the disease has spread along the south and west coast with the most frequent number of new outbreaks in 1990. Besides pear, hawthorn, apple, Sorbus aria and Cotoneaster…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES