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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Loehle
Fire spreads in a specifically spatial manner, which suggests the applicability of percolation models to the risk reduction problem. It is shown that under fairly general conditions a threshold exists below which a landscape becomes essentially fireproof. Arranging treated acres…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
van Mantgem, Schwartz
We subjected 159 small ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex P. & C. Laws.) to treatments designed to test the relative importance of stem damage as a predictor of postfire mortality. The treatments consisted of a group with the basal bark artificially thinned, a second…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Tymstra, Frederick
A workshop was held at the Provincial Forest Fire Centre in Edmonton on September 23, 2004 where wildland fire research and fire operations personnel (T. Van Nest, D. Quintilio, J. Beverly, D. Cousin, G. Baxter and authors) reviewed and discussed the currently available…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
A dynamic vegetation model has been used to predict patterns of recent past and potential future change in taiga forest ecosystems of interior Alaska. The model, called CASA (Carnegie Ames Stanford Approach), is a process-based ecosystem depiction of plant and soil processes,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaufman, Ager, Anderson, Anderson, Andrews, Bartlein, Brubaker, Coats, Cwynar, Duvall, Dyke, Edwards, Eisner, Gajewski, Geirsdottir, Hu, Jennings, Kaplan, Kerwin, Lozhkin, MacDonald, Miller, Mock, Oswald, Otto-Bliesner, Porinchu, Ruhland, Smol, Steig, Wolfe
The spatio-temporal pattern of peak Holocene warmth (Holocene thermal maximum, HTM) is traced over 140 sites across the Western Hemisphere of the Arctic (0-180 degrees W; north of 60 degrees N). Paleoclimate inferences based on a wide variety of proxy indicators provide clear…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hillebrand
The decline of biodiversity with latitude has received great attention, but both the concise pattern and the causes of the gradient are under strong debate. Most studies of the latitudinal gradient comprise only one or few organism types and are often restricted to certain…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoder, Blatner
Prescribed fire use for wildfire fuel reduction entails trading one risk for another. Because these risks change over time as vegetation matures, prescribed fire use for wildfire risk mitigation can be viewed as a timing problem. We examine economic incentives for prescribed…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, Pendleton, Pendleton
Prescribed fire was used in two separate semi-arid grasslands to reduce shrub cover, promote grass production through reduced competition by shrubs, and reduce danger from potential wildfire in the urban/wildland interface. The cover of woody shrubs, grass, and bare ground cover…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wheeler
Efforts to reduce fire danger in the wildland/urban interface (WUI) are finally getting the attention they deserve. National and State funding is addressing a century of ecosystem degradation. Local communities are practicing preventive maintenance through fuels reduction and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rohde
I recently completed a study providing insight into critical decisions by command officers on some of California's most notorious wildfires in the wildland/urban interface (WUI). My study focused on the first several hours of response to the fires, a period of time when…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Galyardt, Queen, Ward
The wildland fire situation analysis (WFSA) is a great way to assess wildland fires that escape initial attack. It documents the situation, sets forth objectives, and facilitates communication on the ground. Yet it has a basic drawback: the WFSA relies entirely on text to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viegas
Forest fire behaviour analysis and prediction is based on the assumption that for a given set of boundary conditions a steady-state of fire propagation exists with a well-defined rate of spread. The evolution of a fire front for linear and point ignited fires is analysed and it…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vaz, André, Viegas
The standard formula used to estimate the radiation extinction coefficient, kb (m-1), of solid porous natural fuel beds is examined and tested against laboratory experiments with isotropic beds of pine needles in the range of packing ratio, β, of 0.01-0.02. To measure kb in…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Coen, Latham
This paper describes a coupled fire-atmosphere model that uses a sophisticated high-resolution non-hydrostatic numerical mesoscale model to predict the local winds which are then used as input to the prediction of fire spread. The heat and moisture fluxes from the fire are then…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Marcelli, Santoni, Simeoni, Leoni, Porterie
The aim of this article is twofold. First, it concerns the improvement of knowledge on the fundamental physical mechanisms that control the propagation of forest fires. To proceed, an experimental apparatus was designed to study, in laboratory conditions, the flame of a fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viegas
The vectoring of wind and slope effects on a flame front is considered. Mathematical methods for vectoring are presented and compared to results of laboratory experiments. The concept of multiple standard fire spread directions is presented. The experimental laboratory study,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
By using parcel model theory to construct a two-dimensional parameter space formed by low-level atmospheric stability and moisture, a simple framework on which to examine certain fire parcel properties associated with vertical column development is established. This framework is…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Groot, Wein
Betula glandulosa survives over a wide range of North American fire regimes by resprouting from the rhizome. Over-winter root carbohydrate reserves are important to sprout production and growth in the following spring. Nursery and field experiments were conducted to examine the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
A report highlighting the progress and accomplishments of Forest Service Research and Development under the National Fire Plan in fiscal year 2003. It describes research findings, tool developments, technology transfer, and research highlights in four key areas: firefighting,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Cohen, Running, Gower
Data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor has been used since 2001 by NASA scientists to produce eight-day estimates of Gross Primary Production (GPP) and annual estimates of Net Primary Production (NPP) for each 1-km2 cell of the Earth's…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan, Jones, Troutwine, Krueger, Zuuring, Meneghin
MAGIS eXpress is a modeling system for spatially-explicit analysis of timber harvest scheduling and access management. GIS (Geographic Information System) layers are imported and used as the basis for formulating harvest and access models. Access issues that can be addressed…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Ollinger, Kimball
A growing body of research has demonstrated the complementary nature of remote sensing and ecosystem modeling in studies of terrestrial carbon cycling. Whereas remote sensing instruments are designed to capture spatially continuous information on the reflectance properties of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tabazadeh, Yokelson, Singh, Hobbs, Crawford, Iraci
In this report we analyze airborne measurements to suggest that methanol in biomass burning smoke is lost heterogeneously in clouds. When a smoke plume intersected a cumulus cloud during the SAFARI 2000 field project, the observed methanol gas phase concentration rapidly…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy, Kamke
The USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (Madison, Wisconsin) and the Wood-Based Composites Center of Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia) co-sponsored a conference, held November 5-6, 2003, in Madison, Wisconsin, on the fundamentals of composite processing. The goals…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy, Stark, Clemons
Wood-plastic composite decking has made major advances in material performance, processing and user acceptance. The growth of wood-plastic composite decking in North America has grown from less than 1% in mid-90's to over 10% today with growth projected by several studies to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES