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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alkhatib
Context. Apart from causing tragic loss of lives and valuable natural and individual properties including thousands of hectares of forest and hundreds of houses, forest fires are a great menace to ecologically healthy grown forests and protection of the environment. Every year,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hokkaido University (HU) is one of the world leaders in developing new earth-observing space technology. Dr. Koji Nakau leads their wildfire remote sensing applications team. He's working with various partners-including UAF-on new satellite-derived products delivered to wildland…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goldstein
[Not the abstract; do not cite.] Primarily dedicated to the influence of climate on white spruce near treeline; dendrochronological samples were used to reconstruct stand age and describe the history of disturbance for treeline stands of white spruce in the south-central Brooks…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
The FFI ecological monitoring utilities are an integration of FEAT and FIREMON, two respected, science-based programs used for fire effects monitoring on public lands. Funded by the Interagency Fuels Management Committee and developed jointly by the National Park Service and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palmer
Experimental, free-burning wood fires larger than 5 ha were similar in convection column volume after the initial buoyant, ring-vortex rose from the ground. The fire generated strong vorticity patterns which propagated upward into the convection column. The rotation suppressed…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bankston, Zinn, Browner, Powell
This paper is concerned with the investigation of the detailed aspects of smoke generation during the burning of natural and synthetic solid materials under simulated fire conditions. With this objective in mind, the first portion of the paper is devoted to a review of relevant…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard
Consume v 4.2 reflects an improved understanding of fuel consumption and emissions in wildland fire throughout major fuel types in the United States. Consume is a decision-making tool, designed to assist resource managers in planning for prescribed fire, wildland fire for use,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz, Vaillant
The suggestion has been made that most wildland fire operations personnel base their expectations of how a fire will behave largely on experience and, to a lesser extent, on guides to predicting fire behavior (Burrows 1984). Experienced judgment is certainly needed in any…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schoeffler
Recognizing dark bands (dry slots) in satellite water vapor imagery reveals surface and near-surface drying and winds that can adversely affect fire behavior and firefighter safety. A review of the literature regarding mid- to upper-atmosphere influences on wildland fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Ellison, Faulring, Holley, Hornsby, Hudak, Ichoku, Kremens, Loudermilk, Maben, Martinez, O'Brien, Paxton, Schroeder, Zajkowski
An ongoing challenge in fire measurement is obtaining quantitative and validated measurements of fire power (kW m-2) and energy (kJ m-2) across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Our approach to measurement has been hierarchical, where characterization of the fire heat…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fourth Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference was held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, February 18-22, 2013. The theme for this conference was At The Crossroads: Looking Toward the Future in a Changing Environment. Joint sponsorship of the conference was by the International…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayes, Kasischke, Billings, Boelman, Colt, Fisher, Goetz, Griffith, Grosse, Hall, Harriss, Karchut, Larson, Mack, McGuire, McLennan, Metsaranta, Miller, Rawlins, Striegel, Sturm, Sweeney, Varner, Wickland, Wullschleger
Climate change in the Arctic and Boreal region is unfolding faster than anywhere else on Earth, resulting in reduced Arctic sea ice, thawing of permafrost soils, decomposition of long- frozen organic matter, widespread changes to lakes, rivers, coastlines, and alterations of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Law, Stohl, Quinn, Brock, Burkhart, Paris, Ancellet, Singh, Roiger, Schlager, Dibb, Jacob, Arnold, Pelon, Thomas
Given the rapid nature of climate change occurring in the Arctic and the difficulty climate models have in quantitatively reproducing observed changes such as sea ice loss, it is important to improve understanding of the processes leading to climate change in this region,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Nelson
Vegetation structure, including forest canopy height, is an important input variable to fire behavior modeling systems for simulating wildfire behavior. As such, forest canopy height is one of a nationwide suite of products generated by the LANDFIRE program. In the past,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alden
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strader
Presented at the 2014 CFFDRS in Alaska Summit Workshop on October 28, 2014.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alden
Presented at the 2014 CFFDRS in Alaska Summit Workshop on October 28, 2014.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fronterhouse
Presented at the CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Higgins, Miller, Hrobak, Saperstein
The following process can be used for drying duff, foliar, woody, and herbaceous fuel moisture samples along with entering data and calculating moisture content and the CFFDRS Indices.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of this workshop is to learn about and discuss various aspects of smoke management associated with wildland fire in the Southwestern United States. Wildland fire encompasses prescribed fire and wildfire. Topics include fire ecology and technical tools; health and…
Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Stanek
2014 briefing presentation by Lindsay Wichers Stanek. Delivered to the National Wildland Fire Coordinating Group Smoke Committee. The presentation describes EPA's next generation air monitoring efforts.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Swedin, Eagle
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
Year: 2014
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ward, Sandberg
This publication presents tables on the behavior of fire and the resistance of fuels to control. The information is to be used with the publication, "Photo Series for Quantifying Forest Residues in the Ponderosa Pine Type, Ponderosa Pine and Associated Species Type, Lodgepole…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS