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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Scott, Reinhardt, Helmy
Reinhardt and Scott (this conference) described methods and initial results of a field study of canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands. In this poster we present a preliminary stereo photo guide for estimating canopy characteristics in conifer forests derived from…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Scott, Burgan
With the publication of his surface fire spread model in 1972, Rothermel provided a listing of 11 preliminary fuel models. A fuel model is a complete set of fuel inputs needed to use the Rothermel fire spread model (load and surface-are-to-volume ratio by size class and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Hardy, Weise, Rehm, Linn
The Core Fire Science Caucus is a self-directed team of fire scientists who are dedicated to improving the core physical science basis for fire management. Our goal is to provide fire managers with the ability to plan for and predict (in real time) the nature of the combustion…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
The National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) were developed to assess and predict wildfire danger in the forests of the United States and Canada. In addition, the fire weather index components of these systems are…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rollins, Keane, Zhu, Menakis, Hann, Shlisky
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roberts, Dennison
Wildfire is one of the most significant forms of natural disturbance, impacting a wide range of ecosystems ranging from boreal forests to Mediterranean shrublands and tropical rainforest. One of the greatest uncertainties in assessing fire danger is our knowledge of fuels. Fuel…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riggan, Hoffman
Airborne trials have produced the first applications of a new thermal-imaging radiometer, the FireMapper, which is a unique three-channel, calibrated imaging system designed through a Research Joint Venture between the USDA Forest Service and Space Instruments, Inc. FireMapper…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riebau, Fox
Fires can be catastrophic, but only when the weather permits. Predicting the weather more than a few hours into the future with accuracy, precision and reliability is an on-going challenge to researchers. Accurate and precise forecasting for more than a few hours into the future…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter, Goodrick, Brown
Fire managers and forecasters must have tools, such as fire indices, to summarize large amounts of complex information. These tools allow them to identify and plan for periods of elevated risk and/or wildfire potential. This need was once met using simple measures like relative…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Menakis, Hann, Miller, Bunnell
Over the last couple of decades, we have seen a tremendous increase in the size, number, and intensity of wildfires in the United States, resulting in Congress implementing the National Fire Plan and Forest Service and Department of Interior writing Cohesive Strategies to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lutes, Keane, Caratti, Gangi, Key, Benson, Sutherland
FIREMON is a fire effects monitoring and inventory protocol developed for interagency use through a grant from the Joint Fire Science Program. It is designed to help the fire manager determine how plots should be placed on the landscape and what sampling methods should used at…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Long, Rollins, Hann
LANDFIRE's objectives are to provide broad scale, comprehensive information about the distribution of fuel characteristics and fire regimes across the United States based on the best available geographic and wildland fire science. This information will be fine-grained enough for…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Rollins, Parsons
The LANDFIRE (LANDscape and FIRE Management Planning System, www.landfire.gov) project was initiated to provide scientifically credible, comprehensive and critical mid-scale data for prioritization and planning to implement the National Fire Plan, both at the national and local…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hoffman, Riggan, Griffin, Grush, Grush, Pena
FireMapper®2.0 is a second-generation airborne system developed specifically for wildfire mapping and remote sensing. Its design is based on lessons learned from two years of flight-testing of a research FireMapper® system by the Pacific uthwest Research Station of the USDA…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beverly
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Theisen
Past disruptions of natural fire cycles, as well as other management practices, have resulted in wildfires of increasing intensity and severity. Treatment of hazardous fuel will help reduce the impacts of wildfires on communities and restore health to fire-adapted ecosystems.…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bevins, Seli
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a program for personal computers that is a collection of mathematical models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams. It can be used for a multitude of fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Keane
The primary objective of this project is: To revise the FOFEM computer model so new research results and computer technology are integrated into a complete and comprehensive fire effects prediction system suitable for supporting fuels management, environmental assessment, and…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brenner, Masters
In order to keep our focus and avoid unnecessary mission creep that could ultimately prevent us from achieving our objectives, we plan to invite specific personnel and agencies to this work shop. Our plan is to place three focal points at the workshop to represent the…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Li, Fraser, Jin, Abuelgasim, Csiszar, Gong, Pu, Hao
This paper presents an evaluation of advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR)-based remote sensing algorithms for detecting active vegetation fires [Li et al., 2000a] and mapping burned areas [Fraser et al., 2000] throughout North America. The procedures were originally…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schaaf
The document describes the Smoke Impact Spreadsheet (SIS) model, which is a screening-level modeling system for calculating PM2.5 emissions and airborne concentrations downwind of natural or managed wildland fires.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
FOFEM 5.0 (First Order Fire Effects Model) is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. FOFEM predicts tree mortality from surface fire, based on flame length or scorch height,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behaviour over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models of fire behavior and fire effects were added to FVS to form this…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall, Brown, Bradshaw
Currently, the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) produces a daily Energy Release Component (ERC) index. The ERC index is directly related to the total available energy (BTUs) per unit area (in square feet) within the flaming front at the head of a fire. It essentially…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu
Smoke from wildland fires is one of the sources of atmospheric anthropogenic aerosols. it can dramatically affect regional and global radiative balance. Ross et al. (1998) estimated a direct radiative forcing of nearly -20 Wm-2 for the 1995 Amazonian smoke season (August and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS