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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Werth, Ochoa
From the text ... 'The Haines Index is the first attempt to construct a formal fire-weather index based upon features of the lower atmosphere.Does it work?... This index uses the environmental lapse rate (temperature difference) within a layer of air coupled with its moisture…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schuster, Krebs
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knick, Dobkin, Rotenberry, Schroeder, Vander Haegen, Van Riper
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson, Ruthford, Rorig, Sandberg
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall, Brown, Bradshaw, Jolly, Nemani
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: TTRS
Zhu, Vogelmann, Huang
The 1999 1-km historical natural fire regime and fire regime condition class maps, developed by the Forest Service using baseline data produced by the USGS scientists for general applications, have been widely used for national fire management planning purposes. However, the use…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garfin, Wordell, Brown, Ochoa, Morehouse
Millions of acres are burned each year by wildland fires, in spite of much effort going into fuel treatments, prevention, and fire suppression. An array of effective decision-support products, tools, and processes is needed to anticipate regional resource needs, improve resource…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mohrle, Hall, Brown
In parts of the southwestern U.S., the commencement of the Southwest Monsoon initiates a decrease in wildland fire occurrence. Corresponding changes in meteorological elements such as relative humidity and dew point are some of the mitigating factors. For example, one commonly…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kolden, Brown
Prescribed fire is generally considered a useful tool in ecosystem restoration and hazardous fuels reduction. There are many variables associated with the decision process and level of control managers can assert over prescribed burning (e.g., risk, safety, contingency,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Neill, Ferguson, Peterson, Wilson
BlueSky is a real-time smoke forecast system that predicts surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities. Developed by the USDA Forest Service in cooperation with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is a tool used by…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rehm, Evans, McGrattan, Forney, Bouldin, Baker, Mell, Hostikka
This talk describes development of a physics-based mathematical and computational model to predict fire spread among structures and natural fuels (trees, shrubs and ground litter). This tool will be used to understand how fires spread in a community where both structures and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parisien, Kafka, Todd, Hirsch, Lavoie
This study examines the spatial relationship between large recent burns and their effect on the probability of burning in the western boreal forest of Canada. The burn probability (BP) provides an estimate of the present likelihood that a given point (e.g., cell) on a landscape…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacGregor, González-Cabán
Of the thousands of fires that occur each year on publicly managed lands, the vast majority are suppressed by initial actions undertaken by the local administrative unit. However, on relatively rare occasions fires become exceptionally large and can result in enormous resource…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacGregor, Dammann, Anderson
As federal land management agencies move into the 21st Century, one of the most challenging issues they face is the management of fuels to achieve both ecological objectives and to influence the potential for catastrophic and uncharacteristic wildfires. At a broad policy level,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paragi, Smart, Worum, Haggstrom
Modern fire suppression has the potential to alter the natural distribution of forest cover types and age classes, which has consequences for resource management. A 21,000 ha prescribed burn to enhance wildlife habitat and secondarily reduce continuity of coniferous fuels was…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scott
Originally designed as a short-life-span tool to explore the links between surface and crown fire behavior models, NEXUS was first released as an Excel spreadsheet in 1998. The modeling concepts developed for NEXUS have since been used in the Crown Mass program of Fuels…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quayle, Lannom, Finco, Norton, Warnick
The Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) in Salt Lake City, Utah uses imagery acquired by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor to produce wildland fire maps for the United States. The 'Active Fire Maps' provide a synoptic view…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baranyi
Enhancements in GIS technology will yield greater functionality for the fire community to make better decisions for wildland fire planning and response. These advances will provide insight into how to best solve old problems with novel GIS technology. The concept of a…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor, Bright, Bothwell, Carbin, Naden
Recently, forecasters at the Storm Prediction Center, in Norman, OK, have begun using short range ensemble forecast (SREF) output as guidance for their national fire weather outlooks. The SPC forecasters outlook critical and extremely critical fire weather areas, for a 24-48…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmidt, Prins
Since August of 2000 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) have been used to detect and monitor biomass burning in the Western Hemisphere on a half-hourly basis using the Wildfire Automated Biomass…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Howard, McKinley
Landsat imagery have been archived since 1972. These data provide an opportunity evaluate historical fires and review the recovery of the burned landscape. These data provide useful insights for management and planning. Landsat-based historical fire atlases have been compiled…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feltz, Moreau, Prins, Claid-Cook, Brown
Over the past 15 years meteorological satellites have been increasingly used for land surface applications, including fire detection and monitoring. Several automated algorithms now provide satellite derived fire products in near real time for hazards applications and to better…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz, Butler, Viegas
Fire behavior models are essential components of fire management decision support systems (DSS). Such models allow the estimation of fire behavior characteristics; information that is needed for prescribed fire planning, tactical decision support during ongoing wildfires and the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt
FOFEM 5.0 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, and tree species and size. It…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS