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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander, Stam
The fire environment on Kenai Peninsula and in south-central Alaska has experienced significant changes due to the recent spruce beetle epidemic (Fastabend 2002). Firefighters and fire researchers do not have enough experience with wildland fires that occur in the dead-spruce/…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Shannon, Butler
Temperature has been used extensively to characterize wildland fire behavior, intensity, and effects. The thermocouple has become one of the most used instruments to measure this quantity. Although the devices are inexpensive, convenient and easy to use, there can be significant…
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
Sandberg, Chapin, Hinzman
A landscape-scale prescribed research burn in the boreal forest of interior Alaska, FROSTFIRE, was an unmitigated success for scientists and fire managers. Planning over a 5-year period culminated in a safe and successful burn during 8-15 July 1999. Within the 1,000-ha fire…
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
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
Potter
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg, Prichard, Riccardi
The ongoing development of sophisticated fire behavior, fire effects, and carbon balance models and the implementation of large landscape assessments has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuelbed classification that more accurately captures the structural…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
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
Hayasaka
This paper describes forest fires and weather in Alaska, North America and Sakha, Eastern part or Far East Siberia. Number of forest fires in Sakha is three times greater than that of Alaska. On the other hand, the mean annual burnt area in both places is almost the same and is…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hayasaka, Lynch
Partial abstract: The Frostfire forest fire experiment was carried out in a boreal forest in the taiga zone of Alaska during July 1999. We studied the probability of ignition for lightning-caused forest fires by analyzing lightning-flash data and forest fire data provided by…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beverly
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The fire monitoring program described in this Fire Monitoring Handbook (FMH) allows the National Park Service to document basic information, to detect trends, and to ensure that each park meets its fire and resource management objectives. From identified trends, park staff can…
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
Harden, Meier, Silapaswan, Swanson, McGuire
Soil drainage, as defined by water-holding capacity, hydraulic conductivity, and position of seasonal water table, is closely associated with soil C storage because of controls on plant production, decomposition, fire severity, and fire frequency. As an initial regional…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Graham, McCaffrey
[From the summary] Fuels management can reduce negative impacts of fire, benefit forest health, and provide social and economic benefits. Forest thinning and prescribed burning are two land-management techniques long employed by foresters and others to maintain forest health and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, McKay, Nagel, Piepho, Rorig, Anderson, Kellogg
To assess values of air quality and visibility at risk from wildland fire in the United States, we generated a 40-year database that includes twice daily values of wind, mixing height, and a ventilation index that is the product of windspeed and mixing height. The database…
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
WFSA Plus 03 is an automated tool designed to improve decision-making and documentation for wildland fire management. The software helps you organize, analyze and present data used in preparing a Wildland Fire Implementation Plan (WFIP) and a Wildland Fire Situation Analysis (…
Year: 2003
Type: Tool
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
A user guide for the Wildland Fire Situation Analysis (WFSA) Plus 03 software tool. WFSA Plus 03 is designed to improve decision-making and documentation for wildland fire management. The software helps you organize, analyze and present data used in preparing a Wildland Fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Benson, Key, Lutes
A sampling strategy for monitoring fire effects must provide for the integration and linkage of ecosystem response across these multiple time and space scales to provide meaningful data to fire management. Includes FIREMON documents for Plot Description, Tree Data, Fuel Load,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES