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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ryan, Reinhardt
We used data on 2356 trees from 43 prescribed fires in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington states to model postfire tree mortality. Data were combined for seven species of conifers to develop binary logistic regression models for predicting the probability of mortality.…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Artsybashev
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prichard, Sandberg, Ottmar, Eberhardt, Andreu, Eagle, Swedin
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a software module that records wildland fuel characteristics and calculates potential fire behavior and hazard potentials based on input environmental variables. The FCCS 3.0 is housed within the Integrated Fuels Treatment…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Patterson, McMahon, Ward
Data on the optical absorption properties (expressed as a specific absorption, Ba) of the smoke emissions from fires with forest fuels have been determined for a series of low-intensity field fires and a series of laboratory scale fires. The Ba data have been used to estimate…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nelson
Eighteen experimental fires were used to compare measured and calculated values for emission factors and fuel consumption to evaluate the carbon balance technique. The technique is based on a model for the emission factor of carbon dioxide, corrected for the production of other…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McMahon
Forest fires can be divided into two broad classes-wildfires and prescribed fires. Wildfires, whether caused by nature (lightning, etc.) or by the accidental or malicious acts of man, are not planned by forest managers and do not occur under controlled conditions. They can be…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
de Groot, Pritchard, Lynham
In many forest types, over half of the total stand biomass is located in the forest floor. Carbon emissions during wildland fire are directly related to biomass (fuel) consumption. Consumption of forest floor fuel varies widely and is the greatest source of uncertainty in…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Boby, Schuur, Mack, Verbyla, Johnstone
The boreal region stores a large proportion of the world's terrestrial carbon (C) and is subject to high-intensity, stand-replacing wildfires that release C and nitrogen (N) stored in biomass and soils through combustion. While severity and extent of fires drives overall…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blackard, Finco, Helmer, Holden, Hoppus, Jacobs, Lister, Moisen, Nelson, Riemann, Ruefenacht, Salajanu, Weyermann, Winterberger, Brandeis, Czaplewski, McRoberts, Patterson, Tycio
Annotation: This paper presents a spatially explicit dataset of aboveground live forest biomass made from ground measured inventory plots for the conterminous U.S., Alaska and Puerto Rico. The plot data are from the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behavior over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models of fire behavior and fire effects were added to FVS to form the FFE…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riccardi, Prichard, Ottmar, Sandberg
Wildfires are a natural, reoccurring, and essential component of ecological communities worldwide. Decades of fire exclusion and altered fire regimes have had substantial ecological consequences, including increased fuel loads. Fuel loads are diverse in their physical attributes…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Wright, Prichard
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (FERA) of the Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, is an interdisciplinary team of scientists that conduct primary research on wildland fire and provide decision support for fire hazard and smoke management.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Sandberg, Bluhm
A total of 226 dispersed plots, and 126 intensive plots were classified before and after a prescribed burn, and assessed for biomass and burn severity.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mead
Vegetation phytomass tables are presented for the Tanana River basin. Average phytomass for each species of tree, shrub, grass, forb, lichen, and moss in 13 forest and 30 nonforest vegetation types is shown. These data combined with area estimates for each vegetation type…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kurz, Apps, Webb, McNamee
An assessment of the contribution of Canadian forest ecosystems and forestry activities to the global carbon budget was undertaken. The first phase of this study consisted of the development of a computer modeling framework and the use of published information to establish the…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seiler, Crutzen
In order to estimate the production of charcoal and the atmospheric emissions of trace gases volatilized by burning we have estimated the global amounts of biomass which are affected by fires. We have roughly calculated annual gross burning rates ranging between about 5 Pg and 9…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wang, Bond-Lamberty, Gower
The objective of this study was to quantify carbon (C) distribution for boreal black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) stands comprising a fire chronosequence in northern Manitoba, Canada. The experimental design included seven well-drained (dry) and seven poorly-drained (wet)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Payne, Stocks, Robinson, Wasey, Strapp
Combustion aerosol particles from boreal forest fires were quantified to facilitate investigation of the potential effects of increased fire activity caused by global warming, by providing data inputs for global and regional climate modelling of the direct and indirect effects.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Krankina, Harmon, Cohen, Oetter, Zyrina, Duane
Forest inventories and remote sensing are the two principal data sources used to estimate carbon (C) stocks and fluxes for large forest regions. National governments have historically relied on forest inventories for assessments but developments in remote sensing technology…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Hyer, Novelli, Bruhwiler, French, Sukhinin, Hewson, Stocks
There were large interannual variations in burned area in the boreal region (ranging between 3.0 and 23.6x106 ha yr-1) for the period of 1992 and 1995-2003 which resulted in corresponding variations in total carbon and carbon monoxide emissions. We estimated a range of carbon…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Czimczik, Schmidt, Schulze
Fires in boreal forests frequently convert organic matter in the organic layer to black carbon, but we know little of how changing fire frequency alters the amount, composition and distribution of black carbon and organic matter within soils, or affects podzolization. We…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Allen, Prepas, Gabos, Strachan, Chen
The water chemistry of the euphotic zone in 12 lakes within burned and reference watersheds on Alberta's Boreal Plain was surveyed two years post-fire. Five burned and four reference lakes were located in the Boreal Foothills (mean elevation=1048 m) and three reference lakes…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Howell, Belmont, McAllister, Finney
Wildfire spread models that couple physical transport and chemical kinetics sometimes simplify or neglect gas-phase pyrolysis product oxidation chemistry. However, empirical evidence suggests that oxygen (O2) is available for gas-phase and solid-phase combustion within the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tidwell, Brown
From the text ... 'One way to protect the WUI is to restore surrounding landscapes to a healthy, resilient condition. Healthy, resilient forest ecosystems are less likely to see uncharacteristically severe wildfires that turn into human and ecological disasters. The USDA Forest…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hsi, Kuo
Estimating solid residue gross burning rate and heating value burning in a power plant furnace is essential for adequate manipulation to achieve energy conversion optimization and plant performance. A model based on conservation equations of mass and thermal energy is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS