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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lahm
A 36-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. A presentation describing a progressive approach and overreaching principles of smoke management. Also covers the development…
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
O'Meilia
A 38-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation describes the purpose of Rx fire councils, provides an introduction to the Oklahoma (OK) prescribed Fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Werth
Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rorig
Introduction to WFDSS - Air Quality ToolsSmoke management is an important aspect of managing wildland fire. While mitigating smoke impacts from prescribed burns is important, smoke from large wildfire complexes (such as the AZ/NM fires in 2011) can expose millions of people to…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
The Fire Behavior Field Reference Guide (FBFRG) was developed as a hands-on user tool for field going FBAN's along with various operational personnel. The guide contains helpful references to fuels, weather, fuel models, and terrain features that are vital to field going fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Duffy
Paul A. Duffy presents the powerpoint, Early Season Forecasting of Fire Activity in Alaska, at the 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop in Fairbanks, Alaska on October 7, 2011. An annual area burned forecast model has been developed using monthly temperature and precipitation and…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Perrakis
Kerry Anderson of the Canadian Forest Service, begins this presentation on the Probabilistic Fire Analysis System (PFAS) by presenting his thesis work on fire growth modeling at multiple scales. Fire growth modeling can fall into three scales depending on weather forecasting…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Amato
Mediasite video presentation given by Sam Amato, (National Fire Decision Support Center) at the 2011 Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop, Flagstaff, AZ on March 10, 2011. The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) model uses different fire models to provide landscape…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Walsh
In general, all climate prediction models are projecting continued increases in seasonal temperatures. Precipitation is also predicted to increase, though the impact on Alaska seems relatively minor. Alaska will most likely experience a drier environment, particularly in the…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Duffy
Atmospheric circulation patterns influence seasonal temperature and precipitation across large regions of Alaska. This experimental fire prediction tool uses this information to produce a forecast of area burned in Interior Alaska (i.e. South of the Brooks Range and North of the…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Neill
Stress complexes in Western forests are affected by a warmer climate, that is the interaction of fire, drought, insects, etc. can alter the vigor of forest ecosystems and potentially change their structure and function. This webinar will cover the concepts and present several…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Abatzoglou, Martin
The topics discussed include the role of using climate and climate change information for fire management. Examples will be provided of sources of climate information, and how this and climate change information is being considered for use in fire management. Presentations will…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rorig
Mediasite video presentation given by Miriam Rorig, (USFS, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Lab) at the 2011 Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop, Flagstaff, AZ on March 9, 2011. New models and advances in smoke modeling, such as BlueSky, a modeling framework that links a variety…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McBride
About 2.3 million acres were burned by wildfires in Alaska in 1977, an exceptionally bad year when the reversal of normal patterns of rainfall caused an unusually dry August. Major fires are described and the ways in which they were tackled are outlined. Resource Impact Advisory…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Kaufman, Hao, Meghan Salmon, Gao
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments onboard the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Terra and Aqua spacecrafts have several visible and near-infrared (NIR) channels with resolutions of 250, 500, and 1 km for remote sensing of land…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leblon, Garcia, Oldford, MacLean, Flannigan
In Canada, fire danger is rated by the Canadian forest fire danger rating system (CFFDRS). One of its components is the fire weather index (FWI) system, which has among others the drought code (DC). DC is used here as a surrogate of dead forest fuel moisture. DC values were…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leblon, Alexander, Chen, White
The objective of this study was to assess the potential of remote sensing from satellites for monitoring forest fire danger in northern Canadian boreal forests. In Canada, daily forest fire danger is rated by the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. One of its components…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, Hardy
Teaches fire tower spotters to recognize dangerous fire weather conditions based upon observation and measurements. Includes instructions on use of various equipments. Contains a complete two-color 'Relative Humidity and Dew Point Table' in the back.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on flora and fuels can assist land managers with ecosystem and fire management planning and in their efforts to inform others about the ecological role of fire. Chapter topics include fire regime classification,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Prichard, Ottmar, Anderson
Consume is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption, emissions, and heat release from the burning of logged units, piled slash, and natural…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide contains information about how to access and use the Weather Information Management System (WIMS) web application.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document describes the Personal Computer Historical Analysis software, a module of NFMAS (National Fire Management Analysis System) which allows the user to analyze historical wildland fire occurrence for wildland fire planning.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document describes the password management and new fire reports available using KCFAST.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This KCFAST User's Guide is designed to help you access and use the Kansas City Fire Access Software (KCFAST).
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, McCormick
This document is the Users Guide for the FireFamily Plus version 3 software system. FireFamily Plus is a software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES