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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 1601 - 1625 of 1722
Larkin, Shulski, Alden
This project will correct data availability and quality assurance problems surrounding the Alaskan Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) and other Alaska weather station data. By placing all Alaska weather station data into a single quality controlled database, and automating…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Ferguson, Werth, Goodrick
Lightning causes most wildfires in the western United States, and is a major cause of fire elsewhere in the U.S. Because most lightning occurs with significant precipitation, however, simple predictions of Lightning Activity Level (LAL) do not accurately determine fire ignition…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donaldson, Paul
This user's guide is an introductory manual for using the 1988 version (Burgan 1988) of the National Fire-Danger Rating System on an IBM PC or compatible computer. NFDRSPC is a window-oriented, interactive computer program that processes observed and forecast weather with fuels…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Vihnanek, Sandberg
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team has completed Consume version 3.0 (http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/products/consume.html). This system is the principle science delivery product for the Joint Fire Science Program-funded project entitled: 'Modification and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
Live fuels are an important component of the wildland fuel complex but no method exists to describe and quantify their seasonality across large areas. Existing methods that use satellite data are only useful for monitoring current live vegetation conditions and do not provide a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw
This document describes the upgrades to the FireFamily Plus is a software system for version 3.0.5. Version 3.0.5.0 is a special FireFamily Plus release at the request of Fire and Aviation Management to respond to the National Wildfire Coordinating Committees' (NWCG) adoption of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
A computer simulation model, FARSITE, includes existing fire behavior models for surface, crown, spotting, point-source fire acceleration, and fuel moisture. The model’s components and assumptions are documented. Simulations were run for simple conditions that illustrate the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Miller, Landres
We report the results of a questionnaire and workshop that sought to gain a better and deeper understanding of the contemporary information needs of wildland fire and fuels managers. Results from the questionnaire indicated that the decision to suppress a wildland fire was most…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Anderson, DeHerrera, Reinhardt
User's guide for the Consume 2.1 software system. 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 and emissions from the burning of…
Year: 1999
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: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Butler
Fuels management programs are designed to reduce risks to communities and to improve and maintain ecosystem health. The International Association of Wildland Fire initiated the 1st Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference to address development, implementation, and evaluation of these…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Horel, Splitt, Pechmann, Olsen, Delgado
During the last couple of years and stemming from the year 2000 fire plan, Land Management Agencies hired 20 meteorologists nationwide to develop fire weather programs at Geographic Area Coordination Centers and to introduce and implement new programs in support of the fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson
Extremes of climate are occurring with ever greater frequency. Wildfires, floods, droughts, and cyclones are having devastating impacts on humans and ecosystems around the world. As this editorial was developed, at least 115 people are known to have died in the recent Maui…
Year: 2023
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
Groisman, Knight, Heim, Razuvaev, Sherstyukov, Speranskaya
Significant climatic changes over the high latitudes in the 20th century have been reflected in many atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial variables. Changes in surface air temperature, precipitation, growing season duration, and snow cover cause changes in numerous derived…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Goodrick, Cunningham
In this study we utilize a three-dimensional non-hydrostatic numerical model to investigate the atmospheric response to a region of intense heating that represents an idealized wildland fire. The focus of the study is to simulate both the transverse and counter-rotating vortex…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Feunekes, Methven
Description not entered.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Ruthford, Rorig, Sandberg
Moisture in organic forest floor material for boreal ecosystems plays on important role in fire behavior. Therefore, data from in situ moisture sensors were compared with sampled moisture data and weather information to assess moisture dynamics in feather mosses (Hylocomium spp…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Douglas
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Radke, Coen
Airborne infrared (IR) observations were made of the prescribed burns between 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were made by pointing an Inframetrics PM380 IR camera out the left side of the USFS/NASA Piper…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Charney, Potter, Heilman, Bian
With the creation of the Fire Consortia for the Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS) (http://www.fs.fed.us/fcamms), the USDA Forest Service has begun to develop a deeper understanding of how a fire interacts with the overlying atmosphere. One of the FCAMMS, the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
An understanding of the interaction of fuel, fire, burn severity, site, and site vegetation, is essential to predicting the primary and secondary short term and long term impacts of fire. After analyzing fire behavior and by following the changes in species composition and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Description not entered.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The six standard relative numerical ratings of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System associated with a prescribed fire previously reported on in the literature (Woodard, P.M., Bentz, J.A., Van Nest, T., 1983. Producing a prescribed crown fire in a subalpine forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES