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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Krawchuk, Moritz
Aim: Substantial overlap in the climate characteristics of the United States and China results in similar land-cover types and weather conditions, especially in the eastern half of the two countries. These parallels suggest similarities in fire regimes as well, yet relatively…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ravi, D'Odorico
A common form of land degradation in desert grasslands is associated with the relatively rapid encroachment of woody plants, a process that has important implications on ecosystem structure and function, as well as on the soil hydrological and biogeochemical properties. Until…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miranda, Sturtevant, Yang, Gustafson
We demonstrate a method to evaluate the degree to which a meta-model approximates spatial disturbance processes represented by a more detailed model across a range of landscape conditions, using neutral landscapes and equivalence testing. We illustrate this approach by comparing…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt
After extensive wildfires on the Seward Peninsula during summer 1977, BLM and NPS in 1978 jointly funded initiation of fire effects transects at Imuruk Lake in the central Seward Peninsula (Fig. 1). The Imuruk Lake site was chosen as a transect location because soils and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Rebain, Reinhardt, Dixon
This project provided for an improved version of the Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FFE-FVS), a program whose original development was largely financed by the JFSP. The program is widely used by JFSP member agencies and several JFSP-sponsored…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schichtel, Fox, Patterson, Holden
Air quality regulations have the goal of reducing haze in national parks and wilderness areas to natural conditions and require that fine particulate matter (PM2.5) be reduced below a threshold that adversely impacts health. The federally funded and managed Interagency…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephens, Adams, Handmer, Kearns, Leicester, Leonard, Moritz
Most urban-wildland interface (UWI) fires in California and the other regions of the US are managed in a similar fashion: fire agencies anticipate the spread of fire, mandatory evacuations are ordered, and professional fire services move in and attempt to suppress the fires.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wahrenbrock
[from the text] Over 1.4 million acres of bark beetle insect activity was recorded (Burnside 2001) on the Kenai Peninsuladuring the 1990's. This "high intensity" beetle infestation dramatically altered the composition and structure of spruce forests in affected areas. Ever since…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Malm, Fox, Moosmüller, Kreidenweis, Collett, Hao
Carbonaceous aerosols, which include contributions from industrial and mobile source emissions and biomass combustion, exert a significant impact on regional air quality. Some preliminary semi-quantitative analyses suggest that smoke from fire-related activity may contribute…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rolph, Draxler, Stein, Taylor, Ruminski, Kondragunta, Zeng, Huang, Manikin, McQueen, Davidson
An overview of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) current operational Smoke Forecasting System (SFS) is presented. This system is intended as guidance to air quality forecasters and the public for fine particulate matter (≤2.5 μm) emitted from large…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lauk, Erb
Human-induced vegetation fires destroy a large amount of biomass each year and thus constitute an important fraction of the human interference with the energy flows of terrestrial ecosystems. This paper presents a quantification of the biomass burned in large-scale as well as…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bradshaw, McCormick
Welcome to the FireFamily Plus (FFP) Version 4 User’s Guide, the first update to the FireFamily Plus Version 2 User’s Guide (Bradshaw and McCormick, 2000). FFP is software for summarizing and analyzing daily weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kennedy, Fontaine
Dry forests throughout the United States are fire-dependent ecosystems, and much attention has been given to restoring their ecological function. As such, land managers often are tasked with reintroducing fire via prescribed fire, wildland fire use, and fire-surrogate treatments…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mildrexler, Zhao, Running
Large-scale ecosystem disturbances (LSEDs) have major impacts on the global carbon cycle as large pulses of CO2 and other trace gases from terrestrial biomass loss are emitted to the atmosphere during disturbance events. The high temporal and spatial variability of the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stewart, Wilmer, Hammer, Aplet, Hawbaker, Miller, Radeloff
Maps of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are both policy tools and powerful visual images. Although the growing number of WUI maps serve similar purposes, this article indicates that WUI maps derived from the same data sets can differ in important ways related to their…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abt, Prestemon, Gebert
The US Forest Service and other land-management agencies seek better tools for anticipating future expenditures for wildfire suppression. We developed regression models for forecasting US Forest Service suppression spending at 1-, 2-, and 3-year lead times. We compared these…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Maranghides, McDermott, Manzello
Fires spreading in elevated vegetation, such as chaparral or pine forest canopies, are often more intense than fires spreading through surface vegetation such as grasslands. As a result, they are more difficult to suppress, produce higher heat fluxes, more firebrands and smoke,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balbi, Morandini, Silvani, Filippi, Rinieri
This work presents an enhanced version of a simple model of surface fire spread, already reported in [J.H. Balbi, J.L. Rossi, T. Marcelli, P.A. Santoni, Combust. Sci. Technol. 178 (2007) 2511-2537]. The simplicity of the original model was preserved and the “faster than real…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Agee, Aplet, Dykstra, Graham, Lehmkuhl, Pilliod, Potts, Powers, Stuart
Timber harvest following wildfire leads to different outcomes depending on the biophysical setting of the forest, pattern of burn severity, operational aspects of tree removal, and other management activities. Fire effects range from relatively minor, in which fire burns through…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Crookston, Rebain
This document outlines changes and additions that have been made to the Fire and Fuels Extension since the publication of the official FFE documentation (RMRS-GTR-116).
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masters
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Tanaka
The primary goal of this symposium is to facilitate communication and information sharing across desert, regional, and state boundaries. The workshop that follows the symposium will devise strategies and identify gaps in knowledge to reduce the loss of desert ecosystems to…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Masters, Gray, Oswald, Rideout-Hanzak
This conference will provide a forum on global wildland fire research and management. Speakers will focus on the regional dichotomy between indigenous cultural use and understanding of fire and the modern cultural attitude toward fire. Concurrent sessions will cover a wide range…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Chen
As new information has recently accumulated, the purpose of this symposium is to bring researchers in this field together to discuss recent findings and their applications. Major topics include: 1) biomass burning emission characterization; 2) linking emissions to ambient…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler
Previous funding from the JFSP has been used to test the utility of commercial engineering software for simulating surface wind flows in support of fire management decisions. Efforts over the last three years have demonstrated that this technology can be very useful as a…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES