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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Burton, Parisien, Hicke, Hall, Freeburn
The present study undertook a hierarchical analysis of the variability within and among some individual fire events in the boreal ecozones of Canada and Alaska. When stratified by ecozone, differences in the spatial and temporal distribution of wildfires were observed in the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woodall, Westfall, Lutes, Oswalt
Coarse woody debris (CWD) may be defined as dead and down trees of a certain minimum size that are an important forest ecosystem component (e.g., wildlife habitat, carbon stocks, and fuels). Due to field efficiency concerns, some natural resource inventories only measure the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan, Holden, Patterson, McMeeking, Kreidenweis, Malm, Hao, Wold, Collett
Biomass burning is an important source of particulate organic carbon (OC) in the atmosphere. Quantifying this contribution in time and space requires a means of routinely apportioning contributions of smoke from biomass burning to OC. Smoke marker (for example, levoglucosan)…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stockli, Rutishauser, Dragoni, O'Keefe, Thornton, Jolly, Lu, Denning
Predicting the global carbon and water cycle requires a realistic representation of vegetation phenology in climate models. However most prognostic phenology models are not yet suited for global applications, and diagnostic satellite data can be uncertain and lack predictive…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seli, Ager, Crookston, Finney, Bahro, Agee, McHugh
A simulation system was developed to explore how fuel treatments placed in random and optimal spatial patterns affect the growth and behavior of large fires when implemented at different rates over the course of five decades. The system consists of several command line programs…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Parisien, Ager, Finney
Spatially explicit information on the probability of burning is necessary for virtually all strategic fire and fuels management planning activities, including conducting wildland fire risk assessments, optimizing fuel treatments, and prevention planning. Predictive models…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lewis, Arnott, Moosmüller, Wold
A dual-wavelength photoacoustic instrument operating at 405 and 870 nm was used during the 2006 Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment to measure light scattering and absorption by smoke from the combustion of a variety of biomass fuels. Simultaneous measurements of aerosol light…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kennedy, Ford, Singleton, Finney, Agee
Effective decision making in environmental management requires the consideration of multiple objectives that may conflict. Common optimization methods use weights on the multiple objectives to aggregate them into a single value, neglecting valuable insight into the relationships…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
The fire destruction of hundreds of homes associated with wildfires has occurred in the United States for more than a century. From 1870 to 1920, massive wildfires occurred principally in the Lake States but also elsewhere. Wildfires such as Peshtigo (Wisconsin, 1871), Michigan…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer
The Rapid Data Delivery System (RDDS) (formerly called 'Fire Data Ordering') from the USGS is an interactive web based GIS tool useful for downloading the DEM files required for use in WindNinja and WindWizard. The tool allows users to zoom into the desired area and extract a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McHugh
Documents the steps taken to input WindWizard generated gridded wind direction into ArcView 3.2x.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McHugh
Documents the steps taken to input WindWizard generated gridded wind direction into ArcMap 8.3.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In 1972, aeronautical engineer Richard C. Rothermel, of the USDA Fire Sciences Lab at Missoula, Montana, developed a method for modeling the spread of wildfire. The model became widely used, and although the ensuing years have brought many technological innovations, it is still…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andersen, McGaughey, Reutebuch
High resolution, active remote sensing technologies, such as interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR) and airborne laser scanning (lidar) have the capability to provide forest managers with direct measurements of 3-dimensional forest canopy surface structure. While lidar…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Though fuel specialists, scientists and managers have developed treatment tools to reduce fuel hazards, such as mechanical thinning by removing trees, costs to treat lands at risk can be prohibitively high. Harvesting timber and woody materials that can then be sold reduces…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
With a history of management choices that have suppressed fire in the West, ecosystems in which fire would play a vital role have developed tremendous fuel loads. As a result, conditions are prime for fires to grow large, escape attack measures, and become catastrophic…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lightning is a natural source of wildfire ignitions and causes a substantial portion of large wildfires across the globe. Simple predictions of lightning activity don't accurately determine fire ignition potential because fuel conditions must be considered in addition to the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton, Jones, Hann
The Fire Behavior Assessment Tool (FBAT) provides an interface between ArcMap and FlamMap3 (Finney and others 2006), a fire behavior mapping and analysis program that computes potential fire behavior characteristics (flame length, rate of spread, fire type or crown fire activity…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hutter, Jones, Hann, Levesque
The Area Change Tool (ACT) was developed in response to the need for a tool that could be used to help design and delineate fuel and vegetation prescriptions as well as edit raster layers to accurately portray treatment outcomes. These edited data can be used with fire behavior…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heyerdahl, Wright, Sutherland
The programs FHX2 and FHAES require that injury data be input in a very specific format. This paper walks through how to enter the data correctly.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann
The objectives of this power point are to 1) Review reference values and landscape FRCC, 2) Review NFPORS data fields for FRCC, 3) Review previous stand FRCC assessment tool, 4) Walk through examples of revised stand FRCC determination.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann
Powerpoint presentation discussing integrating fire regime and condition class.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton, Hann
User's guide for the Fire Regime Condition Class Software Application tool.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hutter, Jones, Zeiler
The FRCC Mapping Tool quantifies the departure of vegetation conditions from a set of reference conditions representing the historical range of variation. The tool, which operates from an ArcGIS platform, derives several metrics of departure by comparing the composition of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Shlisky, Havlina, Schon, Barrett, DeMeo, Pohl, Menakis, Hamilton, Jones, Levesque, Frame
The FRCC Guidebook provides step-by-step instructions for conducting assessments with the FRCC Standard Landscape Worksheet Method and an overview of the FRCCMapping Tool GIS software used for the Standard Landscape Mapping Method. The Standard Landscape Worksheet Method…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES