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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wildfires in Interior Alaska have become more severe over the past decade and have released more carbon into the atmosphere than was stored by Interior forests during the same period, says a study released today by the University of Guelph in Ontario and co-authored by a U.S.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Climate change is causing wildfires to burn more fiercely, pumping more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than previously thought, according to a new study to be published in Nature Geoscience this week. This is the first study to reveal that fires in the Alaskan interior-an…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Harra
A series of warmer summers and drier springs in Interior Alaska has forced wildfires to burn deeper into the region's ancient peat, releasing far more carbon dioxide into the air than previously thought, according to a new study by a team of scientists. The longer-burning fires…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak
Workshop attendees were encouraged to share what fuels related projects were going on in their area or zone, the goals of the projects, and any interesting or helpful lessons learned.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rigby
BLM - Alaska Service plans to use SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) images to update all 2009 and 2010 fire perimeters. The quick processing time and small file size will allow for all fire perimeters to be updated after the fire season.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rettig
A new wood energy project in Tok has turned surrounding forests from a fire hazard into renewable fuel. The Tok School lit a new wood chip-fired boiler for the first time several weeks ago. The 5.5-million-BTU steam boiler produces the school's heat, saving the school district…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adair
Persuasive models of the ejection of material at high velocities from the Chicxulub asteroid impact marking the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary have led to the conclusion that upon return, that material, heated in passage through the upper atmosphere, generated a high level of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire management applications. BehavePlus is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis, Miller, Parks
Land management agencies need to understand and monitor the consequences of their fire suppression decisions. We developed a framework for retrospective fire behavior modeling and impact assessment to determine where ignitions would have spread had they not been suppressed and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Ashmun, Sims
This synthesis of post-fire treatment effectiveness reviews the past decade of research, monitoring, and product development related to post-fire hillslope emergency stabilization treatments, including erosion barriers, mulching, chemical soil treatments, and combinations of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parson, Robichaud, Lewis, Napper, Clark
Following wildfires in the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of the Interior mobilize Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams to assess immediate post-fire watershed conditions. BAER teams must determine threats from flooding, soil erosion…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heinsch, Andrews
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a computer program that is based on mathematical models that describe wildland fire behavior and effects and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams. It can be used for a host of fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyke, Brooks, D'Antonio
Wildfires change plant communities by reducing dominance of some species while enhancing the abundance of others. Detailed habitat-specific models have been developed to predict plant responses to fire, but these models generally ignore the breadth of fire regime characteristics…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hély, Girardin, Ali, Carcaillet, Brewer, Bergeron
We present here a 7000-year wildfire reconstruction based on sedimentary charcoal series from five lakes located south of Hudson Bay in eastern boreal North America. The reconstruction shows a significant downward trend in the frequency of large fires from 0.0061 fire·yr^-1 ca.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Chapin, Hollingsworth, Mack, Romanovsky, Turetsky
In the boreal forests of interior Alaska, feedbacks that link forest soils, fire characteristics, and plant traits have supported stable cycles of forest succession for the past 6000 years. This high resilience of forest stands to fire disturbance is supported by two…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vasconcelos, Guertin
FIREMAP is a simulation system designed to estimate wildfire characteristics in spatially non-uniform environments and simulate the growth of fire in discrete time steps. This simulation system integrates Rothermel's behavior prediction model (Rothermel 1972) with a raster-…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heilman, Fast
A two-dimensional, nonhydrostatic, coupled, earth/atmospheric model has been used to simulate mean and turbulent atmospheric characteristics near lines of extreme surface heating. Prognostic equations are used to solve for the horizontal and vertical wind components, potential…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ball, Guertin
Recent developments in the use of GIS for spatial dynamic modeling has resulted in improved fire growth simulations. This paper examines previous growth models and some of their weaknesses. We then define what would be required to handle the growth of surface fire within a…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Martin
The concept of a passive flame height sensor involves thin strings permeated with fire retardant or solder which record heights of flame contact. Both types of sensors were calibrated during 12 experimental test fires with respect to flame heights measured on video tape. Three…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heilman
A two-dimensional nonhydrostatic atmospheric model was used to simulate the circulation patterns (wind and vorticity) and turbulence energy fields associated with lines of extreme surface heating on simple two-dimensional hills. Heating-line locations and ambient crossflow…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kanjanakunchorn, Woodard, McCornick, McDonald
Water is frequently used to contain wild or prescribed fires in a wildland situation. In this paper, we show why the commonly-available, relatively inexpensive garden-type soaker hose can be effectively used to contain fires. We present results on such performance…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viney
A practical means of quanming the diffusivities of forest fuels from field data is presented. The mathematics of this method is explored for four fuel shapes: a litter layer, a hardwood leaf, a twig and a square fuel moisture analogue stick, which are represented geometrically…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gagnon, Passmore, Platt, Myers, Paine, Harms
Pyrogenic plants dominate many fire-prone ecosystems. Their prevalence suggests some advantage to their enhanced flammability, but researchers have had difficulty tying pyrogenicity to individual-level advantages. Based on our review, we propose that enhanced flammability in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Turetsky, Mack, Hollingsworth, Harden
Shifts in moss communities may affect the resilience of boreal ecosystems to a changing climate because of the role of moss species in regulating soil climate and biogeochemical cycling. Here, we use long-term data analysis and literature synthesis to examine the role of moss in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Power, Marlon, Bartlein, Harrison
Version 1 of the Global Charcoal Database is now available for regional fire history reconstructions, data exploration, hypothesis testing, and evaluation of coupled climate-vegetation-fire model simulations. The charcoal database contains over 400 radiocarbon-dated records that…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES