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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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[Preface to this full issue of Fire Management Today] Mass media images of raging crown fires have affected how many people view their wildlands. Flames surge and leap dozens and even hundreds of feet into the air; planes zoom above the flames releasing streams of brightly…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander
This paper highlights the results obtained from a comprehensive survey recently published by the authors on the error statistics associated with studies that have used independent data derived from field observations of wildfires, prescribed fires and experimental fires to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dr. Matt Nolan is a Research Associate Professor at UAF's Institute of Northern Engineering with degrees in geophysics and arctic and mechanical engineering. He has been pioneering new high-tech uses of an old tool-the aerial photo. With new advances in computer processing and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Hearing about climate-driven plant community changes takes on new meaning when they name names of the passengers who might not be boarding the flight to the future. A recent paper by Hollingsworth et al. (2013) does just that, analyzing fire severity and post-fire physical…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Lasko, Kaufmann
Significant changes occurring in the wildland fire environment of the United States are generatinguncharacteristic shifts in the complexity, behavior, extent, and effects of wildfires. Increases in wildfire numbers, temporal and spatial scales, and ecological, social, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morvan
The subject of this article concerns the unsteady effects (fire intensity, wind) upon the propagation and, more generally, the behavior of surface fires in open fields. The study focused on two sources of unsteadiness: the first one resulting from the regime of propagation (wind…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
This discussion included a project update including a basic overview, preliminary results on the efffects of fuel treatments on permafrost and fuel composition, the modeling framework, and products. They hope to simulate wildfire in response to changing fire management options.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alden
The benefits and drawbacks of overwintering weather stations continues to be a topic of interest in the fire management community. This presentation looks at specific weather stations and how overwintering effects the Drought Code.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Ziel
What factors may influence new fires burning into or being slowed by previous fire scars? How long can we consider fire scars a fuel barrier? More and more area in Alaska seems to be burning in close succession, or "repeat burns."
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne, Ziel
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
The Funny River Fire (AK-KKS-403140) was ignited by humans on May 19, 2014, and burned almost 200,000 acres on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, by early June. Most of the fire was within the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, but it threatened adjacent communities. Four recreational…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
A brief refresher of CFFDRS from the 3-day Summit, held October 28-30 in Fairbanks.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rodriguez
One of the factors that shapes the Alaskan Boreal forest is the frequency in which previously burned areas re-burn, also known as the fire return interval. The Alaskan fire regime itself is subject to various climate influences one of which is temperature. Using geographic…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Douglas
The use of chemical fire retardants in forest ecosystems creates a number of potential problems in land management. The properties, application, and known side-effects of chemical retardants are therefore reviewed from the point of view of ecological impact. Guidelines for the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This Report describes the construction of an index of the relative rate of spread of crowning forest fires during spring and early summer. It depends on the proposition that conifer crowns are more flammable during this period because the moisture content of their foliage is…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks
The performance of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) is analyzed with respect to wildfire behavior in Ontario for a 7-year period (1965-1971). Lightning fires and man-caused fires are analyzed separately and regional differences in fire weather and fire behavior are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Main
From the text:'The computer program FIREDAT was run and the cumulate percentage of ignition components used to determine the class boundaries. The only percents green used were10-30-50, corresponding to cured, transition and green in the old system. Since we have an extreme day…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ramberg
From the Introduction:'The objective of EDST 1710, Firing and Line Holding Devices, is to improve safety and efficiency in prescribed burning and wildfire control through the development of equipment for firing and line holding. There has been a need in the past to burn out and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maloney, Todd
From the Introduction: 'Forest fire control agencies in Canada keep records of fire occurrences. Generally, these records summarize the characteristics of individual forest fires and are often stored on a computer-oriented device, usually magnetic tape. From these records, a…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) was issued in 1970 after several years' work by a number of fire researchers in the Canadian Forestry Service. The best features of the former fire danger index were incorporated in the FWI, and a link was preserved between old and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moen
Air flow in the natural environment affects the distribution of organisms, mechnical stresses, heat losses by convection, and moisture distribution. Air flow was visualized by bubble tracers in a wind tunnel, and the flow patterns over solid barriers 5 and 15 cm high and 0%, 25…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This report is a bibliography of publications on all aspects of forest fire produced during the period 1961 to 1974 at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station. There are 52 items, listed chronologically in four categories. A short descriptive note accompanies each item.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roussopoulos
A fuel hazard rating system was devised for eastern logging slash similar to that of the National Fire Danger Rating System. It involves a series of CALCOMP plots that graphically display normalized predictions of rate of spread and fireline intensity as related to slash species…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz
The efficiency of aerial fire detection patrolling could be significantly improved if a reliable thunderstorm tracking and lighting fire prediction scheme were available. One method to determine the areas over which thunderstorms have passed requires the use of expensive…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS