The primary objective of this work is to assess the local, regional, and national risks to air quality and visibility from wildland fire. This will be done by generating and analyzing statistics of daily and nightly variability of surface wind, mixing...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Sandberg, Ferguson, Acheson, Dether, Neill, Schmidt
Year: 2003
Resource Group: Project
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: This article assesses how forest biomass can be utilized with and the implementation of fuel reduction and ecosystem restoration objectives of the National Fire Plan for the Western United States. Both public and private forests are...
Person: Rummer, Prestemon, May, Miles, Vissage, McRoberts, Liknes, Shepperd, Ferguson, Elliot, Miller, Reutebuch, Barbour, Fried, Stokes, Bilek, Skog
Year: 2003
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) was completed with Joint Fire Science Program support in 2000 under a 1998-2000 project called, 'Assessing Values of Air Quality and Visibility at Risk from Wildland Fires.' It is a twice-...
Person: Ferguson, Larkin
Year: 2003
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Research to quantify fuel consumption and flammability in shrub-dominated ecosystems has received little attention despite the widespread occurrence of fire-influenced, shrub-dominated landscapes across the arid lands of the western United States....
Person: Wright, Ottmar, Ferguson, Vihnanek
Year: 2003
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episodes for local residents and...
Person: Ottmar, Ferguson, Vihnanek, Babbitt
Year: 2003
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that can potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episode for local residents and...
Person: Ottmar, Ferguson, Vihnanek, Babbitt
Year: 2003
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
To assess values of air quality and visibility at risk from wildland fire in the United States, we generated a 40-year database that includes twice daily values of wind, mixing height, and a ventilation index that is the product of windspeed and mixing...
Person: Ferguson, McKay, Nagel, Piepho, Rorig, Anderson, Kellogg
Year: 2003
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
In order to keep our focus and avoid unnecessary mission creep that could ultimately prevent us from achieving our objectives, we plan to invite specific personnel and agencies to this work shop. Our plan is to place three focal points at the workshop...
Person: Brenner, Masters, Ferguson
Year: 2003
Resource Group: Project
Source: FRAMES
A comprehensive evaluation of the vertical structure of a smoldering smoke plume was afforded by a unique combination of tethersonde measurements (from ground level to about 400 m above ground level (AGL) or 274-674 m above sea level (AGL)), lidar...
Person: Ferguson, Collins, Ruthford, Fukuda
Year: 2003
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) were developed to assess and predict wildfire danger in the forests of the United States and Canada. In addition, the fire weather index...
Person: Galley, Klinger, Sugihara, Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
Year: 2003
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS