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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Andrews, Chase
The BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system is a set of interactive computer programs. BEHAVE provides mathematical prediction models in one easy-to-use package. This paper describes prediction capabilities that have been added to the system. Since 1984, BEHAVE…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
Describes BURN Subsystem, Part 1, the operational fire behavior prediction subsystem of the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. The manual covers operation of the computer program, assumptions of the mathematical models used in the calculations, and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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
Rothermel
Aerial ignition devices are being used which can start fires by a succession of point sources or by a line of fire. Through the use of these devices, the fire manager has considerable control of the fire situation. Control of the ultimate fire behavior depends on the ignition…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rothermel
The fire behavior nomograms are excerpted from How to Predict the Spread and Intensity of Forest and Range Fuel, by Richard C. Rothermel, with the exception of the nomogram for fuel model #7 which was updated for this publication.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Kelley
This poster is an overview of application of BehavePlus to prescribed fire planning.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bevins, Seli
This poster is an overview of BehavePlus (versions 3 and 4). It includes a brief description of each module.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer
Currently, no methods of predicting microscale, terrain influenced winds are available to fire managers. This study evaluated three methods of providing surface wind information to fire growth models. One was simply a uniform wind speed and direction, a method that has been…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Bradshaw, Butler
The lack of detailed wind speed and direction information is one major source of uncertainty in fire management decisions. Methods to obtain estimates of local wind speed and direction at the 100 to 200m scale have not been readily available. In most cases, fire incident…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire behavior model accuracy has suffered from a lack of specific information about how winds shift in direction and speed in mountainous terrain at fine scales. Before this project, fire managers lacked a tool that could provide realtime status of changing wind conditions at…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andersen, Reutebuch, McGaughey
The development of remote sensing technologies increases the potential to support more precise, efficient, and ecologically-sensitive approaches to forest resource management. One of the primary requirements of precision forest management is accurate and detailed 3D spatial data…
Year: 2006
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
Cruz, Alexander
To control and use wildland fires safely and effectively depends on creditable assessments of fire potential, including the propensity for crowning in conifer forests. Simulation studies that use certain fire modelling systems (i.e. NEXUS, FlamMap, FARSITE, FFE-FVS (Fire and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Troendle, MacDonald, Luce, Larsen
There have been numerous studies worldwide demonstrating that changes in forest density can cause a change in water yield. Bosch and Hewlett (1982), Hibbert (1967), Stednick (1996) and Troendle and Leaf (1980) have summarized the findings from most of these studies. In general,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
Use of structural composite lumber products is increasing. In applications requiring a fire resistance rating, calculation procedures are used to obtain the fire resistance rating of exposed structural wood products. A critical factor in the calculation procedures is char rate…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
Engineered wood products, such as oriented strandboard, laminated veneer lumber, and other composite wood products, are being used more often in construction. This includes use as rim boards, which are the components around the perimeter of a floor assembly. This situation has…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ohmann, Gregory, Pierce, Wimberly, Fried
Poster presented at the Joint Fire Science Program Principal Investigator Workshop, November 2005.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fried, Ohmann, Wimberly, Pierce, Gregory
Description not entered.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tachajapong, Zhou, Mahalingam, Weise
Crown fire initiation is studied by using laboratory experiments, a semi-empirical model, and a detailed physical based on large eddy simulation (LES) to gain a better understanding of transition from ground to crown fire. In the experiments, we investigated the effects of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Ritts, Cohen, Gower, Running, Zhao, Costa, Kirschbaum, Ham, Saleska, Ahl
Estimates of daily gross primary production (GPP) and annual net primary production (NPP) at the 1 km spatial resolution are now produced operationally for the global terrestrial surface using imagery from the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensor.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Black, Elliot, Miller, Neary, Pilliod, Robichaud, Sutherland
The Environmental Consequences Team is developing an information delivery system about potential environmental consequences of fuel treatment activities. Broadly, these activities include thinning and burning, and associated work. The environmental consequences of these…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zuuring
Description not entered.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy
What materials will emerge from todays research ideas to become the commonly accepted building products of 2020? What will durable materials look like in 2020? This paper attempts to address these questions by considering some current trends and then presenting a series of ideas…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy, Hunt, Turk, Anderson
Following natural disasters (such as hurricanes, tornados, or tsunamis), when civilians become displaced, or when military troops are deployed overseas, temporary housing is often a critical need. The USDA Forest Products Laboratory recently developed a lightweight,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sun, Jenkins
Since the 1950s, extensive research has been conducted to investigate the relationship between near-surface atmospheric conditions and large wildfire growth and occurrence. Observational studies have demonstrated that near-surface dryness (e-g., Fahnestock 1965) and atmospheric…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS