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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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A mobile application for prescribed fire smoke management with features including guidelines, a fuel calculator, fact sheets, Smokepedia glossary, and other helpful resources. Developed by North Carolina State University for the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils and the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Jimenez
This self-paced math course refreshers firefighters' knowledge of basic math concepts and tools necessary for making math calculations in the field. Topics include calculating tank volumes and flow rates, determining pump pressure and friction loss, understanding maps and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

French, McKenzie
The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) is a web-based tool that provides users a simple user interface for computing wildland fire emissions across North America at landscape to regional scales (1-km spatial resolution). WFEIS provides access to fire perimeter…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

The HYSPLIT (HYbrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory) model is the newest version of a complete system for computing simple air parcel trajectories to complex dispersion and deposition simulations. As a result of a joint effort between NOAA and Australia's Bureau…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

McClure, Huddleston
VIEWS is a website and database system designed to provide easy access to a wide variety of air quality data through an interactive suite of query, visualization, and analysis tools. Ground-based measurements from dozens of monitoring networks, air quality modeling results,…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

The US National Atlas Data site provides a source for geospatial data including political boundaries, roads, waterways, and population centers. Nearly all data available in the National Atlas Map Maker can be downloaded at no cost.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

The Hazard Mapping System (HMS) is an interactive processing system that allows the trained satellite analysts in the Satellite Analysis Branch (SAB), within the Satellite Services Division (SSD), to manually integrate data from automated fire detection algorithms using GOES and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

MesoWest is an ongoing cooperative project between researchers at the University of Utah, forecasters at the Salt Lake City National Weather Service Office, the NWS Western Region Headquarters, and personnel of participating agencies, universities, and commercial firms. The goal…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

The AQS Data Mart is a database containing all of the information from the AQS system. The AQS Data Mart was built as a storehouse of air quality information that allows users to make queries of unlimited quantities of data. The main AQS system must maintain constant readiness…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

The Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) is a weather modeling system for mesoscale numerical predictions for atmospheric research and operational forecasting.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

A computer-imaging software program that simulates visual air quality differences of various scenes.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

CAMx is an Eulerian photochemical dispersion model that allows for integrated "one-atmosphere" assessments of gaseous and particulate air pollution (ozone, particulate matter, air toxics) over spatial scales ranging from neighborhoods to continents. It is designed to unify all…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Linn, Sieg
HIGRAD/FIRETEC is a physics-based, 3-D computer code designed to simulate the constantly changing, interactive relationship between fire and its environment. It does so by representing the coupled interaction between fire, fuels, atmosphere, and topography on a landscape scale (…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Canopy fuel stratum characteristics determine to a large extent the behavior of crown fires. By linking an extensive forest stand database with foliage dry weight allometric equations, we developed regression equations to estimate the following canopy fuel stratum…
Year: 2010
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Bramel, Dousset, Finlayson, Hamilton
The First Order Fire Effects Model Mapping Tool (FOFEMMT) provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software and the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) (Reinhardt 2003). FOFEM is a non-spatial fire effects analysis program that computes potential first order fire effects…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Smail
LANDFIRE total fuel change tool (ToFu Delta) works through a Microsoft Access database to produce spatial results in Arc Map based on rule sets devised by the user which principally take into account the existing vegetation type (EVT), existing vegetation cover (EVC), existing…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Bramel, Dousset, Finlayson, Hamilton
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Rupp
An understanding of the processes that control wildland fuel accumulation, including the roles played by climate change and fire management activities, is crucial for designing wildland management policies. Boreal ALFRESCO simulates the responses of subarctic and boreal…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

FERA and the LANDFIRE team collaborated together to develop and map a set of FCCS fuelbeds to represent complete coverage of current vegetation types designated in LANDFIRE. Coverage of this GIS layer is at a 30-m resolution across the continental United States. The fuelbed map…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Forthofer, Butler
WindWizard is no longer supported by the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab as the underlying software is not readily available. Much of the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling within the WindWizard framework was added to the WindNinja software. WindWizard is a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Toney, Bramel, Anderson
LANDFIRE Data Access Tool for ArcGIS downloads LANDFIRE data directly from ArcMap.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Hamilton, Jones, Hann
Fire Behavior Assessment Tool produces fire behavior characteristics that could occur under specified conditions.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Hutter, Jones, Hann, Levesque
Area Change Tool edits ArcGrids to characterize changes based on potential treatment.
Type: Tool
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…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

ANNOTATION: FRCS is a spreadsheet application useful for estimating the cost of forest operations undertaken to reduce forest fuel loads by cutting and removing trees for solid wood products or chips. It can also be used to estimate the cost of collecting and chipping forest…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES