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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Cochrane, Ryan
Fire has been central to terrestrial life ever since early anaerobic microorganisms poisoned the atmosphere with oxygen and multicellular plant life moved onto land. The combination of fuels, oxygen, and heat gave birth to fire on Earth. Fire is not just another evolutionary…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Cary, Flannigan, Keane, Bradstock, Davies, Lenihan, Li, Logan, Parsons
The behaviour of five landscape fire models (CAFE, FIRESCAPE, LAMOS(HS), LANDSUM and SEMLAND) was compared in a standardised modelling experiment. The importance of fuel management approach, fuel management effort, ignition management effort and weather in determining variation…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Butler, Forthofer
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Yedinak, Cohen, Forthofer, Finney
Fire spread through a fuel bed produces an observable curved combustion interface. This shape has been schematically represented largely without consideration for fire spread processes. The shape and dynamics of the flame profile within the fuel bed likely reflect the mechanisms…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

McAllister, Finney, Cohen
Extreme weather often contributes to crown fires, where the fire spreads from one tree crown to the next as a series of piloted ignitions. An important aspect in predicting crown fires is understanding the ignition of fuel particles. The ignition criterion considered in this…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

McAllister, Fernandez-Pello, Urban, Ruff
There are a number of situations when fires may occur at low pressures and oxygen concentrations that are different than standard atmospheric conditions, such as in buildings at high elevation, airplanes, and spacecraft. The flammability of materials may be affected by these…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wright
Following passage of the 1998 National Parks Omnibus Management Act (also known as the Thomas Bill), the National Park Service (NPS) secured funding through the Natural Resource Challenge (NRC) to promote scientifically sound management of parks, increase the scientific…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Keane, Karau
Fire managers are now realizing that wildfires can be beneficial because they can reduce hazardous fuels and restore fire-dominated ecosystems. A software tool that assesses potential beneficial and detrimental ecological effects from wildfire would be helpful to fire management…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Frankman, Webb, Butler, Latham
Experiments were conducted wherein wood shavings and Ponderosa pine needles in quiescent air were subjected to a steady radiation heat flux from a planar ceramic burner. The internal temperature of these particles was measured using fine diameter (0.076 mm diameter) type K…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Turner, Cohen, Running, Gower
Data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor has been used since 2001 by NASA scientists to produce eight-day estimates of Gross Primary Production (GPP) and annual estimates of Net Primary Production (NPP) for each 1-km2 cell of the Earth's…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

This project compared and contrasted the utility and limitations of satellite-imagery and computer simulation modeling approaches to mapping fire effects and burn severity. The goal was to provide resource managers with tools to more effectively meet burned area rehabilitation…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sullivan, Jones, Troutwine, Krueger, Zuuring, Meneghin
MAGIS eXpress is a modeling system for spatially-explicit analysis of timber harvest scheduling and access management. GIS (Geographic Information System) layers are imported and used as the basis for formulating harvest and access models. Access issues that can be addressed…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Keane, Drury, Karau, Hessburg, Reynolds
This paper presents modeling methods for mapping fire hazard and fire risk using a research model called FIREHARM (FIRE Hazard and Risk Model) that computes common measures of fire behavior, fire danger, and fire effects to spatially portray fire hazard over space. FIREHARM can…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Scott
Quantitative scales of fire magnitude and intensity are needed to assess and publicly communicate the unbiased potential of wildland fire to cause effects-harm, damage, and ecological change. Such scales already exist for earthquakes (Richter Scale and Mercalli Scale),…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Zimmerman, Hilbruner, Werth, Sexton, Bartlette
The 1998 wildland fire season presented conditions favoring increased wildland fire numbers and rapid expansion of area affected. This situation posed complex issues to all wildland fire management agencies in terms of firefighting resource availability, allocation, and long-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Forthofer
The Rapid Data Delivery System (RDDS) (formerly called 'Fire Data Ordering') from the USGS is an interactive web based GIS tool useful for downloading the DEM files required for use in WindNinja and WindWizard. The tool allows users to zoom into the desired area and extract a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

McHugh
Documents the steps taken to input WindWizard generated gridded wind direction into ArcView 3.2x.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

McHugh
Documents the steps taken to input WindWizard generated gridded wind direction into ArcMap 8.3.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Forthofer, Shannon, Butler
WindNinja is a simple diagnostic model designed for simulating microscale, terrain-influenced winds. A recent addition to WindNinja is a diurnal slope flow model. The model uses sensible surface heat flux, distance to ridge top or valley bottom, slope steepness, and surface and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Turner, Ollinger, Kimball
A growing body of research has demonstrated the complementary nature of remote sensing and ecosystem modeling in studies of terrestrial carbon cycling. Whereas remote sensing instruments are designed to capture spatially continuous information on the reflectance properties of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Winter, Bigler-Cole
A user needs assessment surrounding National Predictive Services was conducted involving current and prospective customers. Needs assessments (Rossi, Freeman and Lipsey 1999) are a useful form of program evaluation. National Predictive Services offers products and services…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Countryman
The way that a wildland fire burns and behaves, and the difficulty of controlling it, are closely related to the manner and rate of heat transfer. The speed with which fire spreads, for example, depends greatly on how quickly sufficient heat for ignition can be transferred to…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Countryman
Wildland fire involves both chemical and physical processes. In the burning of wildland fuel burns, their stored chemical energy is converted to thermal energy or heat through a series of complex chemical reactions. But for the combustion process to be started, heat must be…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Countryman
Heat transfer is of paramount importance in wildland fire behavior and control. For a fire to start, heat must be transferred from a firebrand to the fuel. If the fire is to continue to burn and spread, heat must be transferred to the unburned fuel around the fire. And…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Countryman
Three ingredients are essential for a wildland fire to start and to burn. First, there must be burnable fuel available. Then enough heat must be applied to the fuel to raise its temperature to the ignition point. And finally, there must be enough air to supply oxygen needed to…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES