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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rowe
Reviews the literature on some aspects of the fire ecology of the Spruces, chiefly Picea glauca, in the boreal forest area of the north-west, where fire is an integral part of the environment and Spruces are frequently early invaders of burnt sites.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
The fire characteristics chart has been expanded and modified to indicate crown fire behavior. Any point on the chart provides a simultaneous representation of rate of spread, unit energy, fireline intensity, flame length, and power of the fire. The contrast in behavior between…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
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 components of these systems are…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
In Alaska, the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) system is used to track the effect of weather of fuel moisture conditions. The prescription of the FrostFire experimental burn (near Fairbanks) was based on the basic weather conditions as well as the FWI codes, which…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
Description not entered.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rollins, Keane, Zhu, Menakis, Hann, Shlisky
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roby
Description not entered.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Brown
Major concerns after wildfires are the increased erosion and flooding potential due to loss of the protective forest floor layer, loss of water storage, and the creation of water repellent soil conditions. Treatments to mitigate postfire erosion and runoff are commonly applied…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Reindeer vegetation-type selection, activity, and food habits were studied from 1976 to 1978. Results from aerial surveys and on-ground observations showed a preference for Tussock-Shrub Tundra in spring, Low-Medium Willows in early summer, and Saltgrass Meadows in mid-summer…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
[from the text] The general effect of fire on shrubs should always be considered in relation to the ecological potential of a community. In grasslands, shrubs have a difficult time maintaining a dominant position due to competition from healthy grasses, droughts, and occasional…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Alvarado
Description not entered.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ottmar, Bluhm, Vihnanek
Description not entered.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Alvarado, Ottmar
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
Description not entered.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Pierovich, Fox, Ross
The objective of this report is to summarize the current state-of-knowledge of the effects of forest burning on the air resource, and to define research questions of high priority for the management of smoke from prescribed and wild fires. Our purpose was to provide background…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Roberts, Peterson, Dennison, Rechel, van Wagtendonk
Wildfire represents one of the most beneficial, yet destructive, forms of disturbance in the western United States. Wildfire danger is a product of weather, fuels and terrain, varying seasonally depending on changes in the amount and condition of fuels (live and dead components…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roberts, Dennison
Wildfire is one of the most significant forms of natural disturbance, impacting a wide range of ecosystems ranging from boreal forests to Mediterranean shrublands and tropical rainforest. One of the greatest uncertainties in assessing fire danger is our knowledge of fuels. Fuel…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads, Fujioka, Brown
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) has been making experimental, near real-time seasonal global forecasts since Sept. 26, 1997 with the NCEP global spectral model used for the reanalysis. Images of these forecasts, at daily to seasonal time scales, are…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads, Chen, Fujioka, Burgan
In fiscal year 1998, the USDA Forest Service reported that approximately 770,000 hectares (1.9 million acres) of state and private lands burned in the preceding year. Total presuppression and suppression costs were a hefty $585 million. As large as that sum was, it was still…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads, Chen, Fujioka, Burgan
An experimental fire severity forecast effort is described herein. Daily to monthly regional forecasts of nea rsurface fire-weather variables from the Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center experimental forecast system are being utilized for an experimental US Forest…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rivard, Rothwell, Woodard
Description not entered.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riggan, Hoffman
Airborne trials have produced the first applications of a new thermal-imaging radiometer, the FireMapper, which is a unique three-channel, calibrated imaging system designed through a Research Joint Venture between the USDA Forest Service and Space Instruments, Inc. FireMapper…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riebau, Fox
Fires can be catastrophic, but only when the weather permits. Predicting the weather more than a few hours into the future with accuracy, precision and reliability is an on-going challenge to researchers. Accurate and precise forecasting for more than a few hours into the future…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Richardson
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES