At multidecadal time scales the presence or absence of fire is determind by the combination of summer climate, which influences fuelmoisture, and annual bio-climate, which influences vegetation biomass and fuel production. In tundra and boreal...
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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: Young, Higuera, Duffy, Hu
Year: 2012
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Between 2004 and 2009, the LANDFIRE project facilitated the creation of approximately 1,200 unique state-and-transition models (STMs) for all major ecosystems in the United States. The primary goal of the modeling effort was to create a consistent and...
Person: Kerns, Shlisky, Daniel, Blankenship, Smith, Swaty, Shlisky, Patton, Hagen
Year: 2012
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
This paper outlines how state-and-transition simulation models (STSMs) can be used to project changes in vegetation over time across a landscape. STSMs are stochastic, empirical simulation models that use an adapted Markov chain approach to predict how...
Person: Kerns, Shlisky, Daniel, Daniel, Frid
Year: 2012
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
For the fifth major assessment of climate science by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), due to be released next year, climate scientists face a serious public-image problem. The climate models they are now working with, which make...
Person: Maslin, Austin
Year: 2012
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The first ever Landscape State-and-Transition Simulation Modeling Conference was held from June 14-16, 2011, in Portland Oregon. The conference brought together over 70 users of state-and-transition simulation modeling tools-the Vegetation Dynamics...
Person: Kerns, Shlisky, Daniel
Year: 2012
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prescribed burning for fuel reduction is a major strategy for reducing the risk from unplanned fire. Although there are theoretical studies suggesting that prescribed fire has a strong negative influence on the subsequent area of unplanned fire (so-...
Person: Price
Year: 2012
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
This symposium brings together a broad community of wildland fire managers, practitioners, researchers, academics, policy makers, and students from around the world to provide the opportunity to share research and ideas on the economics, planning, and...
Person: González-Cabán, Rodríguez-Trejo, Nolasco Morales, Rodríguez y Silva, Frausto Leyva, Gallegos Mora
Year: 2012
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Plume injection height influences plume transport characteristics, such as range and potential for dilution. We evaluated plume injection height from a predictive wildland fire smoke transport model over the contiguous United States (U.S.) from 2006 to...
Person: Raffuse, Craig, Larkin, Strand, Sullivan, Wheeler, Solomon
Year: 2012
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evaluating the risks of wildfire relative to the valuable resources found in any managed landscape requires an interdisciplinary approach. Researchers at the Rocky Mountain Research Station and Western Wildland Threat Assessment Center developed such a...
Person: Malcolm
Year: 2012
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The most unpredictable and uncontrollable wildfires are those that burn in the crowns of live vegetation. The fuels that feed these crown fires are mostly live, green foliage. Unfortunately, little is known about how live fuels combust. To understand...
Person: McAllister, Grenfell, Hadlow, Jolly, Cohen
Year: 2012
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES