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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Tachajapong, Lozano, Mahalingam, Weise
The transition of surface fire to live shrub crown fuels was studied through a simplified laboratory experiment using an open-topped wind tunnel. Respective surface and crown fuels used were excelsior (shredded Populus tremuloides wood) and live chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Includes 52 papers and 14 poster synopses that present current knowledge about ecosystems where whitebark pine and associated flora and fauna predominate. This was the first symposium to explore the ecology and management of these ecosystems, which are becoming increasingly…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Godwin
Improvements in smartphone and tablet device hardware and software have made it relatively easy for wildland fire and natural resource professionals to use digital maps in the field. Digital map uses include a variety of resource management tasks: custom prescribed fire maps,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ravi, D'Odorico
A common form of land degradation in desert grasslands is associated with the relatively rapid encroachment of woody plants, a process that has important implications on ecosystem structure and function, as well as on the soil hydrological and biogeochemical properties. Until…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miranda, Sturtevant, Yang, Gustafson
We demonstrate a method to evaluate the degree to which a meta-model approximates spatial disturbance processes represented by a more detailed model across a range of landscape conditions, using neutral landscapes and equivalence testing. We illustrate this approach by comparing…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews
We begin our study of wildland fire with the basic principles and mechanisms of the combustion process-fire fundamentals. In the next chapter we look at wildland fire as an event. Fire behavior is what a fire does, the dynamics of the fire event. In later chapters we move up the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bevins
This poster describes major features of BehavePlus version 5.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Johnston
We stood with the gray-haired ranger on a high ridge in Oregon overlooking a thousand square miles of forest. [from the text] The night before, my GEOGRAPHIC colleague Jay Johnston and I had watched a particularly violent thunderstorm of the type that plagued the Northwest in…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
Predictions of wildland fire behavior are used in various aspects of fire management: prescribed fire planning, presuppression planning, real-time fire suppression activities. Methods for calculating fire behavior covered here represent continued improvement of the packaging of…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer
How close is too close when fighting a forest fire? Wind, temperature and "real" heat energy are all factors that should be considered when determining the safety zone.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
The motion of a strong line thermal in an unstratified atmosphere is modeled to estimate a bound for its capability to lift firebrand particles. It is found that the maximum height of a viable firebrand is roughly proportional to the square root of thermal strength. The…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
A relation between fire behavior and crown scorch height is derived from measurements on 13 experimental outdoor fires. The range of data includes fire intensities from 16 to 300 kcal/s-m, and scorch heights from 2 to 17 m. The results agree with established theory that scorch…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Butry
Each year, wildland fires threaten structures and occupants of the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Currently, wildfire ignition estimates largely exclude ignitions originating within municipal jurisdictions, which contain the majority of the US population. The objective of this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kocher, Toman, Trainor, Wright, Briggs, Goebel, MontBlanc, Oxarart, Peppin, Steelman, Thode, Waldrop
In 2009, the federal Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) initiated a national network of boundary organizations, known as regional fire science consortia, to accelerate the awareness, understanding, and use of wildland fire science. Needs assessments conducted by consortia in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heinsch, Andrews
The fire characteristics chart is a graphical method of presenting U.S. National Fire Danger Rating indices or primary surface or crown fire behavior characteristics. A desktop computer application has been developed to produce fire characteristics charts in a format suitable…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is the successor to BEHAVE, which was first used in the field in 1984. It is public domain software, available for free use on personal computers. Information on user communities and fire management applications can be useful in designing next…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall
The Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management (FAM) program and the Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (JCCCC) have formed an innovative partnership to expand the influence of the Job Corps program in filling future fire management positions in the Forest Service. At the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Romero, Menakis
The fuels and fire ecology program within the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management (FAM) program is aimed at protecting people and property from experiencing harm by wildfire, while taking actions to improve forest conditions. Since 2001, the Forest Service has treated…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Short
The statistical analysis of wildfire activity is a critical component of national wildfire planning, operations, and research in the United States (US). However, there are multiple federal, state, and local entities with wildfire protection and reporting responsibilities in the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Polley, Briske, Morgan, Wolter, Bailey, Brown
The amplified “greenhouse effect” associated with increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases has increased atmospheric temperature by 1°C since industrialization (around 1750), and it is anticipated to cause an additional 2°C increase by mid-century. Increased biospheric…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt
After extensive wildfires on the Seward Peninsula during summer 1977, BLM and NPS in 1978 jointly funded initiation of fire effects transects at Imuruk Lake in the central Seward Peninsula (Fig. 1). The Imuruk Lake site was chosen as a transect location because soils and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Meyers
Land managers in Alaska need information on lichen regeneration timelines specific to their region to establish sound fire management guidelines for caribou winter range. North American caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herds are largely dependent on lichens for winter forage. Winter…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
Recovery of the vegetation following the A-185 Fire, which burned in 1990 in the east central portion of the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, was monitored intermittently on 8 transects (TS) for 10 years beginning in 1991. The study areas (Black Spruce/Lichen Woodland, TS 1 and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ronchi, Gwynne, Rein, Wadhwani, Intini, Bergstedt
The number of evacuees worldwide during wildfire keep rising, year after year. Fire evacuations at the wildland-urban interfaces (WUI) pose a serious challenge to fire and emergency services and are a global issue affecting thousands of communities around the world. But to date…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward, Shevliakova, Malyshev, Lamarque, Wittenberg
Connections between wildfires and modes of variability in climate are sought as a means for predicting fire activity on interannual to multi-decadal timescales. Several fire drivers, such as temperature and local drought index, have been shown to vary on these timescales, and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES