Fire can be used not only to protect forest ecosystems but also as a restoration tool. However, a successful application of fire requires knowing in advance the potential fire behavior (e.g., rate of spread and intensity). Without this information...
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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: Flores, Omi
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Forest fires are not spatially uniform events. They result in a complicated mosaic of burned and unburned vegetation. To manage fuel loads and the associated fire hazard it is essential to improve our understanding of the spatial patterns of the...
Person: Medler
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Mapping wildfire severity in boreal forest based on aerial photography and remote sensing [abstract]
The paper presents the results of mapping fire severity for the FROSTFIRE experiment at different spatial scales. The finest spatial data was collected before the fire on a grid of 160 intensive and 226 dispersed ground plots designed to study fuel bed...
Person: Alvarado, Sandberg, Ottmar
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Large moderate to severe high intensity stand replacement fires characterize the fire regime in the boreal forest of Interior Alaska. It is the moisture content of the moss profile that largely determines ignition probability and depth of fuel...
Person: Wilmore, Fox, Sandberg, Alexander
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
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...
Person: Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
A Crown Fire is observed with an airborne IR imager moving swiftly up a modest slope in mixed fuels. Light winds helped propel the blaze during the Frost Fire Experiment north of Fairbanks, Alaska in June 1999. A vigorous convective column capped with...
Person: Radke, Clark
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Airborne infrared (IR) observations were made of the prescribed burns between 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were made by pointing an Inframetrics
Person: Clark, Coen, Radke
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Wildland fire is a major disturbance agent that has shaped the biotic landscapes throughout time. The amount and duration of the heat determined by the availability of the fuels to consume is the ultimate driving force that causes a widespread range of...
Person: Ottmar, Vihnanek, Bluhm, Sandberg
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
The moisture content of material on a forest floor can play a significant role in its potential for fire ignition and resulting severity, especially in boreal ecosystems that contain deep layers of moss. To better understand the effect of weather and...
Person: Ferguson, Rorig, Bluhm, Sandberg
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
The USDA Forest Service Fire and Environmental Research Applications (FERA) Team, on behalf of the Joint Fire Sciences Program, is developing a system for characterizing fuels on managed and unmanaged wildland fuelbeds throughout the United States. The...
Person: Sandberg, Ottmar, Cushon
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS