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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kovalev, Wold, Petkov, Hao
We present an alternative method for determining the total offset in lidar signal created by a daytime background-illumination component and electrical or digital offset. Unlike existing techniques, here the signal square-range-correction procedure is initially performed using…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev, Petkov, Wold, Urbanski, Hao
Mobil scanning lidar is the most appropriate tool for monitoring wildfire smoke-plume dynamics and optical properties. Lidar is the only remote sensing instrument capable of obtaining detailed three-dimensional range-resolved information for smoke distributions and optical…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev, Petkov, Wold, Urbanski, Hao
The methodology of using mobile scanning lidar data for investigation of smoke plume rise and high-resolution smoke dispersion is considered. The methodology is based on the lidar-signal transformation proposed recently [Appl. Opt. 48, 2559 (2009)]. In this study, similar…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kim, Bettinger, Finney
Methods for scheduling forest management activities in a spatial pattern (dispersed, clumped, random, and regular) are presented, with the intent to examine the effects of placement of activities on resulting simulated wildfire behavior. Both operational and fuel reduction…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Hessburg, Landres, Swanson
This paper examines the past, present, and future use of the concept of historical range and variability (HRV) in land management. The history, central concepts, benefits, and limitations of HRV are presented along with a discussion on the value of HRV in a changing world with…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heinsch, Andrews, Kurth
Interpretation of fire danger rating indices in the U.S. is based on the historic weather of a given area. Index values can be interpreted differently for different regions and for different fuel models in the same region. Therefore, indices are often expressed in relative terms…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haston, Finney, Horcher, Yates, Detrich
The National Technology and Development Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, was asked to conduct an exploratory study on the ignition potential of muzzle-loading firearms. The five independent variables investigated include projectile type, powder type…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Grenfell, McHugh
Billions of dollars are spent annually in the United States to contain large wildland fires, but the factors contributing to suppression success remain poorly understood. We used a regression model (generalized linear mixed-model) to model containment probability of individual…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Using satellite imagery analysis together with computer simulation may improve burn severity mapping
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