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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Patoine, Pinel-Alloul, Prepas
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coxson, Marsh
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall, Brown, Bradshaw, Jolly, Nemani
Currently, the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) produces a daily Energy Release Component (ERC) index. The ERC index is directly related to the total available energy (BTUs) per unit area (in square feet) within the flaming front at the head of a fire. It essentially…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Otway
The Drought Code (DC), a component of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI), is an index of the amount of moisture in the deep forest floor. Its slow response time requires that allowances must be made for fall conditions and the overwinter snow fall in determining spring…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall, Brown
There are several monthly precipitation and drought indices and variants available in the U.S. such as the Palmer Drought Severity Index and the Standardized Precipitation Index. Each one has been designed for specific drought related questions, and most of them are utilized in…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews
Drought and fire danger rating indexes were evaluated in terms of their relationship to fire activity. The analysis was done for 15 locations throughout the U.S. Indexes include U.S. National Fire Danger Rating Energy Release Component for fuel model G (ERCg), 1000-h moisture,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhu, Vogelmann, Huang
The 1999 1-km historical natural fire regime and fire regime condition class maps, developed by the Forest Service using baseline data produced by the USGS scientists for general applications, have been widely used for national fire management planning purposes. However, the use…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Keane, Menakis, Zhu, Hann, Shlisky
LANDFIRE is an interagency effort to develop a comprehensive suite of standardized, multi-scale spatial data layers and software needed to support implementation of the National Fire Plan, Cohesive Strategy, and the President's Healthy Forest Initiative across the United States…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garfin, Wordell, Brown, Ochoa, Morehouse
Millions of acres are burned each year by wildland fires, in spite of much effort going into fuel treatments, prevention, and fire suppression. An array of effective decision-support products, tools, and processes is needed to anticipate regional resource needs, improve resource…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinbold, Brown, Hall, Roads
The Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been making extended Global Spectral Model (GSM) and Regional Spectral Model (RSM) forecasts since September 1997. Based on the GSM, the RSM produces 16-week forecasts of common…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roads, Chen, Fujioka, Burgan
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) has been making routine experimental, near real-time weekly to seasonal fire danger forecasts for the past 5 years. Images from these forecasts are regularly shown on the worldwide web (WWW) site (http://ecpc.ucsd.edu/)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larkin, McKenzie, O'Neill
Given the stochastic nature of fire ignition and spread, a modeling approach is needed to estimate the range of fire effects possible on current and future landscapes. We are developing a nationwide Fire Scenario Builder (FSB) that creates self-consistent, spatially explicit U.S…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beverly, Martell
We used the statistics of extreme values to characterize dry-spell extremes, or runs of consecutive days with little or no rain, and forest fire extremes in various geographical regions in the province of Ontario. Forest fire report records for the 1976-1999 period were used to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mohrle, Hall, Brown
In parts of the southwestern U.S., the commencement of the Southwest Monsoon initiates a decrease in wildland fire occurrence. Corresponding changes in meteorological elements such as relative humidity and dew point are some of the mitigating factors. For example, one commonly…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kolden, Brown
Prescribed fire is generally considered a useful tool in ecosystem restoration and hazardous fuels reduction. There are many variables associated with the decision process and level of control managers can assert over prescribed burning (e.g., risk, safety, contingency,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Achtemeier
Forest and agricultural burning release chemical compounds and particulate matter into the atmosphere. Although most of this material contributes to visibility reductions through haze and provides chemical constituents available for reactions with other atmospheric pollutants,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adkins, O'Neill, Rorig, Ferguson, Krull, Hoadley
Case study analyses of the BlueSky smoke modeling framework help identify the input values or modeling components that require improvement. BlueSky is a smoke forecasting system that combines burn information with models of consumption, emissions, meteorology, and dispersion to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Neill, Ferguson, Peterson, Wilson
BlueSky is a real-time smoke forecast system that predicts surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities. Developed by the USDA Forest Service in cooperation with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), it is a tool used by…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barna, Fox
This paper presents preliminary results of an effort to assess impacts caused by forest fires on regional air quality and visibility. Regional air quality is the result of many, many different sources of air pollution being transported, dispersed, chemically transformed, wet and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ohlen, Key, Benson, Zhu
Fire behavior within and across various landscapes results in a variety of spatial patterns of burn severity. This results in a variety of regeneration environments leading to greater landscape heterogeneity and species diversity in ecosystems. Mapping the spatial patterns of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhu
In recent years, requirements for consistent and operational burn mapping, using remote sensing means, have been mostly designed to provide support to land management in the field. However, this has ignored a perhaps more appropriate area of application in assessment and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benson, Key
The Composite Burn Index (CBI) is a field measure of burn severity. It captures the magnitude of ecological change on a site by rating many factors on a 30 meter plot and then integrating those factors to generate an estimate of burn severity. The strength of CBI depends on many…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Key, Benson, Ohlen, Howard, Zhu
A U.S. Department of Interior program to use Landsat to spatially quantify burn severity, using the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR or delta NBR), has prompted examination of a number of burns where both Initial and Extended Assessments were completed. The Initial…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Howard, Orlemann, Key
For several years, the US Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center and USGS EROS Data Center have produced Landsat-based products used by Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) teams and others to evaluate and map the impacts and effects of fire upon the landscape…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McKinley, Lannom, Parsons
Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams traditionally assess and map post-fire burn severity using a combination of aerial and ground reconnaissance. This process is expensive and time-intensive due to the potentially large areas to be assessed and often mountainous or…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS