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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Spellman, Mulder, Hollingsworth
As climate rapidly warms at high-latitudes, the boreal forest faces the simultaneous threats of increasing invasive plant abundances and increasing area burned by wildfire. Highly flammable and widespread black spruce (Picea mariana) forest represents a boreal habitat that may…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), in partnership with the Association for Fire Ecology, offers Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) awards yearly to a handful of top-quality graduate students conducting research in fire science. GRIN awards are intended to nurture the next…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forest conservation and management in the Anthropocene: adaptation of science, policy, and practices
Climate change is but one aspect of the Anthropocene, a new epoch in which the effects of human activities have become the predominant force in the global biosphere. More than just an overlay on the traditional concerns of sustainable natural resource management, the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
El Houssami, Lamorlette, Simeoni, Morvan
The main goal of this study is to determine the applicability of a multiphase formulation (Larini et al. 1998) using the LES methodology for the prediction of a small-scale burning of porous forest fuel samples in a Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) based physical fire model,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Alexander
Operational guides for predicting various aspects of wildland fire behavior, including crowning, are generally dependent on mathematical models that can take a variety of forms. The degree of accuracy in predictions of crown fire behavior is dependent on the model's…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander
In many respects, the most significant issue with regards to the prediction of crown fire behavior is first determining whether a surface fire will develop into a crown fire (that is, identifying the conditions favorable to the initiation or onset of crowning). The next concern…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Alexander
Conifer forest stands are comprised of living and dead biomass in four separate fuel strata according to their vertical distribution and effects on fire behavior (see figure 1): ground fuels-principally the duff layer of the forest floor; surface fuels-the litter layer of the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cruz, Vaillant
The suggestion has been made that most wildland fire operations personnel base their expectations of how a fire will behave largely on experience and, to a lesser extent, on guides to predicting fire behavior (Burrows 1984). Experienced judgment is certainly needed in any…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Behavior Field Reference Guide (FBFRG) was developed as a hands-on user tool for field going Fire Behavior Analysts (FBANs) and Long Term Fire Analysts (LTANs) along with various operation personnel. The guide contains helpful references to fuels, weather, fuel models…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz, Vaillant
This special issue of Fire Management Today (FMT) contains eight articles highlighting the salient points gleaned from the resulting synthesis and supporting research articles-themselves a collaboration between JFSP Projects 09-2-01-11 and 11-1-14-16: 'Extreme Fire Behavior…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cruz
Typically, for wildfires in conifer forests to become large, some degree of crowning must occur. A common axiom in wildland fire management is that approximately 95 percent of area burned is generally caused by less than about 5 percent of the fires. A forest fire at the very…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
When a fire in a conifer forest stand crowns, additional fuel is consumed primarily in the form of needle foliage but also in mosses and lichens, bark flakes, and small woody twigs. The additional canopy fuel consumed by a crown fire combined with the increase in rate of fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cruz
In conifer forests, three broad types of fire are commonly recognized on the basis of the fuel stratum or strata controlling their propagation: ground or subsurface fire, surface fire, and crown fire. Ground or subsurface fires burn very slowly in the duff layer with no visible…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gitas, SanMiguel-Ayanz, Chuvieco, Camia
This foreword describes advances and challenges for the use of remote sensing and geographic information systems in the operational monitoring and management of wildland fires at local, regional and global scales since the 1970s. Selected articles using remote sensing in…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Morvan, Lamorlette
Wind flow is certainly one of the most important factors affecting the behaviour of wildfires. However its effect upon the propagation of the fire front is not yet understood. The relationship between the rate of spread (ROS) and the wind speed velocity appears in the literature…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Though better land and forest stewardship seem crucial to the prevention of wildfires, the fighting of such fires also matters. How wildfire managers, who are assigned the duty of responding to wildfires once they break out, react to and engage in the wildfire fighting task,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grabner, Stambaugh, Marschall, Abadir
The Joint Fire Science Program established 14 regional fire science knowledge exchange consortia to improve the delivery of fire science information and communication among fire managers and researchers. Consortia were developed regionally to ensure that fire science information…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duhnkrack, Struhar, Kirsch
As a result of the need for an updated analysis of the wildland fire workload within the National Park Service (NPS), coupled with projected declines in wildland fire operating budgets over the next several years, the NPS completed development of a workload analysis for…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schoeffler
Recognizing dark bands (dry slots) in satellite water vapor imagery reveals surface and near-surface drying and winds that can adversely affect fire behavior and firefighter safety. A review of the literature regarding mid- to upper-atmosphere influences on wildland fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Vaillant, Cruz
This poster paper presentation provides a summary of the types of information sought from field practitioners regarding the Joint Fire Science Program synthesis project "Crown fire behavior characteristics and prediction in conifer forests: a state-of-knowledge synthesis."
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Ellison, Faulring, Holley, Hornsby, Hudak, Ichoku, Kremens, Loudermilk, Maben, Martinez, O'Brien, Paxton, Schroeder, Zajkowski
An ongoing challenge in fire measurement is obtaining quantitative and validated measurements of fire power (kW m-2) and energy (kJ m-2) across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Our approach to measurement has been hierarchical, where characterization of the fire heat…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This paper constituents the remarks made during the introduction of the special session "Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: A Tribute to George M. Byram (1909-1996) - Pioneering Scientist in Forest Fire Research" held on February 20, 2013, at the International Association of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Engelhaupt
Approximately 5 billion dollars in US revenue is allocated annually to the USDA Forest Service (USFS) for ~ 30,000 employees, 10,000 of whom are firefighters responsible for fire management on about 193 million acres according to the web sites >http://www.fs.fed.us/aboutus/…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Liu, Hussaini, Okten
Rothermel's wildland surface fire spread model is widely used in North America. The model outputs depend on a number of input parameters, which can be broadly categorized as fuel model, fuel moisture, terrain and wind parameters. Due to the inevitable presence of uncertainty in…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS