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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and précis all types of surface fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and précis all types of surface fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across the landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and précis all types of surface…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leidolf, Bissonette
We reviewed the temporal, geographic, and biogeographic distribution, as well as relevant research and publication attributes, of 512 documents addressing the effects of fire on avian communities, to provide an assessment of the scope of this literature and recommendations for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Robinson, Gessler, Harrod, Smith
The canopy bulk density metric is used to describe the fuel available for combustion in crown fire models. We propose modifying the Van Wagner crown fire propagation model, used to estimate the critical rate of spread necessary to sustain active crown fire, to use foliar biomass…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Psarros, Polykrati, Karagiannopoulos, Bourkas
Wildfires, which are uncontrolled fires spreading readily over vast areas, are usually the result of human negligence, arson or lightning. There are cases of fires close to electrical distribution lines for which the network has been blamed. In the present paper, the risk of a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Glenn
Reflectance-based indices derived from remote-sensing data have been widely used for detecting fire severity in forested areas. Rangeland ecosystems, such as sparsely vegetated shrub-steppe, have unique spectral reflectance differences before and after fire events that may not…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pimont, Dupuy, Linn, Dupont
The wildfire model FIRETEC simulates the large coherent eddies of the wind-flows induced by the canopy. It has been qualitatively validated in its ability to simulate fire behavior, but there is still a need to validate physical submodels separately. In the present study, the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project-LANDFIRE-is a multipartner project designed to produce a consistent suite of standardized, multi-scale spatial data layers and models. The maps and data describe vegetation and wildland fuel and fire regimes…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Detailed information on fuel consumption and emissions from wildland fire in Alaska's boreal forests has been in short supply. Research has been limited by reliance on prescribed burns for data collection in a region where weather, freezing and thawing permafrost and limited…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Jolly
In 2005, 40 new fire behavior fuel models were published for use with the Rothermel Surface Fire Spread Model. These new models are intended to augment the original 13 developed in 1972 and 1976. As a compiled set of quantitative fuel descriptions that serve as input to the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wells, Hayes, Krause, Bartuska, LeVan-Green, Anderson, Gough, Adams, Schuler, Kolka, Sebestyen, Kenefic, Brissette, Stout, Kanoti, Swanson, Greene, Herring, Ritchie, Skinner, Lisle, Keppeler, Reid, Wohlgemuth, Kitchen, McCaughey, Guldin, Bragg, Shelton, Loftis, Greenberg, Murphy
In 2008, Forest Service Research and Development celebrated the Centennial Anniversary of these Experimental Forests and Ranges. This publication celebrates the many scientists who over the course of decades conducted the long-term studies that began and are continuing to shed…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Urbanski, Hao, Baker
Wildland fires are major sources of trace gases and aerosol, and these emissions are believed to significantly influence the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the earth's climate system. The wide variety of pollutants released by wildland fire include greenhouse gases,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sikkink, Lutes, Keane
This report details a procedure for identifying fuel loading models (FLMs) in the field. FLMs are a new classification system for predicting fire effects from on-site fuels. Each FLM class represents fuel beds that have similar fuel loadings and produce similar emissions and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reynolds, Hessburg, Keane, Menakis
The Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used by the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and Bureaus of the Department of the Interior since 2006 to evaluate wildfire potential across all administrative units in the continental US, and to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Preisler, Burgan, Eidenshink, Klaver, Klaver
The current study presents a statistical model for assessing the skill of fire danger indices and for forecasting the distribution of the expected numbers of large fires over a given region and for the upcoming week. The procedure permits development of daily maps that forecast…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Petters, Parsons, Prenni, DeMott, Kreidenweis, Carrico, Sullivan, McMeeking, Levin, Wold, Collett, Moosmüller
Biomass burning is a significant source of carbonaceous aerosol in many regions of the world. When present, biomass burning particles may affect the microphysical properties of clouds through their ability to function as cloud condensation nuclei or ice nuclei. We report on…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parisien, Miller, Ager, Finney
Techniques for modeling burn probability (BP) combine the stochastic components of fire regimes (ignitions and weather) with sophisticated fire growth algorithms to produce high-resolution spatial estimates of the relative likelihood of burning. Despite the numerous…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ostlund, Ahlberg, Zackrisson, Bergman, Arno
The Sami people of northern Scandinavia and many indigenous peoples of North America have used pine (Pinus spp.) inner bark for food, medicine and other purposes. This study compares bark-peeling and subsequent uses of pine inner bark in Scandinavia and western North America,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAllister, Fernandez-Pello, Ruff, Urban
Material flammability is an important factor in determining the pressure and composition (fraction of oxygen and nitrogen) of the atmosphere in the habitable volume of exploration vehicles and habitats. The method chosen in this work to quantify the flammability of a material is…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes, Keane, Caratti
We present a classification of duff, litter, fine woody debris, and logs that can be used to stratify a project area into sites with fuel loading that yield significantly different emissions and maximum soil surface temperature. Total particulate matter smaller than 2.5 m in…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lutes, Benson, Keifer, Caratti, Streetman
A new monitoring tool called FFI (FEAT/FIREMON Integrated) has been developed to assist managers with collection, storage and analysis of ecological information. The tool was developed through the complementary integration of two fire effects monitoring systems commonly used in…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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