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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Isaac, Schemenauer, Crozier, Chisholm, MacPherson, Bobbitt, MacHattie
A cloud seeding technique is proposed which has the objective of stimulating rainfall from cumulus clouds drifting over forest fires. Preliminary tests of the ice crystal production capability of the cloud seeding technique were conducted on five cumulus clouds near Yellowknife…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartigan
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haughland
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deardorff
A rate equation for soil-surface moisture fraction is developed which makes use of the more customary bulk soil moisture content, as well as the soil-surface evaporation rate minus precipitation rate. The two empirical constants involved are estimated from soil measurements of…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz
Economic limitations prevent the mapping over large areas of forest fire fuel types using conventional forestry methods. The information contained in such maps would be a valuable tool for assisting in initial attack planning, presuppression planning and fire growth modelling.…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster
'The smoke generated when wood is heated in air contains a considerable range of compounds resulting from the distillation and degradation of celluloses, lignins, resins and tannins. Visible particles which are formed when the smoke cools appear to equilibriate rapidly with the…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dorrer
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler, Kiil
Due to severe drought conditions, many of our states and most of the Canadian provinces experienced disastrous forest fires this year. Fires in California, Oregon, Washington, Florida, British Columbia, and other areas were particularly devastating to local forests. Are such…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Cohen, Deeming
This publication contains instructions for manually calculating the indexes and components of the 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS). The procedures are explained with worked examples. Working sets of nomograms for the 20 NFDRS fuel models are not included. However…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lodge
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Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beaufait
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Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis
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Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
A procedure for forecasting the 10-hour timelag fuel moisture was developed from the theory of diffusion in wood. Studies of fuel moisture processes relating meteorological variables, as an external force, to moisture exchange processes in wood are combined here to provide a…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Blakely, Johnson, Simmerman, Johnson
This report summarizes the development, history, and operational use of liquid ammonium phosphate and polyphosphate fire retardants since their first use in the early l960's. Several liquid ammonium polyphosphates were evaluated as long-term forest fire retardants in accordance…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Deeming, Burgan, Cohen
The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) updates the danger rating system developed in the early 1970's and published by Deeming and others in 1972. Numerous changes have been made to correct deficiencies and to incorporate new technology. The most significant of the…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Wildland fire involves both chemical and physical processes. In the burning of wildland fuel burns, their stored chemical energy is converted to thermal energy or heat through a series of complex chemical reactions. But for the combustion process to be started, heat must be…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Heat transfer is of paramount importance in wildland fire behavior and control. For a fire to start, heat must be transferred from a firebrand to the fuel. If the fire is to continue to burn and spread, heat must be transferred to the unburned fuel around the fire. And…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Three ingredients are essential for a wildland fire to start and to burn. First, there must be burnable fuel available. Then enough heat must be applied to the fuel to raise its temperature to the ignition point. And finally, there must be enough air to supply oxygen needed to…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
[Excerpted from text] As interest in the prediction of actual fire spread rate increases, some way of accounting for the effect of slope desirable. The literature contains a few references on this question, and five of these are compared here.
[This publication is referenced in…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moussa, Trischka, Eskinazi
In the mixing of a jet with a cross-stream, it is found that in the near field, defined as the region of the flow from the jet exit to a distance of a few diameters downstream of this exit, a considerable amount of dynamical adjustment takes place. This near-field region…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crosby
A set of value concepts and methods for appraising both values-at-risk and change in value resulting from wildfire are presented. Emphasis is placed on the effects of forest fires in terms of their affects on human and organization goal achievement. Fire effects that help…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff
Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baughman, Schmid
The characteristics of 23 cumulus congestus clouds were investigated in interior Alaska during the summer of 1973. Results show Alaskan lightning storms are generally smaller, more isolated, and produce less lightning than western Montana storms. Nine storms produced 123…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adams
The planar intersect technique involves counting or measuring diameters of woody pieces intersected by a vertical plane. It is based on the line intersect technique, which compares length of a given line and the amount of that line crossed by residue pieces. The sum of circular…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES