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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Prentice
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vines
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCutchan
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Riedman
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak, Reifsnyder
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Tang, Luo, Zhong, Winkler, Bian
From the text ... 'Researchers at Michigan State University and the Forest Services's Northern Research Station worked on a joint study to examine the possible effects of future global and regional climate change on the occurrence of fire-weather patterns often associated with…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cottrell
From the text...'Smokejumpers come from all over the country and represent a very diverse and well-educated workforce.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
North, Stephens, Collins, Agee, Aplet, Franklin, Fulé
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boer, Price, Bradstock
From the text...'Studies in Australia and the United States show that weather is a stronger determinant of fire severity than is fuel...Fuel treatment whether by managed fires or other means, may be most cost-effective when strategically targeted in close proximity to assets at…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wang, Thompson, Marshall, Tymstra, Carr, Flannigan
In Canadian forests, the majority of burned area occurs on a small number of days of extreme fire weather. These days lie within the tail end of the distribution of fire weather, and are often the periods when fire suppression capacity is most challenged. We examined the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Based primarily on the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) component parts, the Fire Weather Index (FWI) System and the Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System, this document can be used to guide learning users through the fire behavior assessment process from the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide is intended as a reference for US users who may have reason to work with the system in the United States, where English units are primarily used. Keep in mind that the Canadian Forest Service has produced the definitive selection of reference publications and tools…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
A method is presented for computing fine fuel moisture content at hourly intervals around the clock. It is derived from the standard daily Fine Fuel Moisture Code used in the Canadian system of forest fire danger rating. It produces diurnal cycles of fuel moisture content that…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler
No abstract
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson
From the text... 'The data in these tables and in the two additional tables listing "near-fatal” fires (Tables 3 and 4) help demystify these related fire types. It is possible to identify some common denominators of fire behavior in both fatal and near-fatal fires. It should be…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacPherson, Isaac
The turbulent characteristics of 17 Canadian cumulus clouds have been documented using the measurements from a specially instrumented T-33 aircraft. Most of the 33 cloud penetrations were made through the tops of cumuli 1—4.5 km in depth. Turbulent energy spectra over a range of…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Dorrer
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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
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
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
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
Bedía, Herrera, Gutiérrez, Benali, Brands, Mota, Moreno
Fire is an integral Earth system process, playing an important role in the distribution of terrestrial ecosystems and affecting the carbon cycle at the global scale. Fire activity is controlled by a number of biophysical factors, including climate, whose relevance varies across…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS