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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Barrett, Arno
This report describes use of increment borers for interpreting fire history in coniferous forests. These methods are especially useful in wildernesses, parks, and other natural area where fire history is needed for fire management planning, but where sawing cross-sections from…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Deusen, Koretz
The effect of climate on tree rings may change over time as a result of stand dynamics or environmental stress. These dynamic effects can be studied using theory and computer programs and further information on their use are availabe from the authors.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Matthiessen
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kleinfield
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cross, Fleming
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Higgins, Fellows, Callow, Kruse, Piehl
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall
The combustion products (smoke) from forest wildfires or prescribed burns are often considered on a par with any other emission that might affect air quality. But enough is known about smoke from woody fuels to indicate that its importance is limited almost entirely to…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hare, Ritchie
The long-established zonal divisions of the boreal forest-forest-tundra, open woodland, and closed forest-are examined in the light of new information about energy income and of satellite photographs of the divisions themselves. The North American divisions are found to lie…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Changes in solar radiation arising from changes in the orientation of the earth?s axis had pronounced effects on tropical monsoons and mid-latitude climates as well as on ice-sheet configuration during the last 18,000 years. COHMAP (Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project) has…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin
Holocene glacial fluctuations between Arctic, central interior, and southern maritime Alaska are broadly synchronous. This synchrony is evident from a review of work in 11 study areas with varying numbers of glaciers (3-100), glacier types (subpolar cirque, temperate valley,…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan
The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System does not work well in the humid environment of the Eastern United States. System modifications to correct problems and their operational impact on System users are described. A new set of 20 fuel models is defined and compared…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Deeming, Lancaster, Fosberg, Furman, Schroeder
The National Fire-Danger Rating (NFDR) System produces three indexes-Occurrence, Burning, and Fire Load-that measure relative fire potentials. These indexes are derived from the fire behavior components-Spread, Energy Release, and Ignition-plus a consideration of Risk. Three…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips, George, Nelson
Presents current (1988) fireline production rates for bulldozers, by size of machine, fuel type, slope, and site conditions. Includes nomograms and a master table for estimating production rates. Describes how data were collected and production rates were calculated.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Blakely
Ponderosa pine needle and aspen excelsior fuel beds, chosen because they exhibit different chemical fuel characteristics, were treated with various amounts of ammonium sulfate and ammonium phosphate and burned in a wind tunnel under controlled environmental conditions. The rate…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Philpot, Johnson, George, Wallace, Blakely
The benefits from fire use - including hazard reduction, silvicultural manipulation, pathogen control, and nutrient recycling - might be forfeited by public reaction to smoke, whether harmful or not. Generally, the public desires alternatives to burning, but might accept fire if…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blakely
Four commercially available forest fire retardants were studied to quantify their capabilities for flammability reduction using standard laboratory conditions and procedures. All the retardants proved to be closely matched in reducing flammability.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Gehring
The corrosivity of long-term wildland fire retardants delivered by airtankers has been a continuing concern since the beginning of the retardant program in 1955. During the fall of 1986, the severity of corrosion was investigated at air-attack bases in Oregon, California, and…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Experience with wildland fires soon teaches that no two are exactly alike. Fire behavior is not an independent phenomenon-it is the product of the environment in which the fire is burning. Environment has been defined as 'surrounding conditions, influences, and forces that…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
A laboratory experiment was performed to determine the effect of slope on the downhill spread rate of forest fire. Results with beds of pine needles showed that the spread rate decreased to 64 percent of the level rate as slope was raised to 22 degrees, then gradually increased…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Small, Heikes
Fires simultaneously burning in hundreds of square kilometers could result from a nuclear weapon explosion. The strong buoyancy field of such large area fires induces high-velocity fire winds that turn upward in the burning region. This results in the vertical transport of a…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines
Dry, unstable air increases the probability that wildland fires will become large and/or erratic. This paper describes an atmospheric index for these fires, based on the environmental lapse rate of a layer of air coupled with its moisture content. In low-elevation regions of the…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS