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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Clements, Ward, Adkins
Photography is practical for recording and measuring some aspects of forest fire behavior if the scale and perspective can be determined. This paper describes a photogrammetric method for measuring flame height and rate of spread for fires on flat terrain. The flames are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prodon, Lebreton
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
Despite a half century of observation and data gathering, our knowledge of fire ecology in eastern hardwood forests is, for the most part, rudimentary. Little work has been done on measuring time/temperature profiles of fires, surface heat transfer coefficients, or insulating…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harrington
In the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS), a correction is added to fuel moisture stick values to offset weathering effects. This correction is now being adjusted to compensate for different weathering rates in different climates. The corrections for NFDRS climate class…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen
Sufficient data exist within the literature to allow the woody biomass of two subspecies of Artemisia tridentata, basin big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata ssp. tridentata), and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis), to be classified into 3 standard fuel…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bellinger, Kaiser, Harrison
An analysis, made by a cost-plus-net-value-change criterion, revealed that the amount of money spent nationwide to achieve an efficient fire protection on nonfederal forest and range lands is appropriate. However, improvements in efficiency can be achieved by increasing the fire…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamet-Ahti
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Looman
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Randolph
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Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Landrau, Samuels
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Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wellhausen, Roberts, Hernandez, Mangelsdorf
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Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
González-Cabán
A procedure has been developed for estimating the economic cost of initial attack and large-fire suppression. The procedure uses a per-unit approach to estimate total attack and suppression costs on an input-by-input basis. Fire management inputs (FMIs) are the production units…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mills
The analysis of alternative fire management programs should be integrated into the land and resource management planning process, but a single fire management analysis model cannot meet all planning needs. Therefore, a set of simulation models that are analytically separate from…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Norum, Van Veldhuizen, Teutsch
Fall seed-dispersing species, birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.), alder (Alnus crispa (Ait.) Pursh), and black spruce Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), and summer-seeding species, aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.), balsam poplar (P. balsamifera L.), feltleaf willow (Salix alaxensis…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Clements, Ward, Adkins
Photography is practical for recording and measuring some aspects of forest fire behavior if the scale and perspective can be determined. This paper describes a photogrammetric method for measuring flame height and rate of spread for fires on flat terrain. The flames are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Byram, Sauer, Fons, Arnold
Forest fuels are heterogeneous mixtures of a number of green and dead woody substances. Most common are leaves, grass, conifer needles, moss, bark, and wood. As a result of past fires, an area may also contain some charcoal. With the exception of charcoal, these materials are in…
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seaver, Roussopoulos, Freeling
A preliminary decision analysis model addressing the choice among alternative suppression strategies on escaped wildfires is presented. A case study application of the model, in the context of an Escaped Fire Situation Analysis on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, is…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Latham
This paper presents a system for locating lightning strikes and predicting the number of fire ignitions on forests and rangelands. This system uses variables representing weather and fuels and real-time lightning locations as inputs. Outputs from the system consist of printouts…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevins, Fischer
Describes structure of a computer system that allows fire managers to evaluate alternative prescriptions for unscheduled prescribed fires. Provides instructions for initial data entry and execution of programs RXBUILD andRXFIRES, the two main components of the system. A…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevins, Fischer
Describes a user-oriented computer system that allows fire managers to evaluate alternative prescriptions for unscheduled prescribed fires within specific fire management planning areas. Provides instructions for the use of the system, preparation of appropriate program inputs,…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, McClelland
Provides subject matter and geographic keyword indexes to more than 1,700 titles containing information about 86 species of cavity-nesting birds that inhabit North American forests. Related titles containing information about forest snags, fire, insects, disease, and decay are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini
Equations are presented by which to calculate the maximum firebrand particle lofting height from wind-driven line fires in surface fuels. Variables used are the fuel type, described as one of twelve stylized models used for fire behavior prediction, the fire intensity, and the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson
Documents the analysis of wind tunnel experiments on fire spread that produced a double ellipse concept of fire area growth. This provides ways of estimating size (area), shape (perimeter), and length to width ratio of a wind-driven wild land fire. The only inputs needed are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES