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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Brown, Murphy
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rehfeldt
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steuter
The post-glacial evolution of North American Mixed Prairie was influenced by the physical process of fire and the biological process of bison (Bison bison) grazing. These disturbances interacted with aboveground herbaceous production being the primary fuel and forage. The fire…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deeming
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fryer, Johnson
(1)The behaviour of the August 1936 Galatea fire in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains was reconstructed with respect to the rate of spread, frontal-fire intensity and fuel consumption, and illustrates that tree mortality, seed dispersal distance into the burn and…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daubenmire, Prusso
[no description entered]
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell, Fullerton
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nelson, Adkins
Data for the behavior of 59 experimental wind-driven fires were extracted from the literature for use in determining a correlation among several variables known to influence the rate of forest fire spread. Also included in the correlation were unpublished data from six field…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Hartford
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
From the text: 'Research has demonstrated that a high correlation exists between the moisture content of fine fuels and the moisture content of the ambient air. The mortarboard psychrometer was developed by the Southern Forest Fire Laboratory to provide a simple, accurate, yet…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boychuk, Martell
A model was developed to help resolve the decision of how many fire fighters a large forest fire management agency should hire for a fire season to minimize expected cost plus fire loss. It addresses the use of fire fighters for both initial and extended attack, the temporary…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradshaw
The problem of fire protection in the urban/wildland interface is a complex combination of three components: fire behavior and combustion, social and political factors, and the cooperation of property owners. By examing the problem's component parts, it is easier to understand…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delisle, Woodard, Titus, Johnson
This study assessed the variability of sample estimates for downed and dead woody fuel weight in natural lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl) stands using line-intersect sampling procedures. Equilateral triangles (30 m/side) were established at each of 40 sample sites with…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram
It is assumed that the flow of moisture in forest fuels and other woody materials is determined by the gradient of a quantity g which is a function of some property, or properties, of the moisture content. There appears to be no preferred choice for this function, hence moisture…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Matthiessen
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
Thomas
Uncontrolled fires produce flames where the initial momentum of the fuel is low compared with the momentum produced by buoyancy. The heights of such flames with wood as the fuel are examined and discussed in terms of both a dimensional analysis and the entrainment of air into…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chandler, Storey, Tangren
Mass fires are likely to follow a nuclear attack. Since it is important to the civil defense program to be able to predict rate, duration, and extent of spread of such fires, the Office of Civil Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, issued a joint contract to the Forest Service…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This report represents a compilation and classification of nearly all the available written information on the CFFDRS. Plans call for a 20-year (1969-1988) annotated bibliography of CFFDRS literature to be issued as a CFS Forestry Technical Report in 1989. The present…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Smith, Mann
From the text ... 'An overview of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System has been prepared by Lawson et al. (1985). The FBP System includes the provision for calculating the size and shape of free-burning, wild-driven fires originating from a single ignition…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Fischer
The advent of 'fire management' has increased the need to understand and predict fire effects on vegetation. Such prediction is greatly complicated by the many factors that influence fire characteristics and plant response. Nevertheless, a few approaches have been developed to…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS