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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Burgess
Annual aboveground wood increment in the world's forests is approximately 12.9 billion metric tons. At 50 percent accessibility, about 6.5 billion tons are available for all wood uses. On the assumptions of 3.5 x 10 (6) kcal/ton of air-dried wood, a thermal-electric conversion…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beran
Stability of the atmosphere at different levels is one important factor affecting the behavior of forest fires, but the measurement of stability and other atmospheric phenomena is complex and difficult. The acoustic echo sounder shows promise for measuring these parameters and…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mitchell
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sharrow, Wright
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bragg
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parmeter, Uhrenholdt
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Furman
For reasons of economy it may be necessary to close one or several fire-weather stations in a protection area. Since it is logical to close those stations that will have the least impact on the ability of the fire manager to assess overall fire danger, it is desirable to know if…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Hawksworth
Wildfires play a multiple role in the distribution of dwarf mistletoes - they may either inhibit or encourage these parasites depending primarily on the size and intensity of the burn. Many reports suggest that fire exclusion policies of the past half century have resulted in…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mees
Dispatching of firefighting resources requires instantaneous or precalculated decisions. A FORTRAN computer program has been developed that can provide a list of resources in order of computed arrival time for initial attack on a fire. The program requires an accurate…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg
The model was developed from numerical and analytical solutions of the diffusion forms of the mass continuity equation and the first law of thermodynamics. Analytical solutions provided a functional framework to evaluate nonlinear interactions obtained in the numerical solutions…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen, Schuette
Maximum load-loss rate within the combustion zone of a vertically (downward) spreading fire was obtained for excelsior (0.07 cm in cross-section) at bulk densities from 0.0016 to 0.026 g/cm. Fuel was contained within a continuously weighed circular wire mesh basket 1 ft (929 cm…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George
Several fire retardants in current use were dropped from the Canadair CL-215 to determine drop height effects and for evaluation of the tank and gating system. This was accomplished through the quantification and analysis of the characteristics of the ground distribution…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini
Describes an algorithm for separating fuel depth data into distinctive groups of measurements. The algorithm is justified heuristically, through its mathematical similarity to the "tuner" of a radio receiver. Test data generated artificially were used to maximize the sensitivity…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lee, Otto
A report is hereby given to the results of an originally seemingly inconspicuous burn in a simple simulated urban street arrangement which is inductive to probable gross vortex formation. These results reveal in vivid details a series of most unusual and exciting events of gross…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
The way that a wildland fire burns and behaves, and the difficulty of controlling it, are closely related to the manner and rate of heat transfer. The speed with which fire spreads, for example, depends greatly on how quickly sufficient heat for ignition can be transferred to…
Year: 1978
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: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini, Korovin, Gorovaya
This paper presents a mathematical formulation of the construction of a containment perimeter for a wildland fire. The formulation permits the calculation of total burned area, final perimeter, and containment time, if the rate of growth of the fire can be specified as a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Morton, Leslie
Earlier models of fire plumes based on simple entrainment laws and neglecting dynamic pressure have failed to produce the relatively shallow inflow over the fire perimeter known as fire wind. This inflow is of prime importance in fire modelling as it normally provides much of…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walsh
Sections 111 and 112 of the Clean Air Act relative to the control of particulates are evaluated. Section 111 provides the promulgation of standards for hazardous pollutants which reflect the best systems of emission reduction. Section 112 defines national emission standards for…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McMahon, Tsoukalas
The occurrence of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the combustion products of carbonaceous fuels is a well known phenomenon. Several PAW are known to be carcinogenic in animals. Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is the most well-known and studied compound of those classified by the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burchard
The advancement of technology relating to particulate emission is pointed out as a significant aspect of this nation's air pollution control efforts. Important factors include the ability of particulates: to cause poor visibility, to constitute a health hazard, to act as…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer
Provides a standard format and checklist to guide the land manager through the important steps for prescribed hurning. Describes the kind of information necded to prepare fire prescriptions and burning plans. Identifies the elements of a fire prescriptlon, a burning plan, and a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES