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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Schroeder, Buck
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee, Hellman
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Murphy
Discussions with fire-weather forecasters and their responses to the questionnaire revealed that SFWF's for prescribed burns typically include forecasts for the planned ignition time and three twelve-hour periods as well as a long-range outlook, and that SFWF's are usually…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the text: 'In 1959 Williams published a method of calculating the fire season severity rating, an integrated measure of fire weather over the whole season. Being based solely on the daily fire danger index (1956 type), it could be used as an objective yardstick for…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
From the text: 'In summary, the coupling of a burning prescription which could deliver adequate fire intensity with gelled gasoline helitorch ignition to overcome some of the fuel arrangement and topographic problems resulted in a generally successful rehabilitation effort at…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Text: 'Recent spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) infestations have resulted in widespread areas of balsam fir (Abies balsamea [L.] Mill) mortality in Ontario and interest in converting these areas back into productive forest by the use of a tramping following by a…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Text: 'Eleven experimental burns were conducted in the Kapuskasing District of the northern Clay Belt Region in Ontario for the period 1979-1983. The test fires, using strip headfires for ignition, were used to study the fire behavior in boreal mixedwood slash fuel complexes as…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Connaughton
From the text: 'We have established that fire in the Intermountain West is a well recognized and time honored natural orce as part of our dynamic evolution. We have had no trouble agreeing that fire preceded man and, until very recently at least, has been a far more potent force…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Matson, Schneider, Aldridge, Satchwell
This report discusses the potential usefulness of thermal infrared sensors onboard NOAA polar-orbiting satelites for detecting fires. In particular, the 3.8-micron channel is sensitive to high temperature sources such as fires. This paper will demonstrate how the 3.8-micron…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner
The accumulated hours of bright sunshine provide a simple index of fire season severity for the southern coastal area of British Columbia. This index, based on the period May 1 to August 31, is highly correlated with the annual acreage burned over the Vancouver Forest District.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
Between 1931 and 1961 Canadian forest fire researchers gathered a vast quantity of data on weather, fuel moisture and test fire behavior. The original purpose of the data was primarily for the development of forest fire danger tables. The data was gathered at 11 field stations…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
Large suppression programs have been organized in an effort to avoid the potentially large damages from wildfires. To help determine the efficient sizes and usage of these programs, simulation models have been developed. Recent widespread implementation of one such model --…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg, Lancaster, Schroeder
Standard drying conditions in the laboratory have been related to the diurnal fluctuations of temperature and humidity to define a standard drying day for forest fuels. The mean equilibrium moisture content of a fuel on a standard drying day is slightly different from the…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Martin
The fire whirlwind, an erratic and violent phenomenon associated with the behavior of intense fires, may generate velocities comparable to those reached in tornadoes. All the conditions essential to the formation of fire whirlwinds can be readily produced in the laboratory on a…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cargill
Fire perimeters can be quickly estimated using a 'rate of spread/elapsed time' table. This eliminates the need for plotting the fire acreage in order to determine the perimeter of the fire, and control force requirements based on fire perimeter can be determined quicker.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schroeder, Buck
Weather is never static. It is always dynamic. Its interpretation is an art. The art of applying complex information about weather to the equally complex task of wildland fire control cannot be acquired easily especially not by the mere reading of a book. The environment is in…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chase
Extends equations for calculating the maximum spot fire distance to include wind-driven fires burning in surface fuels as a firebrand source. Predictions are based upon prevailing windspeed, vegetational cover, and local terrain. The equations can be used on a programmable…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
Aerial ignition devices are being used which can start fires by a succession of point sources or by a line of fire. Through the use of these devices, the fire manager has considerable control of the fire situation. Control of the ultimate fire behavior depends on the ignition…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schroeder, Buck
[Excerpt from text] The fire weather occurring on a particular day is a dominant factor in the fire potential for that day. Fire climate well may be thought of as the synthesis of daily fire weather over a long period of time, is a dominant factor in fire control planning.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lotspeich, Mueller, Frey
From objectives (page 13): 'Objectives of the study were: (1) to develop sufficient understanding of the effects of forest fires on water quality of Alaskan streams so that it may be possible to make rational decisions for allocating manpower and funds for controlling specific…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS