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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Wood-based paneling as thermal barriers

White
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire management: a state of the art review and bibliography

Baumgartner, Simard
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biosocial systems analysis: an approach for assessing the consequences for resource policies

Bonnicksen, Lee
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

New system developed for appraising wildfire effects

Baumgartner, Gorte
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting prescribed burning costs of wildlife habitat management

Jackson, Flowers, Loveless, Schuster
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The dilemma of flame length and intensity

Johnson
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Downward propagation of smoldering combustion through solid materials

Kinbara, Endo, Sega
[no description entered]
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A physical model for firespread in brush

Albini
The elements of a theory for the process of free spread of fire through brush are presented in terms of simple stepwise processes, which are analyzed separately but joined by their common physical parameters. The stepwise processes analyzed are: (1) Preheating (by radiation) and…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The fire whirl

Emmons, Ying
[no description entered]
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Natural convection plume above a circular ring fire

Lee, Ling
[no description entered]
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Radiation effects on large fire plumes

Smith
Recent attempts to model the flow in very hot fire plumes where radiative transport of heat may significantly modify both the dynamics of the flow and the processes of combustion have met with only partial success. This paper gives an account of a model for the flow in a…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Horizontal roll vortices and crown fires

Haines
Observational evidence form nine crown fires suggests that horizontal roll vortices are a major mechanism in crown-fire spread. Post-burn aerial photography indicates that unburned tree-crown streets are common with crown fire. Investigation of the understory of these crown…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Resource values in analyzing fire management programs for economic efficiency

Althaus, Mills
In analyzing fire management programs for their economic efficiency, it is necessary to assign monetary values to the changes in resource outputs caused by fire. The derivation of resource values is complicated by imperfect or nonexistent commericial market structures. The…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A statistical analysis of the frequency of lightning-caused forest fires

Marsden
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Response of free-burning fires to nonsteady wind

Albini
A speculative, phenomenological model is formulated for the time-varying intensity and spread rate of a free-burning fire under the influence of nonsteady wind. The model is linearized by approximations and explicit solutions derived for the amplitude response of spread rate and…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire in America: a cultural history of wildland and rural fire

Pyne
From the book jacket...'From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen J. Pyne's narrative explores the efforts of sucessive American cultures to master this forbidding kind of fire and to use it to shape the landscape. He draws not only on academic experience…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire history and its role in succession

Martin
Fire occurs at various intervals in differnet vegetation types. Intervals between fires are longer in warm, dry sites where small amount of fuel limits fire spread and in cool, wet sites where burning conditions are limiting despite the large amount of fuel. The shortest fire…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Evaluating potential tree mortality from prescribed burning

Ryan
Prescribed burning is increasingly being used under standing timber for site preparation and fuels management. Managers need guidelines for determining species and individual tree characteristics that are potentially capable of incurring minimal injury from a fire treatment. A…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Investigations of secondary productivity in grasslands

Wiegert, Evans
From the Conclusion: 'The study of secondary productivity in grassland ecosystems is potentially of use in both theoretical and applied ecology. Energy flow studies, far from being complete or obsolete, are really just beginining. We have surprisingly little information on the…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulation models to improve knowledge of the dynamics of forest fires

Calliari, Cantiani
An experimental model is described for simulating the dynamics of the initial phase of a forest fire in a conifer stand with a wind blowing persistently in the same direction. It is shown that the characteristic burns on the bark at the base of the stem make it possible to…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Calorific values of the volatile pyrolysis products of wood

Brenden
As a part of the continuing fire research programme of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory, a method was developed which allows direct calculation of the heat combustion of volatile pyrolysis products as the difference between the heat of combustion of unpyrolysed wood and the…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Production rates for crews using hand tools on firelines

Haven, Hunter, Storey
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Developing fire and silvicultural prescriptions for site preparation, an example

Bunnell, Christophersen
The burning prescription is an integral part of the silvicultural prescription. Writing these prescriptions for site preparation objectives involves close coordination between the fire manager and silviculturist. A negotiating period during the sale planning process is necessary…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Comparison of several aitken nuclei counters

Podzimek, Carstens, Yue
The basic thermodynamical processes leading to the formation of droplets in the central part of the Nolan-Pollak counter are analyzed in some detail. The comparison of the UMR-Absolute Aitken Nuclei counter with Nolan-Pollak, General Electric and Gardner counters showed…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A study of habitat temperatures of the bark beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins in lodgepole pine

Powell
Temperatures were measured at the bark suface and in the subcortical zone of Pinus contorta DOUGLAS var. latifolia ENGLEM. infested by Dendroctonus ponderosae HOPKINS. and compared with similar measurements in non-infested trees and with air temperatures. Subcortical…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS