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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
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Griggs
[no description entered]
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Enfield, Conner
[no description entered]
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
[no description entered]
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kittredge
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chang
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kendeigh
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
[no description entered]
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Little, Dorman
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scesa, Sauer
From the Summary ... 'The transfer theory is applied to the problem of atmospheric diffusion of momentum and heat induced by line and point sources of heat on the surface of the earth. In order that the validity of the approximations of the boundary layer theory be realized, the…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Höricht
From the text ... ' It is almost impossible for forestry to do anything in defense against smoke devastation. Even when conditions of terrain permit, the cultivation of timber with higher smoke resistance is outweighed by the important factor of mininum mass effect. Incidentally…
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sidle
Before examining the impacts of forest management practices on surface erosion, it is appropriate to ask the question 'Why should we be concerned with surface erosion?' One of the most important impacts of surface erosion on forest lands is the decrease in site productivity…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrows, Schaefer, MacCready
This report describes the factors which led to the establishment of Project Skyfire and presents the first results of its operation. Skyfire is a program designed to acquire basic scientific information about lightning fires in western forests, the atmospheric and cloud…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shantz
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stelfox
'In trials at Swift Current, Saskatchewan and Lacome, Alberta, the following treatments were used: spring burning and no burning, row spacings 1, 2, 3 and 4 ft. apart and no manure, ammonium phosphate (16-12-0 NPK) at 135 lb. per ac., ammonium phosphate at 250 lb. per ac., and…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangelsdorf
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
[Excerpted from text] Violent or erratic fire behavior often develops as a complete surprise even to the more experienced fire fighters. Such behavior usually is not completely explained and is frequently dismissed with the remark that the fire suddenly "blew up." Unusual fire…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arnold, Buck
"Blow-up" fires are defined as those which exhibit violent build-up in fire intensity or rate of spread sufficient to prevent direct control by efficient application of conventional firefighting methods. Blow-ups are an increasingly important cause of large fires and can arise…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Byram
A study of atmospheric conditions related to blowup fires.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Robinson
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCambridge
Reports on black-headed budworm activity in southeast Alaska, spruce beetle on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska and larch beetle along the Kuskokwim River in interior Alaska during the summer of 1954.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Banfield
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Birket-Smith, De Laguna
Notes on page 106 the use of fire for signaling by the Eyak people.
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chatelain
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hosking
From the summary and conclusions ... 'The low temperature ignition of soil organic matter has been investigated for temperatures ranging from 100 to 500º C. Appreciable losses are found to occur below 100º C.; up to 200º C. heating results essentially in the distillation of…
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS