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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Flannigan, Harrington
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deeming
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gatewood, Wright
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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
Van Wagner
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Hartford
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Borsum, Haines
From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Logan, Stocks, Wotton, Amiro, Todd
In this study we use historical relationships between weather, the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System components and ecozone area burned in Canada on a monthly basis in tandem with output from GCMs from the Canadian Climate Centre and the United Kingdom Hadley Centre to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
Presented for Lesson 31 of the S-590 Advanced Fire Behavior Interpretation Course at the National Advanced Resource Technology Center in Marana, Arizona, 10-22 March 2002.
Outline of Presentation:I. CFFDRS StructureII. Fire Weather Index Module or SubsystemIII. Fire Behavior…
Year: 2002
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bergeron, Leduc, Harvey, Gauthier
The combination of certain features of fire disturbance, notably fire frequency, size and severity, may be used to characterize the disturbance regime in any region of the boreal forest. As some consequences of fire resemble the effects of industrial forest harvesting,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wierzchowski, Heathcott, Flannigan
This study examines the influences of fuel, weather and topography on lightning-caused forest fires in portions of southern British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. The results show a significant difference in lightning and ligntning-caused fires east and west of the Continental…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greenlee, Greenlee
From the text ... 'Like similar fires elsewhere, the Cerro Grande Fire burned hotter than historical fires because of fuel buildups from years of fire suppression.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weatherford
From the text ... 'State agencies are cooperating more due to the increasing number of large, damaging wildland fires.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee, Alexander, Hawkes, Lynham, Stocks, Englefield
This paper provides an overview of four national forest fire management information systems currently used in Canada. The Canadian forest fire danger rating system (CFFDRS) is a non-spatial system, which provides the science framework for fire danger rating in Canada. The…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Andresen
The authors present a finite-difference numerical model of heat flow within a horizontal section of a tree stem. Processes included in the model are solar radiative heating, infrared emission and absorption, convective heat exchange between tree surface and the atmosphere, and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Fire-growth modeling on complex landscapes can be approached as a search for the minimum time for fire to travel among nodes in a two-dimensional network. The paths producing minimum travel time between nodes are then interpolated to reveal the fire perimeter positions at an…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Morandini, Santoni, Balbi, Ventura, Mendes-Lopes
In a previous work (Santoni et al., Int. J. Wildland Fire, 2000, 9(4), 285-292), we proposed a twodimensional fire spread model including slope effects as another step towards our aim to elaborate a fire management tool. In the present study, we improve the model to include both…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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
Small, Heikes
Fires simultaneously burning in hundreds of square kilometers could result from a nuclear weapon explosion. The strong buoyancy field of such large area fires induces high-velocity fire winds that turn upward in the burning region. This results in the vertical transport of a…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines
Dry, unstable air increases the probability that wildland fires will become large and/or erratic. This paper describes an atmospheric index for these fires, based on the environmental lapse rate of a layer of air coupled with its moisture content. In low-elevation regions of the…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ferguson
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES