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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Trigg
Calculated values of precipitation effectiveness index and temperature efficiency index for 48 weather observation stations on the Alaska mainland are used to delineate areas that have different climatic subclassifications during the wildfire season of April through September.…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Song, Xu, Li, Oppong
Wildfire causes environmental, economic, and human problems or losses. This study reviewed wildfires induced by lightning strikes. This review focuses on the investigations of lightning mechanisms in the laboratory. Also, the paper aims to discuss some of the modeling studies on…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Ahmadov, James, Pereira, Freitas, Grell
Background: The record number of wildfires in the United States in recent years has led to an increased focus on developing tools to accurately forecast their impacts at high spatial and temporal resolutions.
Aims: The Warn-on-Forecast System for Smoke (WoFS-Smoke) was developed…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Wang, Yang, Liu
Global climate change and extreme weather has a profound impact on wildfire, and it is of great importance to explore wildfire patterns in the context of global climate change for wildfire prevention and management. In this paper, a wildfire spatial prediction model based on…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shinohara
Fire whirls cause strong wind damage in large outdoor fires such as wildland fires and urban fires. A model to predict the maximum tangential wind velocity in laboratory-scale fire whirls without flames in a crosswind is developed based on a generation mechanism and the…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Countryman
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Hartford
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Douglas
The application of weather modification techniques as a fire control tool was field tested in Alaska during the summers of 1969 and 1970. The 1969 trial was primarily exploratory. Data gathered indicated clouds or cloud-systems exist in interior Alaska which are amenable to…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swift
A short history of the fire weather service is presented with a report on progress made under the 'Federal Plan for a National Fire Weather Service.' The highlights of the plan and its application to the requirements of forest and range management interests in Alaska are…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder
From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
The need to develop improved methods for damage appraisal and a desire for better understanding of the economics of forest protection are illustrated with some data on forest fires in British Columbia, 1912-1968. Fire suppression and general protection costs have increased very…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
Implementation of Forest Fire Weather Forecasting requires the development for a procedure for obtaining representative wind speed observations for large areas. In this paper, a procedure is outlined whereby surface observations can be used to obtain area averages. The procedure…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harpster, Douglas
'...Whether in controlling the buildup index or in supressing fires once they are in progress, the techniques of weather modification must be considered -- at least at this point in their development -- as a potential supplement to other fire control techniques already in use.'
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
'Fuel moistures are among the most important environmental factors required in fire danger rating evaluations. Direct observations of fuel moisture such as with fuel sticks or other analog devices are desirable for evaluation of the current fire danger because they integrate all…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: 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
Fosberg, Deeming
Procedures for calculating the moisture contents of 1- and 10-hour timelag fuels have been developed based on theoretical calculations of the rate of moisture transport in wood. The 1 -hour timelag calculation is superior to fine fuel moisture calculations developed previously…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Countryman
'If it hadn't been for that damn fire whirl we would have caught it at 5 acres,' yelled the fire boss to his assistant as they watched the fire crews mop up the final smoldering spots in a 250-acre brush fire. The fire had been contained at about 5 acres, and the crew had just…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Countryman
'Humidity' is an eight-letter word that is heard around fire camps and on the fireline almost as often as the more widely known four-letter words. Most firefighters know that humidity has something to do with moisture in the air. If it is low, they expect difficulty in…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES