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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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The effect of fire severity on postfire recovery of hazel and raspberry in east-central Alberta

Johnston, Woodward
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An evaluation of burning for control of winter ticks, dermacentor albipictus, in central Alberta

Drew, Samuel, Lukiwski, Willman
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

National Fire-Danger Rating System: user's guide

From the text...'INTRODUCTION This guide gives forest managers a description of the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS), and explains the standards and procedures involved. It contains a brief explanation of the basic structure and factors considered and incorporates…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Meteorological tools for wilderness fire management

Fox, Blankenship, Dietrich
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Technology and scientific advancement in fire and forest meteorology

Sommers
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effect of drought on live fuel moisture content

Johansen
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A decade with the Forestry Weather Interpretation System (FWIS)

Paul, Pierovich
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The sensitivity of the Palmer Drought Severity Index and Palmer's Z-index to their calibration coefficients including potential evapotranspiration

Karl
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Palmer Drought Index and its availability as an indicator of forest fire watch areas

Heddinghaus
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Drought and synoptic fire climatology of the boreal forest region of the Canada prairie provinces

Street
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Extrapolation of wind, temperature, and humidity on a conically-shaped mountain

McCutchan
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Moisture and fine forest fuel

Anderson
The dynamics of the fine forest fuel's response to moisture changes have not been fully recognized. Fire behavior systems now in use consider all fine fuels to have a 1-hour response time. Experimental results of testing a wide range of fine fuels show the change in moisture…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The 500mb anomaly chart: a useful fire management tool

Janz, Nimchuk
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Objective methods for fire weather network design

Fujioka
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Probability modeling of a fire weather index

Fujioka, Tsou
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire weather program preliminary survey results

Parker
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Quantification of the uncertainty in spot fire-weather forecasts: some experimental results

Brown, Murphy, Radloff
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forecasting fire danger and fire occurrence for wilderness fire management

Saveland
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weather -- the drive train connecting the solar engine to forest ecosystems: Proceedings of the Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology, No. 8

[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mann Gulch Fire: a race that couldn't be won

Rothermel
The Mann Gulch fire, which overran 16 firefighters in 1949, is analyzed to show its probable movement with respect to the crew. The firefighters were smoke-jumpers who had parachuted near the fire on August 5, 1949. While they were moving to a safer location, the fire blocked…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Equations and FORTRAN program for the Canadian forest fire weather index system

Van Wagner, Pickett
Improved official equations are presented for the 1984 version of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. The most recent mathematical refinements serve to further rationalize the Fine Fuel Moisture Code and render it more compatible with other developments in the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning of the boreal mixedwood slash in the Ontario Clay Belt Region

McCrae
Results and analysis of an experimental burning study on the fire behavior in boreal mixedwood slash in the northern Ontario's Clay Belt Region are presented. Horizontal discontinuity in this fuel type makes fire spread difficult when the fire danger rating is low to moderate.…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The use of fractal dimension to improve wildland fire perimeter predictions

McAlpine, Wotton
Fire managers currently use simple elliptical models to predict the perimeter of a fire when the fire starts from a single point. However, when examined closely wildland fire perimeters are highly irregular. We tested the hypothesis that a fire is actually fractal in nature and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Low-level weather conditions preceding major wildfires

Brotak
Knowledge of fire behavior is critical for those who control wildfires. Fire managers must know spread rates and intensity-not just to eventually contain and extinguish the fire but also to keep their fire control personnel safe. Managers realize that weather is paramount in…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning of ponderosa pine red slash on the Gila National Forest

Orozco, Carrillo
Traditionally, in the Southwest, ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) red slash has not been treated with fire to meet resource objectives until all slash has fully cured, usually a 2-to-4-year wait. Waiting for slash to cure is still the widespread practice on most forests in the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS