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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Anderson
The Sundance Fire and its impressive run were not due to any new phenomena but the combination of several important factors. Extremely dry fuels and favourable weather conditions existed at the time; the atmospheric winds increased steadily thorughout the day, and the fire did…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Khan, Laude
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett, Barghoorn, Berger
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
Foliar moisture content was sampled in five eastern Canadian conifers and two hardwoods during 1962-65, and seasonal trends were established. These were basically similar from year to year despite weather differences. The moisture content of new conifer foliage and hardwood…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beaufait, Fischer
Fire managers require 24-hour records of temperature, relative humidity, and windspeed to use fire efficiently and effectively. When carefully calibrated and interpreted, modified hygrothermographs provide minimum instrumentation to obtain these records. An actual case of record…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Philpot
Diethyl ether and acetone were used to reduce the extractive content of aspen leaves. The leaves were burned in 0.5-ft^2 baskets and the weight loss rate was recorded. A direct relationship between extractive content and burning rate was found. This relationship emphasizes the…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Hardy
This Note published data on flame retardants in use at the time.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Hellman
A combined theoretical and experimental study has been performed of the behaviour of firebrands in a turbulent, swirling natural convection plume. For the theoretical treatment, firebrands were idealized as spheres of constant density, the burning rate a constant for each type…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Emmons, Ying
A fire whirl from a liquid-fuel pool (acetone) is formed at the center of a rotating screen which imparts a controlled angular momentum to the ambient air. Measurements show that outside of the core the fluid motion is that of a free vortex. A hot-wire method of measurement of…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder
A number of studies have been made over the years in an attempt to relate pertinent weather factors (including fuel moisture) to fire occurrence. Generally, regression analyses were used. In such studies, all of the many factors that affect ignition of wildfires are necessarily…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Storey, Carder, Tolin
INFORMAP (Information Necessary for Optimum Resource Management and Protection) is a computerized system under development for storing, manipulating, retrieving, and displaying data for fire planning and fire control. A prototype for planning applications has been developed and…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rios, Welker, Sliepcevich
In the past, the authors and their colleagues have studied the effects of wind-blown flames involving burning gases and liquid pool fires. It would seem logical to conduct a similar study with solid fuels. This the authors have done, and they report their observations here.
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Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson
Experimental testing of a mathematical model showed that radiant heat transfer accounted for no more than 40% of total heat flux required to maintain rate of spread. A reasonable prediction of spread was possible by assuming a horizontal convective heat transfer coefficient when…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Main
This paper describes a computer program that calculates National Fire Danger Rating Indexes. fuel moisture, buildup index, and drying factor are also available. The program is written in FORTRAN and is usable on even the smallest compiler.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, Beaufait, Norum
Conventional hygrothermographs can be modified as described here to record windspeed along with temperature and relative humidity. The fire-weather record resulting from the modification has several fire management applications, as demonstrated in field use.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
[no description entered]
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anonymous
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Montgomery, Cheo
The burning characteristics of several fire-retardant plants and Southern California chaparral shrubs of recognized high flammability were compared in muffle-furnance tests at 650 C. Fresh terminal growth of Atriplex lentiformis did not burn as readily as comparable material of…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gerstle, Kemnitz
Emission data have been derived from the simulated open burning of municipal refuse, landscape refuse, and automobile components. The data confirm that disposal of refuse by open, uncontrolled burning invariably leads to higher emissions than incineration and creates an…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil, Grigel
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
Fine-fuel moisture content tables, using dry bulb and dewpoint temperatures as entry data, have been developed for use with the National Fire-Danger Rating System in Alaska. Comparisons have been made which illustrate differences resulting from danger-rating calculations based…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johansen
A method for testing the effectiveness of fire-retardant chemicals on woody fuels has been developed. The test involves the use of a preconstructed wood crib, one-half of which is treated with a fire retardant. The speed with flames pass through the treated portion of the crib…
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Werner
Sitka spruce produces twice as many needles per linear inch of twig as western hemlock. Defoliation by the black-headed budworm is more severe on hemlock than spruce because of differences in the phenological development of the hosts and in the feeding behavior of first- and…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES