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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Predicting slash depth for fire modeling

Albini, Brown
Development of equations for prediciting fuel bed depth (called 'bulk depth' herein) appropriate for modeling fire behavior in slash is described. Bulk depth (y) was correlated with the expected number of 1/4-to 1-inch-diameter particle intercepts per foot of vertical plane…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Porosity of cheatgrass fuel related to weight

Brown
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Estimating fuel weights of black spruce and alpine fir crowns in Alberta

Kiil
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Coagulation of soot to smoke in hydrocarbon flames

Fenimore, Jones
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Pyrolysis-crystallinity relationships in cellulose

Weinstein, Broido
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weather in wildland fire management: the fire weather index

Fosberg
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Flame spread through randomly packed fuel particles

Fang, Steward
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Study of firebrand trajectories in a turbulent swirling natural convection plume

Lee, Hellman
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire zones on a mountain ridge

Furman
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rates of spread of wildfire in Alaskan fuels

Barney, Noste, Wilson
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

AIRPRO: an air tanker productivity computer simulation model: the equations (summary)

Simard, Young
From the Introduction: 'AIRPRO is a simulation model designed for computer implementation. Its purpose is to simulate the use of air tankers in wildland fire suppression operations. The model can be used to analyze a wide variety of questions with respect to air tanker systems,…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

AIRPRO: an air tanker productivity computer simulation model: application

Simard, Young, Redmond
This report discusses the application of results generated by AIRPRO to specific air tanker problems in the Province of New Brunswick. First, the fire environment of the province is described, followed by an overview of the current air tanker system. The effectiveness of the S2D…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Combined effect of sun and wind on surface temperature of litter

Van Wagner
From the text:'This article reports a laboratory attempt to measure the combined effects of sun and wind on surface temperature, and to test the form that a predictive equation should take. The general approach was suggested by some previous research on this question, which is…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Informap...a computerized information system for fire planning and fire control

Storey, Carder, Tolin, Storey, Carder, Tolin
From the text:'This paper compares INFROMAP with other information assembly and display systems, describes the concept and basic charcteristics of the system, explains how it may be used in fire planning and fire control, and considers the outlook for its future developement.'
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Equilibrium and actual evapotranspiration from a very dry vegetated surface

Williams, Broersma, Van Ryswyk
Energy balance measurements of evapotranspiration from very dry seeded rangeland grass (Agropyron desertorum) near Kamloops, British Columbia, are compared with daily equilibrium evapotranspiration estimates. The equilibrium model was found to seriously overestimate…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The use of historical fire weather data for prescribed burn planning

Martell
An interactive computer program that can be used to analyse historical fire weather data and determine how frequently specific prescribed burn fire weather prescriptions have occured in the past is described. The Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada.…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Note on the use of Weibull statistics to characterize wind-speed data

Takle, Brown
A hybrid density function is given for describing wind-speed distributions having nonzero probability of "calm.” A Weibull probability graph paper designed specifically for plotting wind-speed distributions is used to determine distribution parameters to within a few percent of…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Airpro, An air tanker productivity computer simulation model, validation

Simard, Young, Redmond
This report describes procedures used to validate AIRPRO - an air tanker productivity computer simulation model. It begins by discussing the general concept of validation and listing specific producedures that can be used to test models. The supportive components of AIRPRO are…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting ignition of forest fuels by lightning

Fuquay
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Containment tables for initial attack on forest fires

Bratten
Long-range planning of forest fire initial attack systems requires a method for evaluation of force effectiveness against an assumed pattern of fire occurrence on the planning unit.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Airpro, An air tanker productivity computer simulation model, Air tanker systems

Simard
This report examines air tankers from a systems point of view. The discussion begins by describing the fire control environment. Fire suppression is discussed from the resource management viewpoint. Emphasis then shifts to identifying the structure, components, resources, work…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biophysics of a natural grassland: evaporation

Ripley, Saugier
(1) Microclimatic maesurements and flux determinations were made on natural Agropyron-Koeleria grassland during two growing seasons. (2) The calculated evaluation fluxes were analyzed in terms of the potential evaporation, soil moisture content, and plant water potential. The…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The relevance of current hazard stick reading to the moisture content of logging slash

Pech
Seven composite samples of western red cedar and western hemlock logging slash of 0.25 to 2 inches diameter were exposed on top of and within the bottom third of a fuel bed in the interior wet belt of British Columbia in August 1965. Their moisture contents were measured…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An application of Landsat digital technology to forest fire fuel type mapping

Kourtz
Economic limitations prevent the mapping over of large areas of forest fire fuel types using conventional forestry methods. The information contained in such maps would be a valuable tool for assisiting in initial attack planning, presuppression planning and fire growth…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fuel burning rates of downward versus horizontally spreading fires

Frandsen, Schuette
Maximum load-loss rate within the combustion zone of a vertically (downward) spreading fire was obtained for excelsior (0.07 cm in cross-section) at bulk densities from 0.0016 to 0.026 g/cm. Fuel was contained within a continuously weighed circular wire mesh basket 1 ft (929 cm…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS