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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Raphael
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
This manual documents the procedures for estimating the rate of forward spread, intensity, flame length, and size of fires burning in forests and rangelands. It contains instructions for obtaining fuel and weather data, calculating fire behavior, and interpreting the results for…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Seaver, Roussopoulos, Freeling
A preliminary decision analysis model addressing the choice among alternative suppression strategies on escaped wildfires is presented. A case study application of the model, in the context of an Escaped Fire Situation Analysis on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, is…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
Equations are presented by which to calculate the maximum firebrand particle lofting height from wind-driven line fires in surface fuels. Variables used are the fuel type, described as one of twelve stylized models used for fire behavior prediction, the fire intensity, and the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
Documents the analysis of wind tunnel experiments on fire spread that produced a double ellipse concept of fire area growth. This provides ways of estimating size (area), shape (perimeter), and length to width ratio of a wind-driven wild land fire. The only inputs needed are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larson, Minor
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cawker
Recent vegetation change in the grasslands of southern British Columbia is examined using pollen analysis, and the results are compared with documentary records. The increasing dominance of the grasslands after 1890 by Artemisia tridentata and other woody shrubs has often been…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mills
From the card:'The analysis of alternative fire management programs should be integrated into the land and resource management planning process, but a single fire management analysis model cannot meet all planning needs. Therefore, a set of simulation models that are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radloff, Yancik
From the text:'This paper desribes two generalized decision models that partically characterize decision processes for the evaluation and execution of prescribed fires. Although the two models do not incorporate all the factors managers must consider in planning for prescribed…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norum
Factors for adjusting wind velocities from the 20-foot standard anemometer height down to an average wildfire midflame height (3.5 ft. for the fuels studied) are given for exposed, partially sheltered, and sheltered fuels in Alaska. The values are suitable for predicting…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brandel, Omi
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
The use of existing fire weather history from computerized data storage libraries, in conjunction with fire use programs and routines, allows the fire planner to develop realistic prescription limits, especially when the use of unplanned ignitions is directed. The integration of…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Malm
Goals and objectives outlined in the Clean Air Act of 1977 are in conflict with land management practices that utilize control or prescribed burns to maintain a healthy ecosystem. Specifically, smoke emissions from burn areas can significantly and adversely affect the visual air…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marsden
Polychotomous response data occur in the study of forest fire effects and in other forestry sciences. The response can be represented by the joint occurance of several dichotomous responses. When it is reasonable to represent the polychotomous response in this way, the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lopoukhine, White
Fire management in Canada's national parks is facing other alternatives besides traditional suppression. The 1979 Parks Canada Policy permits a full range of options while the Natural Resources Management Process (NRMP) provides the framework by which specific options will be…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rustagi
Some simple steps are offered in the calculation of smple size in simple random sampling and two brief examples presented. © Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, MD. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster
The fire history of the wilderness of southeastern Labrador is marked by a patchy distribution of large fires in time and space. During the 110-year period encompassed by this study, major fires occurred in four decades, 1870-1879, 1890-1899, 1950-1959, 1970-1979. From 1900 to…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flinn, Pringle
Rhizomes of eight understory species were subjected to treatments of 45, 50, 55 and 60 degrees for 5 min in a water bath. Selecton of thesespecies for study was based on differences in the depth of the rhizomes, in habitat, and in rhizome morphology. Samples were collected from…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delisle, Dube
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grant
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Eaton, Wendler
The high variablility of burning conditions and fuels, found in Alaskan forest fires, produces an associated complex emission of particulate matter. Histological evidence of some large particles has been found in the forest fire plumes as well as aerosols resulting apparently…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clements, Ward, Adkins
Photography is practical for recording and measuring some aspects of forest fire behavior if the scale and perspective can be determined. This paper describes a photogrammetric method for measuring flame height and rate of spread for fires on flat terrain. The flames are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harrington
In the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS), a correction is added to fuel moisture stick values to offset weathering effects. This correction is now being adjusted to compensate for different weathering rates in different climates. The corrections for NFDRS climate class…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS