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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Prentice
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vines
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

McCutchan
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Riedman
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Brotak, Reifsnyder
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Episode 3 of the Fire Danger Learning System describes the dataflow of weather data into the various databases and processors that provide fire danger calculations for the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Barrett, Loboda, McGuire, Genet, Hoy, Kasischke
Wildfire, a dominant disturbance in boreal forests, is highly variable in occurrence and behavior at multiple spatiotemporal scales. New data sets provide more detailed spatial and temporal observations of active fires and the post-burn environment in Alaska. In this study, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hayasaka, Tanaka, Bieniek
Recent concurrent widespread fires in Alaska are evaluated to assess their associated synoptic-scale weather conditions. Several periods of high fire activity from 2003 to 2015 were identified using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) hotspot data by…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A pictorial poster showing many cloud formations and what these clouds mean in regards to fire weather and fire behavior.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ziel, Kurth, Saperstein
Webinar with Robert (Zeke) Ziel, Laurie Kurth, and Lisa Saperstein. Organized by the Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee. Recorded on May 24, 2016. Robert (Zeke) Ziel: Using FFMC and DMC to assess fuel moisture and use of BUI to help adjust ERC values Laurie Kurth: Some…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Alden, Strader, Ziel
Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review | Wedresday, October 12, 2016Presenter: Heidi Strader and Robert Ziel, with input from Sharon Alden
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Saltenberger
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: John Saltenberger
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

The Wildland Fire Library is a collection of long-term assessments, fire progressions, fire behavior reports, and other documents and resources to support fire modeling and assessment of long-duration fires. Each file is tied to some event with a location, a start date, and…
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES

Van Wagner
A method is presented for computing fine fuel moisture content at hourly intervals around the clock. It is derived from the standard daily Fine Fuel Moisture Code used in the Canadian system of forest fire danger rating. It produces diurnal cycles of fuel moisture content that…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Chandler
No abstract
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wilson
From the text... 'The data in these tables and in the two additional tables listing "near-fatal” fires (Tables 3 and 4) help demystify these related fire types. It is possible to identify some common denominators of fire behavior in both fatal and near-fatal fires. It should be…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

MacPherson, Isaac
The turbulent characteristics of 17 Canadian cumulus clouds have been documented using the measurements from a specially instrumented T-33 aircraft. Most of the 33 cloud penetrations were made through the tops of cumuli 1—4.5 km in depth. Turbulent energy spectra over a range of…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Isaac, Schemenauer, Crozier, Chisholm, MacPherson, Bobbitt, MacHattie
A cloud seeding technique is proposed which has the objective of stimulating rainfall from cumulus clouds drifting over forest fires. Preliminary tests of the ice crystal production capability of the cloud seeding technique were conducted on five cumulus clouds near Yellowknife…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hartigan
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dorrer
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Burgan, Cohen, Deeming
This publication contains instructions for manually calculating the indexes and components of the 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS). The procedures are explained with worked examples. Working sets of nomograms for the 20 NFDRS fuel models are not included. However…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fosberg
A procedure for forecasting the 10-hour timelag fuel moisture was developed from the theory of diffusion in wood. Studies of fuel moisture processes relating meteorological variables, as an external force, to moisture exchange processes in wood are combined here to provide a…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Deeming, Burgan, Cohen
The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) updates the danger rating system developed in the early 1970's and published by Deeming and others in 1972. Numerous changes have been made to correct deficiencies and to incorporate new technology. The most significant of the…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Moussa, Trischka, Eskinazi
In the mixing of a jet with a cross-stream, it is found that in the near field, defined as the region of the flow from the jet exit to a distance of a few diameters downstream of this exit, a considerable amount of dynamical adjustment takes place. This near-field region…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Belval, Wei, Bevers
Wildfire behavior is a complex and stochastic phenomenon that can present unique tactical management challenges. This paper investigates a multistage stochastic mixed integer program with full recourse to model spatially explicit fire behavior and to select suppression locations…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS