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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

Type

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

Wildland fire and weather information data warehouse

Bunton
The USDA Forest Service stores fire occurrence data in a relational data base for planning, analysis, and other purposes. Weather observations are stored in the same data base for all five federal land management agencies and some state wildland agencies. Ready access to fire…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The great western wildfires: predicting the future by looking at the past

Rothermel
From the text ... 'It should be clear to everyone concerned that weather conditions and the availability of fuel largely control the behavior of fires. Since projections of actual fire growth depend on weather forecasts, and the weather beyond three to five days is highly…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mapping burned areas and estimating fire emissions over the Canadian boreal forest

Li, Jin, Fraser
A comprehensive investigation of Canadian boreal forest fires was conducted using NOAA-AVHRR imagery. Algorithms were developed to (1) detect active forest fires, (2) map burned areas on daily and annual basis, and (3) estimate fire emissions based on burned area and Canadian…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effect of thinning and prescribed burning on wildfire severity in ponderosa pine forests

Pollet, Omi
From the Management Implications (p.139-140)... 'Our findings indicate that fuel treatments do mitigate fire severity. Treatments provide a window of opportunity for effective fire suppression and protecting high-value areas. Although topography and weather may play a more…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The chemistry of fire and smoke: the composition, amount, and fate of smoke from residual smoldering combustion [abstract]

Yokelson, Goode, Ward, Baker, Susott, Hao
Smoke may present the most intractable barrier of all to implementing more enlightened fire management. The benefits of a prescribed fire program can only be realized if the public and regulatory agencies agree that the air quality impacts are acceptable. Currently, land…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Using computer simulations to study complex fire behavior [abstract]

Linn
Researchers have been using models to predict and study wildfire behavior for approximately fifty years. These models range in complexity from simple algebraic models that may be implemented in graphical form or on hand-held calculators to complex formulations that are…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS