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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Mounting the Attack on Wildfire

"Mounting the Attack on Wildfire" is a 18-minute video produced in 1987 by the Canadian Forest Service that offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project conducted with the Alberta Forest Service at Big Fish Lake in north-central Alberta during the mid to…
Year: 1987
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Mosses in North American grassland and savanna [abstract]

Christy
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

How to manage small prairie fires [abstract]

Pauly
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Some generalizing ideas about colonization and succession in green plants and fungi

Grubb
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and survival traits of plants

Trabaud
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Burning - always necessary, always best?

Voight
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicted residues and fire behavior in small-stem lodgepole pine stands

Brown, Johnston
Fuel loading, fireline intensity, and expected fire size were determined after harvesting small-stem lodgepole pine stands. Curves relating predicted fireline intensity to slash fuel loading and windspeed are presented. Removing about 15 tons per acre of residues reduced…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Linking fire behavior to its effects on living plant tissue

Wade
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A comparison of procedures to estimate fine dead fuel moisture for fire behaviour predictions

Burgan
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Analysis of the behavior and associated weather for a northwestern Ontario wildfire: Red Lake #7

Stocks, Flannigan
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bushfire hydrology--the case of the leaking watersheds

Daniell, Kulik
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine and subalpine fir seed germination success on ashbed conditions

Woodard, Cummins
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Selected parameters of Pinus banksiana Lamb. regeneration in Eastern Ontario

Weber, Hummel, Van Wagner
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Parasites, lightning, and the vegetation mosaic in wilderness landscapes

Knight
From the Introduction ... 'The vegetation mosaic in any landscape is a function of environmental variation and historic disturbances, whether caused by humans or other factors. Many studies have focused on species composition in relation to environmental gradients, and secondary…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A downslope fire spread correction factor based on landscape-scale fire behaviour

Sullivan, Sharples, Matthews, Plucinski
There is currently no fundamental understanding of the effects of topography on the behaviour of fires burning over a landscape. While a number of empirical models are employed operationally around the world, the effects of negative slopes on fire spread are ignored in all but…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Large eddy simulation of forest canopy flow for wildland fire modeling

Mueller, Mell, Simeoni
Large eddy simulation (LES) based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulators have obtained increasing attention in the wildland fire research community, as these tools allow the inclusion of important driving physics. However, due to the complexity of the models, individual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mathematical model and sensor development for measuring energy transfer from wildland fires

Sullivan, McDonald
Current practices for measuring high heat flux in scenarios such as wildland forest fires use expensive, thermopile-based sensors, coupled with mathematical models based on a semi-infinite-length scale. Although these sensors are acceptable for experimental testing in…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Temperate and boreal forest mega-fires: characteristics and challenges

Stephens, Burrows, Buyantuyev, Gray, Keane, Kubian, Liu, Seijo, Shu, Tolhurst, van Wagtendonk
Mega-fires are often defined according to their size and intensity but are more accurately described by their socioeconomic impacts. Three factors -- climate change, fire exclusion, and antecedent disturbance, collectively referred to as the 'mega-fire triangle' -- likely…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Special issue on wildland fires

Preisler
From the text ... 'In this special issue, we present a collection of papers that tackle some of the statistical issues concerned with characterizing wildfires and wildfire risk. These range from the issue of predicting locations and sizes of wildland fires at a landscape level…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The sensitivity of global wildfires to simulated past, present, and future lightning frequency

Krause, Kloster, Wilkenskjeld, Paeth
In this study, components of the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model were used to explore how changes in lightning induced by climate change alter wildfire activity. To investigate how climate change alters global flash frequency, simulations with the atmospheric general…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire on Earth: an introduction [book review]

Kobziar
From the text ... 'Fire on Earth: An Introduction's four sections are intended to stand alone, yet motivate intratext interest. References to other sections appear organically throughout, and invite bouts of rapid page-turning. In the preface, the authors also prepare the reader…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Infiltration of water and ethanol solutions in water repellent post wildfire soils

Beatty, Smith
Dynamic soil water repellency is a pending challenge in water repellency research. The dynamic change or temporal dependence of repellency is commonly expressed as the persistence of repellency. Persistence, or dynamic changes in contact angle, are however, difficult to directly…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

New and revised fire effects tools for fire management

Keane, Dillon, Drury, Innes, Morgan, Lutes, Prichard, Smith, Strand
From the introduction ... 'Announcing the release of new software packages for application in wildland fire science and management, two fields that are already fully saturated with computer technology, may seem a bit too much to many managers. However, there have been some…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Operational prediction of crown fire behavior

Cruz, Alexander
From the text ... 'Operational guides for predicting various aspects of wildland fire behavior, including crowning, are generally dependent on mathematical models that can take a variety of forms. The degree of accuracy in predictions of crown fire behavior is dependent on the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Toward improving our application and understanding of crown fire behavior

Alexander, Cruz, Vaillant
From the text ... 'Wildland fire research has done much to contribute to our current understanding of the behavior of crowning forest fires through laboratory experiments, outdoor experimental burning, numerical modeling, and wildfire case histories. Presumably, the future holds…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS