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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hawkes, Lawson
Fuel complexes resulting from power-saw spacing in young coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine stands were quantitatively assessed for loading and duration of hazard. Fuel appraisal data were combined with fire weather regimes to derive fire behavior predictions for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cushwa
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the text ... 'This paper is an attempt to bring about a better ecological understanding of lightning and lightning fires, as they concern living organsms and their habitat. The comprehension of these forces is difficult because of their great variability....'From the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright, Beall
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradshaw, Fischer
[no description entered]
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clifton, Hill
Nighttime observations of lightning were conducted using a low-light-level television system at the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research in New Mexico. The number of strokes per flash, the interstroke intervals, and flash durations of cloud-to-ground activity were…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
This report provides interim fuel consumption guidelines for five common slash fuel complexes found in Ontario. Slash fuel consumption and depth of burn were found to be related to preburn fuel. loadings, and to fire weather as expressed by the Buildup Index (BUI), a component…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner
This note outlines the objectives and problems of prescribed burning as a tool of forest management. The importance of a number of weather factors is discussed and suggestions are presented for provision of effective weather guidance to forest officers concerned with this…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuquay
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
Every wildland fire control organization in North America relies on assistance from outside agencies during periods of extreme fire severity.In some cases interagency cooperation is formalized, as in the Northeast Forest Fire Compact or the Boise Interagency Fire Center. In…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mollner, Olsen
The Automated Fire Weather Forecast (AFWF) is a computer program designed to forecast seven of the eight fire weather forecast parameters issued daily during the fire weather season at the Boise Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO). The program uses Limited Fine Mesh (LFM)…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Johnston
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis
Game theory and decision theory could help a fireboss evaluate strategies to use in forest fire control. This paper describes several types of matrix games, subjective utility, and various criteria for strategy selection. It shows, in scenario forms, how decision theory might be…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Breuer
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey, Anderson
Soil surface temperatures averaged 186, 398 and 393 C for grass, shrub and forest communities, respectively. Higher temperatures were associated with head fires, more fuel and with woody fuels. Temperatures in headfires were higher but more variable than in backfires for the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murray, Countryman
Heat-resistant anemometers have been developed for measuring horizontal and vertical air flow in fire behavior studies. The anemometers will continue to produce data as long as the anemometer body is less than 650°F. They can survive brief immersion in flame without major…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuquay
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) (Deeming and others 1972) has been updated; the revised system will be in use in l978 (Deeming and others 1977). One of the changes in the NFDRS is treatment of lightning-caused fires. A model based on physical and stochastic…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bradshaw, Fischer
Describes a user-oriented computer system that allows fire managers to analyze climatological data for the purpose of predicting the probable occurrence of desired prescribed fire conditions. Provides instruction for use of the system and documents all programs. A computer…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helfman, Straub, Deeming
This User's Guide is a comprehensive manual for persons accessing the 1978 version of National Fire Danger Rating System on AFFIRMS. AFFIRMS, the Administrative and Forest Fire Information Retrieval and Management System is a user-oriented, interactive computer program. Weather…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baughman, Albini
Wind is one of the major factors involved in predicting forest fire behavior. Fire behavior models require wind information to predict fire spread in various fuel types and within forest stands in complex terrain. The means of providing the necessary wind data in remote areas,…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Luti
This paper describes a finite difference experiment to simulate the transient development of the convection column above a strip of uniform high temperature source in a stratified uniform cross flow atmosphere. The κ-ε model of turbulence is used and an upstream weighted scheme…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES