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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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George
Retardant coverage computers/slide charts have been developed for many aircraft and tank and gating systems in the national airtanker fleet. The computers indicate retardant delivery performance for specific tank and gating systems, and recommend coverage levels for various fuel…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Blakely, Johnson, Simmerman, Johnson
This report summarizes the development, history, and operational use of liquid ammonium phosphate and polyphosphate fire retardants since their first use in the early l960's. Several liquid ammonium polyphosphates were evaluated as long-term forest fire retardants in accordance…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Donovan, Rideout
The Cost plus Net Value Change (C+NVC) model provides the theoretical foundation for wildland fire economics and provides the basis for the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS). The C+NVC model is based on the earlier least Cost plus Loss model (LC+L) expressed by…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Greulich
Under high initial attack fire loads, dispatchers sometimes redirect airtankers that are working on other fires. The inherent variability of flight distance between random fire locations is a potentially important aspect of any model that would reallocate the airtanker resource…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Greulich
Airtankers, while actively engaging in initial attack, are sometimes reassigned and flown directly to another randomly occurring initial attack fire. Airtanker system planning that means to incorporate this fire-to-fire transfer activity needs information about the flight…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Braun, Fouts, Silver, Putnam
The fire shelter is an integral part of wildland firefighting Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). There is growing concern, however, that firefighters may accept greater levels of risk while carrying them. Such concerns are consistent with Risk Homeostasis Theory, which…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rothermel
Aerial ignition devices are being used which can start fires by a succession of point sources or by a line of fire. Through the use of these devices, the fire manager has considerable control of the fire situation. Control of the ultimate fire behavior depends on the ignition…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Winandy, Hunt, Turk, Anderson
Following natural disasters (such as hurricanes, tornados, or tsunamis), when civilians become displaced, or when military troops are deployed overseas, temporary housing is often a critical need. The USDA Forest Products Laboratory recently developed a lightweight,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Minas, Hearne, Handmer
Across the globe, wildfire-related destruction appears to be worsening despite increased fire suppression expenditure. At the same time, wildfire management is becoming increasingly complicated owing to factors such as an expanding wildland-urban interface, interagency resource…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The first fire of the 2010 fire season started on March 24th, in the Mat-Su Area. By the end of April there had been 48 fires. Since records of fires by month specifically started being kept in 1996 at AICC, that number has only been surpassed twice, in 1997, with 67 fires by…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire season officially began on April 1st, and there had been 12 fire numbers issued by that time. The first fire number issued was a False Alarm on February 28th. The first actual fire that received a number was Mat-Su's Mothershead fire (#002) which was a 0.1 acre escaped…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer, Finney, Bradshaw, Stratton
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology has been used to model wind speed and direction in mountainous terrain at a relatively high resolution compared to other readily available technologies. The process termed "gridded wind"; is not a forecast, but rather represents a…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viegas, Pita
Canyons or ridges are associated with a large number of fatal accidents produced during forest fires all over the world. A contribution to the understanding of fire behaviour in these terrain conditions is given in this paper. The basic geometrical parameters of the canyon…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith
Fire management simulation models are used to predict the impact of changes in the fire management program on fire outcomes. As with all models, the goal is to abstract reality without seriously distorting relationships between variables of interest. One important variable of…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
Recent fires have spawned intense interest in fuel treatment and ecological restoration activities. Scientists and land managers have been advocating these activities for years, and the recent fires have provided incentives for federal, state, and local entities to move ahead…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hatfield, Wiitala, Wilson, Levy
An algorithm is described that quickly calculates minimum travel times between locations for initial response forest fire suppression units. The algorithm was developed for integration into wildfire planning simulation models to quickly identify fire suppression units with the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Snyder, Stockmann, Morris
The US Forest Service used contracted helicopter services as part of its wildfire suppression strategy. An optimization decision-modeling system was developed to assist in the contract selection process. Three contract award selection criteria were considered: cost per pound of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Blank, Simard
There are many disadvantages to current techniques for measuring the spread rate of wildland fires. This paper describes the design and use of an electronic timer that resolves most of the problems. The unit is small, lightweight, inexpensive, easy-to-assemble, self-contained,…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Donovan, Rideout
Determining the specific mix of fire-fighting resources for a given fire is a necessary condition for identifying the minimum of the Cost Plus Net Value Change (C+NVC) function. Current wildland fire management models may not reliably do so. The problem of identifying the most…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
ANNOTATION: There is a substantial global need for development of biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts systems and technologies that can economically and sustainably produce short rotation crops across multiple temporal and spatial scales. Topic areas in these proceedings were…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trethewey
A helicopter comparison index was developed to incorporate cost and benefit information for individual helicopters for large wildland fire suppression operations. The costs and benefits for individual helicopters are unique. Costs consist of daily availability and hourly flight…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wiitala
This guide contains instructions for using PROBACRE. PROBACRE is a computer program developed for purposes of assessing the long term risk associated with the level of protection provided to an area. The risk of concern centers on the chance that a protection area over time will…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan, Jones, Krueger, Zuuring, Troutwine
Presents a guide to the operation of MAGIS eXpress, a spatial decision support system. This program spatially schedules treatments and road activities for small landscapes to design vegetation management projects. MAGIS eXpress is designed to install and run on personal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This FIRESTAT User's Guide shows you how to enter Individual Fire Report information using form FS-5100-29 and other sources. It is organized to help you locate and perform specific FIRESTAT functions quickly and easily.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wordell, Carlton
Cheetah 3 (Computerized Harmonic Evaluation of Episodes and Tools for Assessment of Help) was developed to support examination of fire occurrence patterns and fire suppression resource requirements at the National and Geographic Area level. Questions are frequently asked…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES