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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Connell, Slatyer
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Levitt
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Odum, Odum
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
May, MacArthur
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kanury
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnston
[no description entered]
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak, Reifsnyder
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Young
'The Forest Fire Research Institute has been studying the use of air tankers in fire control for several years. The most recent project involves the development of a computer simulation model to determine air tanker productivity (Simard, 1975). As part of that project, an…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Young, Redmond
From the text: 'This report summarizes AIRPRO. Its purpose is to give the reader a general impression of what the program does. Detailed documentation is not being generally distributed because 1) the cost of printing a large number of copies would be prohibitive, and 2) it is…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
Some basic concepts from the general theory of systems are presented. Six characteristics common to all systems (components, structure, resources, process, control, and objectives)are disussed and related to a fire management context. Wildland fire mangement is examined from a…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Wagner
From the introduction ... 'In this paper a detailed, general review of the toxic species evolved over a wide range of conditions is given, along with an outline of the physiological responses to the common fire gases and liquids. Published reviews appear to be few1-3; for the…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler
No abstract
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harmathy
This is the first part of a two-part paper which the author has endeavored to present all available information on compartment fires in a consistent theoretical framework. This well-documented review of the state of the art should serve as a valuable reference for researchers…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harmanty
This is the second part of a two-part paper in which the author has endeavored to present all available informtion on compartment fires in a consistent theoretical framework. This well-documented review of the state of the art should serve a valuable reference for reseachers for…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weatherhead
The goal of this study was to develop a decisionmaking tool or modei to be used during timber sale preparation for identifying and evaluating feasible slash treatment alternatives for any set of sale conditions. The goal included four specific objectives: (1) a technique to…
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
Deardorff
A rate equation for soil-surface moisture fraction is developed which makes use of the more customary bulk soil moisture content, as well as the soil-surface evaporation rate minus precipitation rate. The two empirical constants involved are estimated from soil measurements of…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz
Economic limitations prevent the mapping over large areas of forest fire fuel types using conventional forestry methods. The information contained in such maps would be a valuable tool for assisting in initial attack planning, presuppression planning and fire growth modelling.…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kelley, Frickel
The computed spatial dependence of graybody radiation from a specific cone shape, representative of small fires, showed the greatest radiation intensity directly above the cone. The inverse square law was accurate beyond a distance of three times the maximum cone dimension.…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dorrer
[no description entered]
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
Deeming, Lancaster, Fosberg, Furman, Schroeder
The National Fire-Danger Rating (NFDR) System produces three indexes-Occurrence, Burning, and Fire Load-that measure relative fire potentials. These indexes are derived from the fire behavior components-Spread, Energy Release, and Ignition-plus a consideration of Risk. Three…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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