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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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, 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
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
Williams
Urban and wildland fire phenomenology - no preview available.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Wildland fire involves both chemical and physical processes. In the burning of wildland fuel burns, their stored chemical energy is converted to thermal energy or heat through a series of complex chemical reactions. But for the combustion process to be started, heat must be…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Heat transfer is of paramount importance in wildland fire behavior and control. For a fire to start, heat must be transferred from a firebrand to the fuel. If the fire is to continue to burn and spread, heat must be transferred to the unburned fuel around the fire. And…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Three ingredients are essential for a wildland fire to start and to burn. First, there must be burnable fuel available. Then enough heat must be applied to the fuel to raise its temperature to the ignition point. And finally, there must be enough air to supply oxygen needed to…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The symposium, held at San Diego State University, provided information about the Mediterranean-type ecosystems found throughout the world. In the papers, and in brief summaries of poster displays, both researchers and managers addressed concerns relating to vegetation, fauna,…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
[Excerpted from text] As interest in the prediction of actual fire spread rate increases, some way of accounting for the effect of slope desirable. The literature contains a few references on this question, and five of these are compared here.
[This publication is referenced in…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moussa, Trischka, Eskinazi
In the mixing of a jet with a cross-stream, it is found that in the near field, defined as the region of the flow from the jet exit to a distance of a few diameters downstream of this exit, a considerable amount of dynamical adjustment takes place. This near-field region…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines
Observational evidence from nine crown fires suggests that horizontal roll vortices are a major mechanism in crown-fire spread. Post-burn aerial photography indicates that unburned tree-crown streets are common with crown fire. Investigation of the understory of these crown…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Emori, Saito
The fluid dynamical scaling laws of forest fires are derived by dimensional analysis and a scale model is constructed to investigate a forest fire which seriously injured several fire fighters. The result of the small-scale experiment indicate that a fire whirl could be…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
A speculative, phenomenological model is formulated for the time-varying intensity and spread rate of a free-burning fire under the influence of nonsteady wind. The model is linearized by approximations and explicit solutions derived for the amplitude response of spread rate and…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donoghue
Discusses problems associated with fire-cause data on USDA Forest Service wildfire reports, traces the historical development of wildfire-cause categories, and presents the pros and cons of retaining current wildfire-cause reporting systems or adopting new systems.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Donoghue
Traces the history of USDA Forest Service fire reports, examines the most recent report, Form 5100-29, and discusses the reliability of information recorded on the 5100-29, factors influencing data accuracy, and reactions of the Ranger District personnel to wildfire reporting.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crosby
A set of value concepts and methods for appraising both values-at-risk and change in value resulting from wildfire are presented. Emphasis is placed on the effects of forest fires in terms of their affects on human and organization goal achievement. Fire effects that help…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wykoff, Crookston, Stage
The Inland Empire version of the Prognosis Model, a computer program designed to simulate the development of forest stands, is described. The Inland Empire version is calibrated for eleven tree species occurring on over 30 habitat types. The individual tree is the basic unit of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolff
Description not entered.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baughman, Schmid
The characteristics of 23 cumulus congestus clouds were investigated in interior Alaska during the summer of 1973. Results show Alaskan lightning storms are generally smaller, more isolated, and produce less lightning than western Montana storms. Nine storms produced 123…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adams
The planar intersect technique involves counting or measuring diameters of woody pieces intersected by a vertical plane. It is based on the line intersect technique, which compares length of a given line and the amount of that line crossed by residue pieces. The sum of circular…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt, Rinehart
[From first paragraph] Line production estimating guides are needed for initial action planning and estimating control forces required on project fires. Current methods of predicting fire behavior in these situations use fire behavior models. This article provides line…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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 nomo grams for the 20 NFDRS fuel models are not included. However…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greulich, O'Regan
Fire managers face two interrelated problems in deciding the most efficient use of air tankers: where best to base them, and how best to reallocate them each day in anticipation of fire occurrence. A computerized model based on a mixed integer linear program can help in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parker
Structural/functional characteristics of the vegetative cover are used to provide common attributes for comparing vegetation patterns in Yosemite National Park, California, in the central Sierra Nevada, and Glacier National Park, Montana, in the northern Rocky Mountains.…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beever
Spontaneous ignition resulting from slow oxidation of combustible material can be an industrial fire hazard. The problems are fairly well recognised. This paper describes a simple and powerful test method which can be used to assess the spontaneous ignition hazard of particulate…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS