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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wotton, McAlpine, Hobbs
To determine the effect of fire front width on surface fire spread rates, a series of simultaneously ignited experimental fires was carried out in a pine plantation. Fires were ignited in plots with widths ranging from 0.5 m to 10 m and were burned in low wind conditions. Flame…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Handbook for criteria pollutant inventory development: a beginner's guide for point and area sources
This document will help state, local, and tribal air pollution control agency personnel compile an inventory of criteria pollutant emissions from stationary (point and area) sources. The information contained in this document is intended to serve as a reference guide only, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel, Anderson
Fuel beds of ponderosa pine needles and white pine needles were burned under controlled environmental conditions to determine the effects of fuel moisture and windspeed upon the rate of fire spread. Empirical formulas are presented to show the effect of these parameters. A…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Hardy
This paper describes modifications necessary to make a Marsh Funnel suitable for measuring viscosities of chemical fire retardants in the field.
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larsen
None available
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Revegetation with native species: proceedings, 1997 Society of Ecological Restoration annual meeting
The seven papers in this proceedings address the current state of knowledge and application of ecological restoration in the Western United States. They provide an overview of: rangeland revegetation lessons as they apply to ecological restoration today; USDI National Park…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goode, Yokelson, Susott, Ward
The trace gas emissions from six biomass fires, including three grass fires, were measured using a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer coupled to an open-path, multipass cell (OP-FTIR). The quantified emissions consisted of carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, water vapor,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala
Resource managers are frequently concerned that the area burned by wildfire over time will impede achievement of land management objectives. Methods that use the Poisson probability model to quantify that risk are described. The methods require a concise statement of an adverse…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala
A mathematical optimization model, based on the operations research technique of deterministic dynamic programming, is offered as a method to search quickly through available options to find the economically efficient set of initial attack resources to suppress a wildfire.…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide will help you translate the complicated scientific and technical information generated at CDC into material that captures and keeps the interest of your intended readers. It will teach you how to write simply, use language and visuals that your audience relates to and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 'public' are all the stakeholders in the resource-planning area. The public includes those who serve on the Planning Committee, and those who are not actively involved in the planning process. This fact sheet focuses on noncommittee members of the public, and ways that…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder, Chandler
From tabulated frequency distributions of fire danger indexes for a nationwide network of 89 stations, the probabilities of four types of fire behavior ranging from 'fire out' to 'critical' were calculated for each month and are shown in map form.
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trelles, McGrattan, Baum
The effect that the wind's vertical variation has on fire plume behaviour is investigated. A parabolized set of governing equations are discretized using finite differences to arrive at the numerical model. Lagrangian particles are used to visualize the flow, account for…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morton
A short session on vortices in the atmosphere and other rotating systems was included in the I.U.T.A.M. Symposium on Concentrated Vortex Motions in Fluids held at Ann Arbor. During this session it appeared that fluid dynamicists were interested in the behaviour of tornadoes,…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Welker, Sliepcevich
The bending of a flame by wind influences the amount of heat transferred by radiation and convection, the fuel burning rate, and the flame spread rate. To what extent will a flame be bent by wind? The author presents correlations of data taken from liquid pool fires, which…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pryor, Yuill
A program was undertaken to define the life hazard in a mass fire environment resulting from nuclear attack. The nature of casualties and hazards in peacetime and wartime fires was reviewed, and experimental efforts to simulate mass fire situations were studied. This state-of-…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hull, O'Dell, Schroeder
Weather is one of the dominant factors responsible for uncontrollable spread of mass fires in both urban and rural areas. Identification of the weather types causing critical burning conditions in 14 contiguous regions of the United States was the subject of the previous report…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jackson, Adams, Jackson
In a simulation model, the relative advantage of negative versus positive allometry of defense, that is, early versus delayed defensive investment, depends on the forms of the relationships between body size and growth, body size and mortality deterrence, and defense size and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Leighty, Blume
Current information is presented detailing the interagency fire management planning efforts between the Bureau of Land Management's Grand Junction District and the USDA Forest Service's White River National Forest. The project is based on interdisciplinary input from an…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slaughter
Flexibility in the Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan allowed for varied responses to three Modified fires, all located within 15 miles of Bettles, Alaska. Discussions with land managers about values at risk, potential cost, probability of success, fuels, and fire behavior…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mangan
Standardizing equipment and clothing can reduce the costs of fighting wildfires by allowing items to be purchased in large quantities. In the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, equipment is developed at two Technology and Development Centers, one in Missoula,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cleaves, Haines, Martínez
The results of a survey from 1985 to 1994 of the USDA Forest Service's National Forest System prescribed burning activity and costs are examined. Fuels management officers from 95 National Forests reported costs and acreage burned for 4 types of prescribed fire, including slash…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Loomis, Omi
The increased importance of non-market values in land management planning means that fire management and planning needs to more directly and effectively incorporate them into the planning and decision-making process. This means developing better understanding of the role of non-…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Understanding how ignitions occur is critical for effectively mitigating home fire losses during wildland fires. The threat of life and property losses during wildland fires is a significant issue for Federal, State, and local agencies that have responsibilities involving homes…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Rideout
Evolving wildfire management policies are aimed at more comprehensive treatments of current wildland fire management problems. Key policies are identified that affect wildfire and fuels management. Policies are discussed in the context of institutional factors such as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES