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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Wildland fire management aerial application study; final report; October 17, 2005

Listed below is a summary of finding and comments based on lessons learned as this study was conducted. 1. Fixed-wing Type 1 and 2 airtankers are justified as an integral component of the initial attack resources for land management agencies. 2. Due to differences in speed, tank…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Revised marsh funnel calibrations for measuring fire retardant viscosity

George, Johnson
Updates data (Research Note INT-91) for measuring viscosity of fire retardants in the field by means of the Marsh Funnel. New data cover Tenogum and gum-thickened Fire-Trol 931. Data for Gelgard (no longer available) have been dropped.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Airtanker flight distance between fires: random fire starts on line segments

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

Forest fire retardant research - a status report

George, Blakely, Johnson
Forest fire retardant research was divided into five different study areas: (1) retardant effectiveness; (2) retardant physical properties; (3) retardant delivery systems; (4) retardant-caused corrosion; and 5) retardant environmental impact. Past research is reviewed for each…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Air tanker performance guide: general instruction manual

Swanson, George, Luedecke
This manual and user guide for individual tanker aircraft is intended to: 1) introduce a basis for systematic planning so that specific air tankers can be employed in the most effective manner based on their inherent capabilities or limitations and the local fire/fuel situation…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES