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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Susott
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Malanson
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Magee, McAlevy
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garg, Steward
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cain
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Douglas
The application of weather modification techniques as a fire control tool was field tested in Alaska during the summers of 1969 and 1970. The 1969 trial was primarily exploratory. Data gathered indicated clouds or cloud-systems exist in interior Alaska which are amenable to…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burrows
BLM Alaska Fire Service agency guide from 1984 detailing the process of preattack planning for wildfire. This historical guide details the process of collecting, evaluating, and recording fire intelligence data for successful decision making in the initial suppression of…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pierovich
Fire management demands that we (1) mke the best use of whatis known to us, (2) add to our knowledge, (3) assess the possibilites andd the probabilities offuture events, (4) obtain meaningful pulic choices.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the text:'The goal of research on the behaviour of forest fires is presumably to be able to predict with reasonable assurance how a fire will behave in any stated weather and forest fuel. This goal does not, of course, have an absolute form since the prediction of forest…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murtha
The purpose of this paper is to discuss why and how the remote sensing photographic approach can be used in the detection and assessment of vegetation damage. The necessary attributes of the interpreter are mentioned, along with the need to clearly define and outline the…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the Final Remarks...'Designing fire prescriptions to meet today's demand for skill and professionalism requires an orderly planning process. At the start of this process, fire objectives must be derived from land managment objectives and specifically stated in terms of what…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Matson, Schneider, Aldridge, Satchwell
This report discusses the potential usefulness of thermal infrared sensors onboard NOAA polar-orbiting satelites for detecting fires. In particular, the 3.8-micron channel is sensitive to high temperature sources such as fires. This paper will demonstrate how the 3.8-micron…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Berlad, Rothermel, Frandsen
An experimental and theoretical examination of the mass burning and evaporation-rate structure of a bed of fine solid-fuel elements is made for several cases of quasi-steady firespread waves propagating along and into the surface of the bed. Several distinct regimes are found to…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biging, Wensel
A method of photographing and digitizing radial growth on section rounds from destructively sampled trees for stem analysis was developed and compared in accuracy against hand measurements on those same rounds. Results indicated a high degree of correlation between photographic…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gollahalli, Brzustowski
Model experiments were performed in a preliminary study of the behaviour of a small ground fire in the lee of a tree. The fires were simulated by alcohol wick burners and the trees by vertical pipes. Data were taken up to RE = 20,000 with the burners located downwind of the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamilton
Methods are described for sampling and estimating mortality rates using strips of large-scale color aerial photography as the primary sampling unit. The methods have been designed to be used in situations where steep terrain and the lack of a radar altimeter make it very…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
Implementation of Forest Fire Weather Forecasting requires the development for a procedure for obtaining representative wind speed observations for large areas. In this paper, a procedure is outlined whereby surface observations can be used to obtain area averages. The procedure…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fleeter, Fendell, Cohen, Gat, White
Urban and wildland fires propagate via ignition of discrete fuel elements.Transfer of heat from burning to nonburning fuel is strongly influenced by wind because of its effects on combustion rates, on convective flow patterns, and on radiative transfer owing to its modification…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
Large suppression programs have been organized in an effort to avoid the potentially large damages from wildfires. To help determine the efficient sizes and usage of these programs, simulation models have been developed. Recent widespread implementation of one such model --…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rappaport
'...Here we shall examine the flow of energy in an agricultural society that practices a mode of gardening known for millenniums, a mode likely to have been the first to enable pioneer farmers to exploit an almost unpopulated part of the world: the humid Tropics...'
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chase
Extends equations for calculating the maximum spot fire distance to include wind-driven fires burning in surface fuels as a firebrand source. Predictions are based upon prevailing windspeed, vegetational cover, and local terrain. The equations can be used on a programmable…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS