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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Anderson
The Sundance Fire and its impressive run were not due to any new phenomena but the combination of several important factors. Extremely dry fuels and favourable weather conditions existed at the time; the atmospheric winds increased steadily thorughout the day, and the fire did…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore
[no description entered]
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fischer, Beaufait, Norum
Conventional hygrothermographs can be modified as described here to record windspeed along with temperature and relative humidity. The fire-weather record resulting from the modification has several fire management applications, as demonstrated in field use.
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kiil, Grigel
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oberle
Discusses (with particular reference to conditions in Alaska) the value of occasional small fires in burning undergrowth and litter to prevent the accumulation of inflammable material and the risk of major damage, the erosion likely to be caused by using bulldozers to make fire…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Komarek
In 1931 Herbert L. Stoddard, the Dean of Game Management in his classic investigation of the Bobwhite Quail stated: 'While an immediate and direct effect of burning is, of course always apparent, the general effect of long-continued annual or irregular but frequent burning upon…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gillean
An account of a portable system comprising two 6-ft long antennae, a receiver and a plotter which can detect and locate cloud-to-ground lightning strokes within a 200-mile radius. The system worked well in tests in Alaska.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES