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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Cain
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Year: 1984
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
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
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
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
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
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
Carleton
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Susott
Differential scanning calorimetry has been applied to three woody laboratory fuels studied in current wildland fire modeling research. The heat required to increase a fuel's temperature to ignition is an important modeling parameter affecting the rate of fire spread. Below 200Â…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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: FRAMES
Rothermel
Aerial ignition devices are being used which can start fires by a succession of point sources or by a line of fire. Through the use of these devices, the fire manager has considerable control of the fire situation. Control of the ultimate fire behavior depends on the ignition…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini
[Excerpted from text] During a period of three days in mid-February 1983, bushfires swept over 400,000 ha in southern Australia, killing 74 people, destroying more than 2,000 homes, and burning out 7 towns. This tragic repetition of the fires of January 1939, in which 71 people…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Rothermel
This manual documents the fuel modeling procedures of BEHAVE--a state-of-the-art wildland fire behavior prediction system. Described are procedures for collecting fuel data, using the data with the program, and testing and adjusting the fuel model.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS), implemented in 1972, has been revised and reissued as the 1978 NFDRS. This report describes the full developmental history of the NFDRS, including purpose, technical foundation, and structure. Includes an extensive bibliography and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Becker, Phillips, Keller
Pyrolysis of white pine wood has been studied in thin samples (1.6 mm thick slabs) exposed in an oven at 199-365 degrees C and in thick samples (8-50 mm diam branch segments) exposed in a wind tunnel at 365-525 degrees C and 3-18 m/s wind speed. In the limit case of sufficiently…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Becker, Phillips
In a previous study, single sticks of dry white pine 8-50 mm diam were exposed in a high-termperature wind tunnel providing effective wind speeds of 3-18 m/s. The working section wall temperature and gas temperature were equal, 357-857 degrees C. Several regimes of behavior were…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Becker, Phillips
In the previous study, single sticks of dry white pine 8-50 mm diam. were exposed in a high-temperature and the gas temperature were equal, 357-857 C. Several regimes of behavior were perceived, among them a regime typically occurring at tempertaures above 500 C in which fully…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
González-Cabán
Costs of mopping up wildfires have been difficult to estimate because data are not recorded in a way conducive to separate total fire cost into components such as personnel and equipment or mobilization and demobilization of crews. To estimate costs, 25 National Forests in three…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS