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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mollner, Olsen
The Automated Fire Weather Forecast (AFWF) is a computer program designed to forecast seven of the eight fire weather forecast parameters issued daily during the fire weather season at the Boise Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO). The program uses Limited Fine Mesh (LFM)…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roussopoulos, Yancik, Radloff
'We have developed a prototype National Fire Occurrence Data Library (NF0DL) to help fire managers interact with resource managers in meeting the new planning requirements of the Resources Planning Act and the National Forest Management Act. The data library provides means for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Nelson
The authors present scaling relationships for modeling pulsating fires. Data gathered from various sizes of pulsating fires compared favorably with the predicted relationships between fire diameter and pulsation frequency.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arianoutsou, Diamantopoulos, Margaris
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
What is flammability? The author suggests that it consists of ignitibility, sustainability, and combustibility. He defines ignitibility in terms of fuel properties and heat source intensity. Similar methods for determining sustainability and combustibility have not yet been…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg, Lancaster, Schroeder
Standard drying conditions in the laboratory have been related to the diurnal fluctuations of temperature and humidity to define a standard drying day for forest fuels. The mean equilibrium moisture content of a fuel on a standard drying day is slightly different from the…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
Numerical solutions of the time-dependent diffusion equation were used to evaluate the influence of species and size on drying rates of heartwood of six tree species-four of them common forest fuels and two representing extremes of microstructures in heartwood. Cylindrical…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Berlad
A theoretical model is constructed that represents quasi-steady fire spread in solid fuel arrays. The continuum representation employs descriptors that follow naturally from existing flame theory and that correspond to real observables. A set of 'debris conservation equations'…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dodge
Fire retardants used in combating forest and range fires have been accused of killing livestock by nitrate poisoning. Ammonia-based retardants cannot cause nitrate poisoning directly. They must first enter the soil, be converted to nitrates, then be absorbed and accumulated by…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Martin
The fire whirlwind, an erratic and violent phenomenon associated with the behavior of intense fires, may generate velocities comparable to those reached in tornadoes. All the conditions essential to the formation of fire whirlwinds can be readily produced in the laboratory on a…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cargill
Fire perimeters can be quickly estimated using a 'rate of spread/elapsed time' table. This eliminates the need for plotting the fire acreage in order to determine the perimeter of the fire, and control force requirements based on fire perimeter can be determined quicker.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carleton, Maycock
Results from an extensive vegetation survey of 197 boreal forest stands, encompassing a full spectrum of succession and site types in the regions of Ontario and Quebec south of James Bay, are reported. Non-centered principal component analysis plus varimax rotation (nodal…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey, Anderson
Soil surface temperatures averaged 186, 398 and 393 C for grass, shrub and forest communities, respectively. Higher temperatures were associated with head fires, more fuel and with woody fuels. Temperatures in headfires were higher but more variable than in backfires for the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maass
A single thallus of Erioderma pedicellatum has been found in Newfoundland near one of the 2 North American localities known thus far for this unusual lichen. Whereas almost all of the other species of the genus have tropical to subtropical affinities in their distribution and…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Archibold
Seed traps were installed at seven sites along a transect in a burned mixedwood forest site in northern Saskatchewan to determine annual seed inputs. The seeds were returned to the laboratory for germination and identification. A total of 1698 seeds was collected in the 1977-…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lemon
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anonymous
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anonymous
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rasmussen
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bumb, Crummett, Cutie, Gledhill, Hummel, Kagel, Lamparski, Luoma, Miller, Nestrick, Shadoff, Stehl, Woods
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romme
It is often quite difficult to compare fire history studies conducted by different investigators because different terms may be used to refer to the same concept and the same term may be used to refer to different concepts. To help resolve this difficulty, an ad hoc committee…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stokes
Dendrochronology, the study of annual rings in woody plants, has developed into a useful tool for a number of different fields of study. Based on the interaction of trees and the climate, it is possible to use tree-rings as proxy data in reconstruction of past climates and river…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuquay
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) (Deeming and others 1972) has been updated; the revised system will be in use in l978 (Deeming and others 1977). One of the changes in the NFDRS is treatment of lightning-caused fires. A model based on physical and stochastic…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS