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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Beaufait, Fischer
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee, Hellman
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sando, Dobbs
From the Introduction: 'It is only recently, however, that prescribed burning has been introduced in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and, consequently, relatively few peple in these provinces are experienced in its use. It is for this reason that this note has been prepared-to serve…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Murphy
Discussions with fire-weather forecasters and their responses to the questionnaire revealed that SFWF's for prescribed burns typically include forecasts for the planned ignition time and three twelve-hour periods as well as a long-range outlook, and that SFWF's are usually…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
From the text: 'In summary, the coupling of a burning prescription which could deliver adequate fire intensity with gelled gasoline helitorch ignition to overcome some of the fuel arrangement and topographic problems resulted in a generally successful rehabilitation effort at…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Text: 'Recent spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) infestations have resulted in widespread areas of balsam fir (Abies balsamea [L.] Mill) mortality in Ontario and interest in converting these areas back into productive forest by the use of a tramping following by a…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Text: 'Eleven experimental burns were conducted in the Kapuskasing District of the northern Clay Belt Region in Ontario for the period 1979-1983. The test fires, using strip headfires for ignition, were used to study the fire behavior in boreal mixedwood slash fuel complexes as…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler
From the summary ... ' In summary, the results of these large scale fire tests, conducted under marginal burning conditions, were negative; but, paradoxically, I find this very heartening, for we can now be much more confident in our predictions of fire behavior to be expected…
Year: 1969
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
Alexander
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
This paper analysizes wind speed and direction distributions obtained at nine forestry stations and nine airports across Canada. The effect of differences in the distributions on forest fire danger rating is discussed. The major finding is that forestry stations have a…
Year: 1969
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
Pech
Seven composite samples of western red cedar and western hemlock logging slash of 0.25 to 2 inches diameter were exposed on top of and within the bottom third of a fuel bed in the interior wet belt of British Columbia in August 1965. Their moisture contents were measured…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Anderson
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beaufait, Fischer
Fire managers require 24-hour records of temperature, relative humidity, and windspeed to use fire efficiently and effectively. When carefully calibrated and interpreted, modified hygrothermographs provide minimum instrumentation to obtain these records. An actual case of record…
Year: 1969
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
Anderson
Experimental testing of a mathematical model showed that radiant heat transfer accounted for no more than 40% of total heat flux required to maintain rate of spread. A reasonable prediction of spread was possible by assuming a horizontal convective heat transfer coefficient when…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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
Montgomery, Cheo
The burning characteristics of several fire-retardant plants and Southern California chaparral shrubs of recognized high flammability were compared in muffle-furnance tests at 650 C. Fresh terminal growth of Atriplex lentiformis did not burn as readily as comparable material of…
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil, Grigel
[no description entered]
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS