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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bradshaw, Fischer
This manual provides program writeups for two separate but related computer programs: RXWTHR and RXBURN. These programs are components of a system designed to aid fire managers in predicting the probable occurrence of desired prescribed fire weather conditions. The programs are…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chase
This note presents equations for calculating maximum spot fire distance from firebrand sources in the Intermountain West based on prevailing windspeed, vegetation cover, and terrain in the area. The equations include the capability to predict spotting distance from a torching…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
This note extends a predictive model for estimating spot fire distance from burning trees (Albini, Frank A. 1979. Spot fire distance from burning trees-a predictive model. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT-56, 73 p. Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Atkinson
Meso-scale atmospheric circulations.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Luti
A numerical model which can be used to study some aspects of mass fires is presented. The k-ϵ model of turbulence and the flame sheet model of combustion are employed. To account for the 'unmixed-ness' of the fuel and oxidant, a fraction of oxygen is treated as inert while…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
A one-dimensional model is developed for the structure of the wind-blown, turbulent flame from a line fire in which buoyancy is the principal source of vertical momentum. A one-step, second-order bimolecular reaction between fuel and air is used, with rate proportional to the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Palmer
Experimental, free-burning wood fires larger than 5 ha were similar in convection column volume after the initial buoyant, ring-vortex rose from the ground. The fire generated strong vorticity patterns which propagated upward into the convection column. The rotation suppressed…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ward
In this paper, the impact on air quality of prescribed fire for weed control is described, and management opportunities to control air pollution are discussed.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bankston, Zinn, Browner, Powell
This paper is concerned with the investigation of the detailed aspects of smoke generation during the burning of natural and synthetic solid materials under simulated fire conditions. With this objective in mind, the first portion of the paper is devoted to a review of relevant…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kerstetter
ANNOTATION: This paper reviews the topic of biomass air gasifiers. The gasification process chemistry is outlined and the operating characteristics of two types of gasifiers are presented. A few typical applications are discussed and the economics for a particular system are…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meyer
ANNOTATION: This paper briefly describes the history of the logging industry in the United States. Specifically, harvesting technology and methods are discussed. Many significant and far-reaching changes have taken place in the logging industry since its inception in the mid-…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robatcek
ANNOTATION: The purpose of the paper is to discuss some of the implications of improved residue utilization on timber sales activities. Improved residue utilization on timber sales requires new and innovative economic and practical approaches on timber sales. Varying uses,…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schweitzer
ANNOTATION: As the values of wood products increase, there are more economic opportunities to utilize residues. This is true both for dead-and-down materials and for previously unharvested stands which, together, make up the potential economic residues resource. A variety of…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
ANNOTATION: The framework for harvesting and utilization opportunities for forest residues includes a number of long standing as well as recently enacted statutes. Air and water quality standards as set forth in legislation also have an effect on utilization opportunities. A…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturos
ANNOTATION: Three processes have been developed in the United States, one in Canada, and one in Finland for improving the quality of whole-tree and forest residue chips. They have potential application individually or in combination. Two of them have been applied commercially by…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niering
Prescribed burning is extensively used in wildlife, forest, and range management, and in maintaining biotic diversity. Burning tends to increase food and/or favourable habitat conditions for many upland game and waterfowl species. Prescribed burning in forest management is used…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Day, Harvey
The mixedwood forest is defined as a successional mosaic of stratified mixed stands of disturbance (mainly wildfire) origin. The effect of long-term exclusion of fire is discussed. A plea is made for a 'let-burn' policy in parks and improved silviculture for maintaining the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
Bulk densities of surface fuels divided into three strata were determined for dominant fuel groups to aid in describing compactness and horizontal continuity for fire behavior modeling. Dominant fuel groups were defined as horizontally distributed fuels having recognizably…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ward, Sandberg
This publication presents tables on the behavior of fire and the resistance of fuels to control. The information is to be used with the publication, "Photo Series for Quantifying Forest Residues in the Ponderosa Pine Type, Ponderosa Pine and Associated Species Type, Lodgepole…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg, Ward
This publication presents tables on the behavior of fire and the resistance of fuels to control. The information is to be used with the photos in the publication, 'Photo Series for Quantifying Forest Residues in the Coastal Douglas-fir--Hemlock Type, Coastal Douglas-fir--…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Lee, Street
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
This report discusses a proposed new fire retardant system and the laboratory analysis and evaluation of the retardant solution produced. The demand mix system uses an ammonium sulfate based concentrate to which a gum-thickener (with or without coloring) is added as the solution…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yarie
The negative exponential and Wiebull distributions were used to estimate stand survivorship curves for forested sites in the Porcupine River drainage of interior Alaska. The survivorship curve of Picea glauca (Moench) Voss sites was best described by a Wiebull function, while…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff, Lidicker
1. In central Alaska, Taiga Voles live in communal groups of five to ten individuals (mean = 7.1) for eight months of the year. During this winter period, they share a common stored food cache. 2. Evidence from both field monitoring of nest temperatures and laboratory studies…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES