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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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From the introduction:'This Technical Note is an attempt to summarize what has been done in a number of areas of the world to provide adequate forecasts of fire danger in terms of past, present and forecast weather conditions. It is not intended to be complete operational manual…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This Report is a technical comparison of the American and Canadian systems of forest fire danger rating. It deals with the three fuel moisture indicators in each system, as well as the indexes of spread and energy release or buildup. The final comparison is between the American…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Methven, Van Wagner, Stocks
As the initial step in a study of forest fire cycles in the boreal forest of northwestern Ontario, four burned areas of different ages were briefly examined. This Report describes the present condition of the areas visited in terms of both forest cover and vegetation. Tentative…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee, Emmons
The behaviour of a natural convection plume above a line fire is studied both theoretically and experimentally. In the theoretical treatment, a turbulent plume above a steady two-dimensional finite source of heated fluid in a uniform ambient fluid is investigated. By the use of…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
'Fire Spread in a Black Spruce Stand.-The Canadian Forest Fire weather Index Tables consist of a family of relative fire danger indices that are used throughout Canada to assist in general fire control planning and operations. However, the fire manager must predict real fire…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer, Auvil
Wind velocity, direction, and temperatures can vary drastically before, during, and after wild or prescribed fires. A data-recording system based on the logarithmic character of semiconductors has been developed for observing turbulent fluctuations from the mean in ratio form.…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frampton
'The burning of logging slash has been a common practice in the Pacific Northwest ever since the introduction of clear-cut logging. In those days of low stumpage and log values no one needed to be too careful of the amount of damage done and the whole business was handled pretty…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hibbert, Davis, Brown
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Furman
The specification of moisture contents in forest fuels is an integral part of any workable fire-danger rating system. This paper presents a linear model for estimating the moisture content of the 100-hour timelag fuels. The variables in the model include yesterday's computed…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beran
Stability of the atmosphere at different levels is one important factor affecting the behavior of forest fires, but the measurement of stability and other atmospheric phenomena is complex and difficult. The acoustic echo sounder shows promise for measuring these parameters and…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parmeter, Uhrenholdt
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruce, Pong, Fons
A program of research on free-burning wood fires is being conducted by the Forest Service to build up experimental data on the properties of such fires, with the iltimate objective of describing the physical phenomena in terms of fundamental laws. Density was the first wood…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fons
The U.S. Forest Service has started a laboratory study with the ultimate objective of determining model laws for fire behavior. The study includes an examination of the effect of such variables as species of wood, density of wood, moisture content, size of fuel particle, spacing…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Otto
A report is hereby given to the results of an originally seemingly inconspicuous burn in a simple simulated urban street arrangement which is inductive to probable gross vortex formation. These results reveal in vivid details a series of most unusual and exciting events of gross…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Three ingredients are essential for a wildland fire to start and to burn. First, there must be burnable fuel available. Then enough heat must be applied to the fuel to raise its temperature to the ignition point. And finally, there must be enough air to supply oxygen needed to…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Morton, Leslie
Earlier models of fire plumes based on simple entrainment laws and neglecting dynamic pressure have failed to produce the relatively shallow inflow over the fire perimeter known as fire wind. This inflow is of prime importance in fire modelling as it normally provides much of…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fons, Bruce, Pong
A laboratory study was set up by the U.S. Forest Service with the ultimate objective of determining model laws for properties of wood fires, including rate of spread. This is a report of the first phase of the work, the development of a suitable bed of solid fuel and the…
Year: 1961
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noste, Davis
Discussion of fire-damage appraisal in relation to fire-protection planning shows a need for a standard appraisal system on all federal lands. Fire control costs and damages on an interior Alaska and a northern Minnesota fire are compared; application of both Bureau of Land…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Baker
Comprises 80 references to papers and publications related specifically to fire management of wilderness areas in the USA. An index is given to 11 general subject categories.
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kiil
'This Symposium comprises several interrelated parts aimed at familiarizing chemists, physicists, engineers and managers with the latest developments in all aspects of flammability and fire retardants. My assigned topic suggests that my presentation should accomplish this task…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS