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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The National Weather Service Fire Weather Program provides weather forecasting and meteorological support services to state and federal wildland fire management agencies. An Intergovernmental Fire Weather User's Summit, sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roberts, Mallik
Natural Pinus resinosa (red pine) stands in Newfoundland are restricted to 22 small, dry, nutrient-poor sites. A short wildfire cycle (15 - 30 yr) of both surface and crown fire regulates stand perimeters and is the main factor in regulating stand development. At the nucleus of…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Wells
From the text... 'One of the potential problems with the use of prescribed burning in the past has been the lack of any systematic investigation into the ecological effects of this forest management practice on the ecosystem. In 1991, the planning process to address this issue…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Price, Rind
Each year lightning ignites approximately 10,000 wildland fires in the United States alone. Therefore, when considering how climate change may affect wildland fires, one needs to consider possible changes in lightning activity. With the aid of satellite cloud and lightning…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Meisner, Fujioka
The United States Historical Climatology Network (HCN) database was compiled by the National Climatic Data Center in response to a compelling interest in climate change. The database contains monthly temperature and precipitation data for approxiamtely 1200 stations in the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCutchan, Chow
A 30-day fire weather forecast system predicts the monthly mean afternoon temperature, dew point, and wind speed at the 127 National Weather Service (NWS) stations across the United States. The forecast afternoon monthly mean temperature and dew point are then used to calculate…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Whistler
This paper describes a system for preparing monthly outlooks for fire-weather elements in the United States. The system is based on multiple regression equations that specify monthly mean anomalies of precipitation, temperature, dewpoint, and wind speed from concurrent anomalies…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reutebuch, Hardy
Large-scale aerial photographs of slash piles in harvested units were evaluated with an analytical stereoplotter for determining dimensions and volumes. The photogrammetric method provides accurate and efficient volume estimates for calculating fuel loadings and distributions on…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Xanthopoulos, Wakimoto
The objective of the study was the development of an empirical model to predict when a surface fire may ignite the forest crown and become a crown fire. Through an extensive literature review candidate variables for inclusion in the model were identified. The importance of these…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richards
This paper shows how equations that simulate fire front growth for constant slope and spatially independent and velocity can be generalized to describe fire front growth for spatially and temporally varying fuel, topography and wind velocity. The equations are a set of first…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer
Firebrands spread fire efficiently, but their occurrence is difficult to understand and predict. It is obvious that potential firebrands form and burn-up continuously in any wildland fire, just as it is apparent that there is upward motion above a fire. But, firebrands do not…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Todd, Ogilvie
The concepts of a Prescribed Fire Ignition Expert System (PFIES) are discussed. The system will be designed to be used in planning any prescribed burn that utilizes the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in setting the weather prescription. The idea for an expert system…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin, Finney, Molina, Sapsis, Stephens, Scott, Weise
Dimensional analysis has potential to help explain and predict physical phenomena, but has been used very little in studies of wildland fire behavior. By combining variables into dimensionless groups, the number of variables to be handled and the experiments to be run is greatly…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lanoville, Mallinson
Fire seasons in the lower Mackenzie River Valley, located in the northwestern portion of the Nortwest Territories, are typically of short duration with intermittent periods of intense drying of the forest fuels under continuous or near-continuous sunlight. Disturbances moving…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kalabokidis, Hay, Hussin
Spatial data analysis and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology offer an opportunity to improve upon spatially unresolved fire behavior models (e.g., BEHAVE) The feasibility of applying the fire spread module of BEHAVE in a spatially resolved manner was determined for a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuglem, Danard
A major problem with weather data in complex terrain is temporal and spatial interpolation. The British Columbia Forest Service, through the services of Atmospheric Dynamics Corporation, has adapted a meso-scale weather model to provide hourly predictions out to 4.5 days for a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen
Smoldering spread rates (cm h-1) are derived from the results of an experimental evaluation of the unit area burning rate of smoldering material (g cm-2 h-1). The unit area burning rate, which is the load loss rate normal to the smoldering surface, depends only on the moisture…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Cheney, Trevitt
The term 'tree crown street' has been coined to describe the pattern of burned or partially burned tree crowns, aligned roughly parallel to the general direction of fire spread, that is often left in the wake of crowning forest fires. Within the streets the foliage of the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Eenigenburg
This paper describes an information system that uses National Weather Service computer-generated forecasts to automatically produce 1- and 2-day fire severity forecasts for 49 States. There are two computer models - the limited fine mesh model and the nested grid model. Both…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothwell, Woodard, Samran
Ground fuels in aspen forests of central Alberta even after considerable periods of dry weather are moist and do not easily ignite, nor sustain combustion. It was hypothesized that low flammability of aspen ground fuels is significantly affected by capillary soil water flow from…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kanjanakunchorn, Woodard, McDonald
A commonly available plastic garden-type soaker hose was tested in a 'series' configuration to determine the suitability of using this hose type to contain wildland fires. The bursting strength was determined for three hose-types (the RCR-strata, 3-tube, Robinson) as part of…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
The 1989 fire season was the most severe in 71-years of recorded fire history in Manitoba. A total of 1147 fires burned 3.28 million ha and cost over $63 million (CDN) to suppress. The events of 1989 resulted in the development and implementation of a new Initial Attack…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chou
Geographic Information System (GIS) is used to delineate critical zones of extremely high fire danger. The objective is to develop effective spatial strategies for the prevention and suppression of wildland fires. To minimize costs and losses due to wildland fires while within…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chase
The computer simulation process used by the National Forests and other wildland protection agencies for strategic fire planning evaluates alternatives based on the range of probable fire behavior conditions that may be expected on the unit over a total period of approxiately 10…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Hartford, Eidenshink, Werth
The use of satellite remote sensing to assess vegetation greenness was investigated over the Western United States in 1989 and expanded to the entire conterminous United States during l990. This study utilizes the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data acquired by…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS