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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Trigg
Calculated values of precipitation effectiveness index and temperature efficiency index for 48 weather observation stations on the Alaska mainland are used to delineate areas that have different climatic subclassifications during the wildfire season of April through September.…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beaufait, Fischer
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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee, Hellman
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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Douglas
The application of weather modification techniques as a fire control tool was field tested in Alaska during the summers of 1969 and 1970. The 1969 trial was primarily exploratory. Data gathered indicated clouds or cloud-systems exist in interior Alaska which are amenable to…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swift
A short history of the fire weather service is presented with a report on progress made under the 'Federal Plan for a National Fire Weather Service.' The highlights of the plan and its application to the requirements of forest and range management interests in Alaska are…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder
From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
Year: 1971
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
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
Smith
The need to develop improved methods for damage appraisal and a desire for better understanding of the economics of forest protection are illustrated with some data on forest fires in British Columbia, 1912-1968. Fire suppression and general protection costs have increased very…
Year: 1971
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
Simard
Implementation of Forest Fire Weather Forecasting requires the development for a procedure for obtaining representative wind speed observations for large areas. In this paper, a procedure is outlined whereby surface observations can be used to obtain area averages. The procedure…
Year: 1971
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
Harpster, Douglas
'...Whether in controlling the buildup index or in supressing fires once they are in progress, the techniques of weather modification must be considered -- at least at this point in their development -- as a potential supplement to other fire control techniques already in use.'
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
'Fuel moistures are among the most important environmental factors required in fire danger rating evaluations. Direct observations of fuel moisture such as with fuel sticks or other analog devices are desirable for evaluation of the current fire danger because they integrate all…
Year: 1971
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
Fosberg, Deeming
Procedures for calculating the moisture contents of 1- and 10-hour timelag fuels have been developed based on theoretical calculations of the rate of moisture transport in wood. The 1 -hour timelag calculation is superior to fine fuel moisture calculations developed previously…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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
Countryman
'If it hadn't been for that damn fire whirl we would have caught it at 5 acres,' yelled the fire boss to his assistant as they watched the fire crews mop up the final smoldering spots in a 250-acre brush fire. The fire had been contained at about 5 acres, and the crew had just…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Countryman
'Humidity' is an eight-letter word that is heard around fire camps and on the fireline almost as often as the more widely known four-letter words. Most firefighters know that humidity has something to do with moisture in the air. If it is low, they expect difficulty in…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuettner
It is now well known that parallel cloud bands are widespread in the earth's atmosphere. Observations from manned and unmanned spacecraft and from high-altitude aircraft in connection with soundings from ships and ground stations have shed light on their origin. These and a…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Smith, Hilton
This paper reports on the effects on lowbush blueberries and associated species of pruning by two methods of burning and by mechanical clipping, on three dates in the growing season at a north-eastern Ontario location. Significant soil changes recorded during the study are…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS