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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Holland, Steyn
The radiant energy income of a slope influences its ambient temperatures and water movements, both of which are important controls on the growth behaviour, species composition and structure of its vegetation cover. Therefore, information about the radiation environments of…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daubenmire, Prusso
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
From the text: 'Research has demonstrated that a high correlation exists between the moisture content of fine fuels and the moisture content of the ambient air. The mortarboard psychrometer was developed by the Southern Forest Fire Laboratory to provide a simple, accurate, yet…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner, Pickett
This report presents the equations for the new 1976 metric version of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index. In addition to the changes needed to accommodate metric weather data, several mathematical improvements are introduced as well. These eliminate certain anomalies in the…
Year: 1975
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
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
Stockstad
Spontaneous and piloted ignition of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Laws.) needles were investigated in an isothermal atmosphere. Four levels of sample moisture content were tested and minimum heat flux intensities required to produce ignition, times to ignition, and surface…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram
It is assumed that the flow of moisture in forest fuels and other woody materials is determined by the gradient of a quantity g which is a function of some property, or properties, of the moisture content. There appears to be no preferred choice for this function, hence moisture…
Year: 1963
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
Parmeter, Uhrenholdt
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
The model was developed from numerical and analytical solutions of the diffusion forms of the mass continuity equation and the first law of thermodynamics. Analytical solutions provided a functional framework to evaluate nonlinear interactions obtained in the numerical solutions…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George
Several fire retardants in current use were dropped from the Canadair CL-215 to determine drop height effects and for evaluation of the tank and gating system. This was accomplished through the quantification and analysis of the characteristics of the ground distribution…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini
Describes an algorithm for separating fuel depth data into distinctive groups of measurements. The algorithm is justified heuristically, through its mathematical similarity to the "tuner" of a radio receiver. Test data generated artificially were used to maximize the sensitivity…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Thomas
Uncontrolled fires produce flames where the initial momentum of the fuel is low compared with the momentum produced by buoyancy. The heights of such flames with wood as the fuel are examined and discussed in terms of both a dimensional analysis and the entrainment of air into…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chandler, Storey, Tangren
Mass fires are likely to follow a nuclear attack. Since it is important to the civil defense program to be able to predict rate, duration, and extent of spread of such fires, the Office of Civil Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, issued a joint contract to the Forest Service…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg
The model was developed from numerical and analytical solutions of the diffusion forms of the mass continuity equation and the first law of thermodynamics. Analytical solutions provided a functional framework to evaluate nonlinear interactions obtained in the numerical solutions…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kayll
Cambium heated with a hot air flow survived 60 degrees C exposures up to 4 minutes, and 65 degrees C for less than 2 minutes. Tetrazolium chloride was shown to be a suitable viability test stain for several resinous and non-resinous species. Techniques and results are discussed.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sylvester
Description not entered.
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Franks
The natural resources of Interior Alaska deserve a higher level of protection than is now feasible. This publication is written for both the person requiring specific data to do a better research or protection job and the person who wishes to become more thoroughly acquainted…
Year: 1963
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
Gara, Holsten
Preliminary biological studies of arctic Scolytidae were carried out during a scientific expedition of northwestern Alaska. Eight scolytid species were found associated with Picea glauca and a significant range extension for Dendroctonus punctatus was noted. Ips borealis host…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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