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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Niering
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Malanson
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butson, Knowles, Farmer
SUMMARY: ( 1) Samples of three naturally occurring, disjunct stands of Pinus resinosa Ait. (red pine) located in the general vicinity of Lake Nipigon, Ontario were mapped, cored for age-estimation, and measured for growth in diameter. (2) The two most western populations showed…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Johnston
Fuel loading, fireline intensity, and expected fire size were determined after harvesting small-stem lodgepole pine stands. Curves relating predicted fireline intensity to slash fuel loading and windspeed are presented. Removing about 15 tons per acre of residues reduced…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren, Scifres, Teel
Grassland burning elicits a diverse array of responses by arthropods, depending upon many interactive factors. Empirical models were develoed, based on the literature, to qualitatively order selected behavioral characteristics of fire, arthropod life habits and phenology,…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniell, Kulik
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Hummel, Van Wagner
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Angelstam
Summary (p.499-500) ... 'Fire is an important natural and anthropogenic factor in the dynamics of the boreal forest system. The ecological and environmental impacts of boreal fires depend on fire weather, fuel availability, fire behavior and history of stand development (…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Latham
Describes design and construction of a system for creating a vertical, unbounded arc discharge in air. The arc is initiated by an exploding tungsten wire and is turned on and off by a silicon-controlled rectifier switching system. As a safety precaution, all circuits are…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jensen, Hann, Keane, Caratti, Bourgeron
[no description entered]
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
Palmer, Goodale, Martin
Large, free-burning fires do not burn steadily. As most experienced fire personnel know, fire behavior varies significantly with time. It frequently can be described as pulsating. This pulsing is caused by a process called layer-replacement. As the burning creates a zone of hot…
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
Kierstead, Dickison, DeMille
Rainfall is one of the most important of the weather parameters on which fire-danger calculations are based. Therefore, a fire weather network which has been optimally designed for measurement of daily rainfall will be adequate for other input parameters as well. Spatial…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Fast
A two-dimensional, coupled, earth-atmospheric model has been used to simulate mean and turbulent atmospheric conditions near lines of extreme surface heating. Prognostic equations are used to solve for the horizontal and vertical wind components, potential temperature, and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Graham
The National Weather Service (NWS) has provided on-site forecasting services during wildland fire incidents for about 60 years. The basic design of mobile fire weather support units evolved slowly until recently. Prior to the mid 1980's, a vehicle-based support unit was used.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roads, Ueyoshi, Alpert, Fujioka
Recently, Fosberg and Fujioka (1987) emphasized the potential importance that accurate long-range weather forecasts would have on national and regional land and fire management. In particular, they described a national research plan to integrate present day medium/long-range…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Canadian/United States cooperative mass fire behavior and atmospheric environmental impact study
Over the past four years scientists have cooperatively monitored fire behavior and smoke chemistry, on a number of large prescribed fires in the Province of Ontario. Primary cooperating agencies include Forestry Canada, the United States Forest Service, the National Aeronautics…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Molenkamp, Bradley
The OCTET modeling system has been designed to simulate the atmospheric dynamics, microphysics and scavenging above hypothetical large city fires with energy release rates on the order of 10-100kW/m2 over areas of tens to hundreds of square kilometers. It simulates the three-…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
A one-dimensional plume model was developed for use by fire-weather forecasters and others who want a small computer platform tool for vertical parcel method motions with respect to an ambient real sounding. The model includes cloud microphysics parameterizations for cloud water…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS