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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Potter, Andresen
The authors present a finite-difference numerical model of heat flow within a horizontal section of a tree stem. Processes included in the model are solar radiative heating, infrared emission and absorption, convective heat exchange between tree surface and the atmosphere, and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Billings
Forest biomass, rates of production, and carbon dynamics are a function of climate, plant species present, and the structure of the soil organic and mineral layers. Inventory data from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Inventory Analysis Unit was used to develop estimates of the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Fire-growth modeling on complex landscapes can be approached as a search for the minimum time for fire to travel among nodes in a two-dimensional network. The paths producing minimum travel time between nodes are then interpolated to reveal the fire perimeter positions at an…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
González-Cabán, Shinkle, Mills
Evaluating economic efficiency of fire management program options requires information on the firefighting inputs, such as vehicles and crews, that would be needed to execute the program option selected. An algorithm was developed to translate automatically dollars allocated to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Zasada, Chapin
The pattern of primary succession on the floodplain of the Tanana River in interior Alaska resulted largely from interactions between stochastic events and life history traits of the dominant species. Seed rain by willow (Salix alaxensis), alder (Alnus tenuifolia), poplar (…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prentice
Vegetation responses to climatic change can be studied retrospectively by utilizing the Quaternary fossil record. There has been controversy over the extent to which major changes in vegetation patterns at the continental scale lag behind the climatic changes that drive them,…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Spear, Cannell
A study was performed at two air tanker/retardant bases to determine the mixmaster?s exposure to dust derived from mixing dry fire retardant compounds. Personal sampling for both inhalable and respirable dust was conducted while the mixmaster mixed fire retardant compounds to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morandini, Santoni, Balbi, Ventura, Mendes-Lopes
In a previous work (Santoni et al., Int. J. Wildland Fire, 2000, 9(4), 285-292), we proposed a twodimensional fire spread model including slope effects as another step towards our aim to elaborate a fire management tool. In the present study, we improve the model to include both…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viegas
The evolution of a linear flame front in a homogeneous fuel bed in a slope, for arbitrary values of the initial orientation of the fire front is studied. It is shown that, with the exception of initially horizontal or down-slope propagating fire lines, the propagation is not…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Agee, Huff
An increment borer is a precision instrument specially designed to extract a thin cylinder of wood from a tree, shrub, log or pole. It is available in a variety of sizes ranging in length from 4 inches to 40 inches. Although the increment borer is essentially a very simple…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gettle, Rice
A 30-foot (9.1 m) separation between structures and vegetation is widely used as the required minimum in many regulations in the USA. This paper attempts to provide a model for estimating a safe separation, or 'setback'. Radiant heat flux is the dominant heat transfer mechanism…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gehring, George
Forest fire retardants can corrode aircraft and mixing, storage, and handling facilities. Extent and severity of corrosion depend on the metals involved, specific exposure, and other factors. This report provides a nontechnical description of the mechanics of such corrosion and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Susott
Describes how to compute indexes and components for the 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System using the Hewlett-Packard 71B handheld calculator and custom memory. Predicting fire behavior with the HP-71B is described in a separate publication, "Fire Behavior Computations with…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Johnson
Onsite fire retardant effectiveness is dependent on a retardant's physical (rheological) and chemical (active fire-inhibiting salt) properties. Quality control at each retardant base is necessary to assure cost-effectiveness is achieved. Using relatively simple techniques,…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Haines, Main
Wind tunnel measurements of temperature and velocity fields of a buoyant plume and vortex pair that formed above a heated nichrome wire are described. The differential heating and subsequent temperature gradient, transverse to the main stream flow, produced the longitudinal…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schapiro
The San Dimas Technology and Development Center (SDTDC) investigated the use of air curtain destructors (ACDs) as an efficient, environmentally friendly, and technically viable means of disposing of slash, wood, and other burnable waste materials. ACDs should be considered an…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev
A method of analytical differentiation is developed for processing differential absorption lidar (DIAL) data. The method is based on simple analytical transformation of the DIAL on and off signal ratio. The derivatives consequently are found for either individual data points or…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
In a year that produced yet another record-setting wildfire season in the western United States, former Forest Service researcher Steve Arno and science writer Steven Allison-Bunnell urge Tree Farmers to demonstrate how to nurture forests that are fire-resistant and sustainable…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Susott, Burgan
This report describes the operation of the fire behavior prediction program available as a Custom Read Only Memory (CROM) for the Hewlett-Packard model 71B handheld calculator. Worked examples are given for each of the 13 program modules, and the inputs and outputs are…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Susott
If your Texas Instruments TI-59 is nearing its last gasp, you can replace it with a newer calculator and enjoy the use of improved fire danger and fire behavior programs. The Hewlett-Packard HP-71B handheld calculator has been selected to replace the TI-59 and is now available…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
Describes BURN Subsystem, Part 1, the operational fire behavior prediction subsystem of the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. The manual covers operation of the computer program, assumptions of the mathematical models used in the calculations, and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Winandy
What materials will emerge from todays research ideas to become the commonly accepted building products of 2020? What will durable materials look like in 2020? This paper attempts to address these questions by considering some current trends and then presenting a series of ideas…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, Weise, Mackes, Dibble
As part of efforts to address fire problems in the wildland-urban interface, the cone calorimeteris being used to measure the relative flammability of different plant species. In the first twostudies, we tested plants used to landscape homes in California and an assortment of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wade, Brenner
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES