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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Year
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Young, Ogg, Dotray
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stevens
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heikes, Ransohoff, Small
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey, Irving, Fitzgerald
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
From the introduction: The Keetch-Byram Drought Index or KBDI has been or is still being used as a guide for estimating the cumulative moisture deficiency in deep duff or upper soil layers. Such information is needed for planning fire management operations in many regions of the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Phipps
This section of Silvics of North America: Volume 2, Hardwoods discusses habitat, climate, soils and topography, associated forest cover, life history, special uses, and genetics of balsam poplar.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Safford, Bjorkbom, Zasada
This section of Silvics of North America: Volume 2, Hardwoods discusses habitat, climate, soils and topography, associated forest cover, life history, special uses, and genetics of paper birch.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perala
Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed tree in North America. It is known by many names: trembling aspen, golden aspen, mountain aspen, popple, poplar, trembling poplar, and in Spanish, alamo blanco, and alamo temblon (49). It grows on many soil types…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nienstaedt, Zasada
White spruce (Picea glauca), also known as Canadian spruce, skunk spruce, cat spruce, Black Hills spruce, western white spruce, Alberta white spruce, and Porsild spruce, is adapted to a wide range of edaphic and climatic conditions of the Northern Coniferous Forest. The wood of…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Changes in solar radiation arising from changes in the orientation of the earth?s axis had pronounced effects on tropical monsoons and mid-latitude climates as well as on ice-sheet configuration during the last 18,000 years. COHMAP (Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project) has…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin
Holocene glacial fluctuations between Arctic, central interior, and southern maritime Alaska are broadly synchronous. This synchrony is evident from a review of work in 11 study areas with varying numbers of glaciers (3-100), glacier types (subpolar cirque, temperate valley,…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan
The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System does not work well in the humid environment of the Eastern United States. System modifications to correct problems and their operational impact on System users are described. A new set of 20 fuel models is defined and compared…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson, George
Laboratory studies of fire retardant corrosion have been conducted on four alloys commonly used in air and ground tankers and mixing plants. All currently used retardants met Forest Service specifications and requirements, but with considerable variations in performance.…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson
Major revisions to Rothermel's fire spread equations include the propagating flux rate, reaction velocity, and moisture damping coefficient. The reaction intensity is of the flames alone and specifically excludes energy derived from burning char whether or not it lies in the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blakely
Water alone was the principal agent reducing flaming combustion to smoldering combustion; adding chemical retardant contributed only a slight additional reduction. Water alone was significantly less effective than chemical mixtures in reducing final energy release rates and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Phillips, George, Nelson
Presents current (1988) fireline production rates for bulldozers, by size of machine, fuel type, slope, and site conditions. Includes nomograms and a master table for estimating production rates. Describes how data were collected and production rates were calculated.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Blakely
Four commercially available forest fire retardants were studied to quantify their capabilities for flammability reduction using standard laboratory conditions and procedures. All the retardants proved to be closely matched in reducing flammability.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Johnson
Describes procedures for applying the measured flow history of water or fire retardant from an airtanker and, with the aid of a model (PATSIM), developing a guide for attaining optimum retardant distribution from a specific airplane and tanking system. Text and drawings are…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Gehring
The corrosivity of long-term wildland fire retardants delivered by airtankers has been a continuing concern since the beginning of the retardant program in 1955. During the fall of 1986, the severity of corrosion was investigated at air-attack bases in Oregon, California, and…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
Fire propagation through arrays of vertically mounted fuel elements is considered. Simple experiments and the work of Vogel and Williams [1] suggests a geometrical model for fire propagation from one element of the array to another. The advantages of a geometrical model are that…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bradshaw
Although the primary use of RXWINDOW will be for prescribed fire planning, it has applications in other fire management activities where there is a need to relate potential fire behavior to environmental conditions. For example, RXWINDOW can be used on a wildfire to determine…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
A laboratory experiment was performed to determine the effect of slope on the downhill spread rate of forest fire. Results with beds of pine needles showed that the spread rate decreased to 64 percent of the level rate as slope was raised to 22 degrees, then gradually increased…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Small, Heikes
Fires simultaneously burning in hundreds of square kilometers could result from a nuclear weapon explosion. The strong buoyancy field of such large area fires induces high-velocity fire winds that turn upward in the burning region. This results in the vertical transport of a…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ochoa, Werth
[Excerpted from text] The growth of wildfires is related to three broad factors: fuel type, topography and weather. The National Fire Danger Rating System and the Fire Behavior Prediction System combine these factors to predict the probability and severity of wildland fires.…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES