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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ascher, Alexander
This videotape production (1987, 18 min) offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project being conducted at Big Fish Lake in northcentral Alberta since 1984 by Forestry Canada and the Alberta Forest Service (AFS).
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg
[no description entered]
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sims
[no description entered]
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg, Marlatt, Krupnak
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak, Reifsnyder
Fifty-two major wildland fires in the eastern half of the United States were analyzed to determine the synoptic situations involved. At the surface, 3/4 of the fires were found near frontal areas. The vast majority of fires were associated with the eastern portion of small…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine
The Drought Code component of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System is an indicator of long term drought and the associated impact on forest fire management. The Drought Code has definite seasonal trends, which can make interpretation of the current daily value difficult…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
The program RXWINDOW is intended to help fire managers develop prescription windows based on desired fire behavior. It is the fifth program in the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. It reverses calculations found elsewhere in BEHAVE. In RXWINDOW, the user…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson
Major revisions to Rothermel's fire spread equations include the propagating flux ratio, 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: TTRS
Donaldson, Paul
This user's guide is an introductory manual for using the 1988 version (Burgan 1988) of the National Fire-Danger Rating System on an IBM PC or compatible computer. NFDRSPC is a window-oriented, interactive computer program that processes observed and forecast weather with fuels…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cooper
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nickey
A computer simulation model of lightning fire discoveries has been developed by analyzing historical records of lightning fire occurrences. The model is being tested by using reports of lightning fires from four national forests. Results to date suggest that statistical…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feunekes, Methven, Mann
Deployment, manning, and dispatching are geographically driven activities that respond to geographically based phenomena changes in fire weather, fire danger, and potential fire behavior. Information systems or decision-aids designed to support the above activities should…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lanoville, Mawdsley
The Forest Fire Preparedness (FFP) System currently used in the Northwest Territories is presented to illustrate a procedure to systematically assess daily fire preparedness requirements. The FFP System consists of four major modules: fire weather elements, the Canadian Forest…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee
This paper reports on the development of the Intelligent Fire Management Information System (IFMIS), a computer program for dispatching fire suppression resources to wildfires. The program uses a number of advanced concepts to provide information to fire managers for both…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder
At the request of the World Meteorological Organization, a hierarchical system for rating forest fire danger was developed. The system uses generally available meteorological measurements to evaluate the flammability of wildland fuels anywhere in the world. The basic framework…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noggle, Krider, Vance, Barker
A new type of lightning direction-finding system is described which detects primarily discharges to ground and which discriminates against intracloud discharges and background noise. Ground discharges are selected by requiring the wideband magnetic waveforms to have rise times,…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baughman, Fuquay, Mielke
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deeming
Extensive use of the 1972 version of the National Fire-Danger Rating System has pointed up deficiencies that the 1978 update is expected to correct. Eighteen fuel models will be provided as well as a completely overhauled fire occurrence module. The system will respond to longer…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bjornsen
There are five principle categories of fire management planning which have meteorological needs; many of them common. Meteorological data is essential to execution of fire plans. The data, historical and forecasted, is an integral part of each fire plan. There is shared…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barkow
Fire is becoming recognized as a major issue throughout the North American continent. The last several years have seen major fire seasons in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. There are five areas where an international approach to fire management will be useful. Technology…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan
Seasonal changes in day length and solar radiation intensity at three latitudes influenced the Man-Caused Ignition Component, the Energy Release Component, and the Burning Index of the National Fire-Danger Rating System. Seasonal effects for the Energy Release Component are…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Eenigenburg
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
Fine forest fuels, such as grasses, hardwood leaves, and conifer needles, vary greatly in response times and mean moisture diffusion coefficients when exposed to desorption and adsorption conditions. Results are reported for tests made with recently dead and weathered dead fine…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stevens
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS