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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cohen, Deeming
Updating the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) was completed in 1977, and operational use of it was begun the next year. The System provides a guide to wildfire control and suppression by its indexes that measure the relative potential of initiating fires. Such fires do…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine, Eiber
Weather data from Upsala and Atikokan, Ontario, were used to determine the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System values and to calculate the soil moisture for two soil types using the Thornthwaite water balance. The Duff Moisture Code and the Drought Code were found to give…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Van Wagner
The objective of this paper is to explain the distributions, assumptions, interpretations, and relationships of the two compatible, stochastic models of fire history: the negative exponential and the Weibull. For each model the 'fire interval' and 'time-since-fire' distributions…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chambers
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Auclair
Postfire recovery of biomass and soil organic pools was measured in a sequence of 10 subarctic lichen woodlands aged from 0 to 140 years. Less than one-tenth of total live biomasss combusted at the time of burning. Aboveground biomass combustion of species ranged from nil to…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Wein
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
An empirical relationship was derived between the ratio of total length to maximum width or breadth (L/B) of wind-driven forest fires on level terrain originating from a point source ignition and the international standard 10-m open wind (W). The relation is based on the wind…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen, Deeming
Updating the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) was completed in 1977, and operational use of it was begun the next year. The System provides a guide to wildfire control and suppression by its indexes that measure the relative potential of initiating fires. Such fires do…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fujioka
Estimating rate of fire spread is a key element in planning for effective fire control. Land managers use the Rothermel spread model, but the model assumptions are violated when fuel, weather, and topography are nonuniform. This paper compares three averaging techniques--…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Salazar
Stylized fuel models, or numerical descriptions of fuel arrays, are used as inputs to fire behavior simulation models. These fuel models are often chosen on the basis of generalized fuel descriptions, which are related to field observations. Site-specific observations of fuels…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
A simplified model for predicting total biomass consumption and particulate emission yield for slash burning in western Washington and western Oregon is developed by combining results from earlier studies by the Forest Fire and Atmospheric Sciences Research team. The model…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moeur
The COVER extension to the Stand Prognosis Model predicts tree canopy closure, crown volume, crown profile area, and foliage biomass within vertical height classes, and the probability of occurrence, height, and cover of shrubs in forest stands. The model may be used to produce…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ghan, MacCracken, Walton
An atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) has been initialized with a 150 Tg summertime injection of smoke from post-war fires over Europe, Asia and North America. The smoke is subject to large-scale and convectice transport, dry deposition, coagulation and precipitation…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Van Wagner
The objective of this paper is to explain the distributions, assumptions, interpretations, and relationships of the two compatible, stochastic models of fire history: the negative exponential and the Weibull. For each model the 'fire interval' and 'time-since-fire' distributions…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES