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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
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
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
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
Description not entered.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norris, Friedman, Watson, Byrne, Diaz, Kaniasty
Results for 160 samples of disaster victims were coded as to sample type, disaster type, disaster location, outcomes and risk factors observed, and overall severity of impairment. In order of frequency, outcomes included specific psychological problems, nonspecific distress,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reynolds
The purpose of this course is to introduce the reader to communication principles and tools as they relate to what we have called emergency risk communication. The principles in this course borrow from (1) font of classical rhetoricians, (2) wealth of modern crisis, issues…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Houze, Jr.
Cloud dynamics
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
Published data on two sets of experimental fires in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) forest were subjected to two forms of analysis. The first was a classification into surface fires and two kinds of crown fire, passive and active. In the second, the data were used to develop a…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Etling, Brown
Roll vortices may be loosely defined as quasi two-dimensional organized large eddies with their horizontal axis extending through the whole planetary boundary layer (PBL). Their indirect manifestation is most obvious in so-called cloud streets as can be seen in numerous…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reed, McKelvey
This paper examines the distribution of areas burned in forest fires. Empirical size distributions, derived from extensive fire records, for six regions in North America are presented. While they show some commonalities, it appears that a simple power-law distribution of sizes,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rains, Hubbard
In August 2000, the Administration directed the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to prepare a report that would recommend how best to respond to the year's severe wildland fires, reduce the impacts of fires on rural communities, and ensure sufficient firefighting…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Abt, Holmes
ANNOTATION: This paper outlines a Joint Fire Science Program funded study, 'A national study of the economic impacts of biomass removals to mitigate wildfire damages on federal, state, and private lands.' The study involves using the treatment-product and cost information…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stokes, McDonald, Kelley
ANNOTATION: High transport costs are a factor to consider in the use of forest residues for fuel. Costs can be reduced by increasing haul capacities, reducing high moisture contents, and improving trucking efficiency. The literature for transpirational drying and the economics…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bain, Overend
ANNOTATION: Bain and Overend provide a national history of biomass used for energy, a brief market and supply analysis, and a current status of technology. They additionally identify research needs. ABSTRACT: Biomass is the single largest source of non-hydro renewable…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Badger
ANNOTATION: The purpose of this study was to identify and characterize all the receiving, handling, storing, and processing steps required to make woody biomass feedstocks suitable for use in direct combustion and gasification applications, including small modular biopower (SMB…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Storrar
An objective of the soil research program has been to measure forest soil erodibility for erosion prediction. Gathering the data is challenging because samples have to be collected onsite under actual field conditions. These conditions include sites before and after timber…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lisle, Luce, Ziemer, May
Wildfire poses special problems for land-use planners. Responses to fire must be planned in a short period immediately after a fire, relying heavily on information compiled before the extent and severity of the actual fire is known. Secondly, it has been difficult to learn from…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Ferguson, Speers-Hayes
Unpublished final report to the USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Native village of Tanacross is in the Tanana River valley in Alaska's interior region. Surrounded by a dense stand of white spruce pole timber with transition to dense black spruce it was at risk for crown-type fires. In 2001, a unique approach to reduce wildfire threat and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES