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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bishop, Armbruster
We compared the thermoregulatory capabilities of tropical and subarctic bees to determine whether bees from higher latitudes have greater thermoregulatory capabilities. The data indicate that thermoregulatory capability is a function of size and wing loading, and there is no…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bessie, Johnson
Surface fire intensity (kW m[-1]) and crown fire initiation were predicted using Rothermel's (1972) and Van Wagner's (1977) models, with fuel data from 47 subalpine conifer stands and 35 years of daily weather (moisture contents and windspeeds). Rothermel's intensity equations…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gutsell, Johnson
We have constructed a model for the transient heating of cones showing that there is a logarithmic relationship between the time (sec) to cone opening (releasing viable seeds) or cone ignition and temperature (°K) in the convective column above a fire. The slope of the curve is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heard
Larvae of the midge Metriocnemus knabi and of the mosquito Wyeomyia smithii feed on decaying invertebrate carcasses inside the water-filled leaves of the purple pitcher plant. I examined the interaction between these two species in natural populations in Gros Morne National Park…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hopkins, Miyanishi
Prescribed burning is being used at Pinery Provincial Park in southern Ontario to restore an oak savanna community which has been changing into a closed oak woodland due to a past policy of fire suppression and conifer reforestation. Quercus muehlenbergii, a shade-intolerant…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen, MacDonald
To determine whether there are persistent differences in fire frequency in Picea glauca and Pinus banksiana forests, we examine dendrochronological and palynological records of fire history. The time since the last fire at 165 stands located in Wood Buffalo National Park (44,807…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tyler, D'Antonio
In circumstances where species vie for limited resources, disturbance can preclude competition by lowering population densities and thereby relieving pressure on resources. For that reason, competition is believed to be unimportant in the establishment of plant seedlings…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Silversides
'Although the cup anemometer, widely used in forest meteorology, has certain faults (Middleton and Spilhaus, 1953: `Meteorological Instruments', Univ. of Toronto Press), its basic properties such as simplicity of design, ease of fabrication, ruggedness, good sensitivity and…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierovich
'We have read the recent review article 'Primary and Secondary Particulates as Pollutants' by P. F. Fennelly with considerable interest, but yet, concern. Our interest is based on an awareness of the need to examine particulate pollution in terms of particle size and chemical…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Herrman, Uman, Brantley, Krider
The principle of operation of a wideband crossed loop magnetic-field direction finder is studied by comparing the bearing determined from the NS and EW magnetic fields at various times up to 155 mu-s after return stroke initiation with the TV-determined lightning channel base…
Year: 1976
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
Fosberg, Fox, Howard, Cohen
Mass divergence influences on plume dispersion modify classic Gaussian calculations by as much as a factor of two in complex terrain. The Gaussian plume was derived in flux form to include this process.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch
In summary, there are some individuals who see prescribed fire, especially wilderness fires, as a threat to the fire prevention program. Others are equally frustrated because they feel the simplistic message of Smokey is in opposition to, or makes it more difficult to achieve,…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling
The recent discovery of Spiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak at several locations in southwestern Ontario extends its known range significantly in the Northeast. Described in 1973, this orchid was previously known from the midwestern United States, reaching its northeastern limit at…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adkins, Clements
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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
Kilgore
[no description entered]
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
Cunningham, Martell
This paper addresses the problem of predicting forest fire occurrence. A simple methodology is developed to elicit information, from experienced fire managers, for deriving subjective probability assessments concerning the number of fires that will be reported in their districts…
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
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
Klukas
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS