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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Topic

Year

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Predicting slash depth for fire modeling

Albini, Brown
Development of equations for prediciting fuel bed depth (called 'bulk depth' herein) appropriate for modeling fire behavior in slash is described. Bulk depth (y) was correlated with the expected number of 1/4-to 1-inch-diameter particle intercepts per foot of vertical plane…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wood-based paneling as thermal barriers

White
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire management: a state of the art review and bibliography

Baumgartner, Simard
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biosocial systems analysis: an approach for assessing the consequences for resource policies

Bonnicksen, Lee
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

New system developed for appraising wildfire effects

Baumgartner, Gorte
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting prescribed burning costs of wildlife habitat management

Jackson, Flowers, Loveless, Schuster
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The dilemma of flame length and intensity

Johnson
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weather in wildland fire management: the fire weather index

Fosberg
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire zones on a mountain ridge

Furman
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Horizontal roll vortices and crown fires

Haines
Observational evidence form nine crown fires suggests that horizontal roll vortices are a major mechanism in crown-fire spread. Post-burn aerial photography indicates that unburned tree-crown streets are common with crown fire. Investigation of the understory of these crown…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Resource values in analyzing fire management programs for economic efficiency

Althaus, Mills
In analyzing fire management programs for their economic efficiency, it is necessary to assign monetary values to the changes in resource outputs caused by fire. The derivation of resource values is complicated by imperfect or nonexistent commericial market structures. The…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rates of spread of wildfire in Alaskan fuels

Barney, Noste, Wilson
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A statistical analysis of the frequency of lightning-caused forest fires

Marsden
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Response of free-burning fires to nonsteady wind

Albini
A speculative, phenomenological model is formulated for the time-varying intensity and spread rate of a free-burning fire under the influence of nonsteady wind. The model is linearized by approximations and explicit solutions derived for the amplitude response of spread rate and…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire in America: a cultural history of wildland and rural fire

Pyne
From the book jacket...'From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen J. Pyne's narrative explores the efforts of sucessive American cultures to master this forbidding kind of fire and to use it to shape the landscape. He draws not only on academic experience…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

AIRPRO: an air tanker productivity computer simulation model: the equations (summary)

Simard, Young
From the Introduction: 'AIRPRO is a simulation model designed for computer implementation. Its purpose is to simulate the use of air tankers in wildland fire suppression operations. The model can be used to analyze a wide variety of questions with respect to air tanker systems,…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

AIRPRO: an air tanker productivity computer simulation model: application

Simard, Young, Redmond
This report discusses the application of results generated by AIRPRO to specific air tanker problems in the Province of New Brunswick. First, the fire environment of the province is described, followed by an overview of the current air tanker system. The effectiveness of the S2D…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire history and its role in succession

Martin
Fire occurs at various intervals in differnet vegetation types. Intervals between fires are longer in warm, dry sites where small amount of fuel limits fire spread and in cool, wet sites where burning conditions are limiting despite the large amount of fuel. The shortest fire…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Evaluating potential tree mortality from prescribed burning

Ryan
Prescribed burning is increasingly being used under standing timber for site preparation and fuels management. Managers need guidelines for determining species and individual tree characteristics that are potentially capable of incurring minimal injury from a fire treatment. A…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Equilibrium and actual evapotranspiration from a very dry vegetated surface

Williams, Broersma, Van Ryswyk
Energy balance measurements of evapotranspiration from very dry seeded rangeland grass (Agropyron desertorum) near Kamloops, British Columbia, are compared with daily equilibrium evapotranspiration estimates. The equilibrium model was found to seriously overestimate…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulation models to improve knowledge of the dynamics of forest fires

Calliari, Cantiani
An experimental model is described for simulating the dynamics of the initial phase of a forest fire in a conifer stand with a wind blowing persistently in the same direction. It is shown that the characteristic burns on the bark at the base of the stem make it possible to…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The use of historical fire weather data for prescribed burn planning

Martell
An interactive computer program that can be used to analyse historical fire weather data and determine how frequently specific prescribed burn fire weather prescriptions have occured in the past is described. The Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada.…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Note on the use of Weibull statistics to characterize wind-speed data

Takle, Brown
A hybrid density function is given for describing wind-speed distributions having nonzero probability of "calm.” A Weibull probability graph paper designed specifically for plotting wind-speed distributions is used to determine distribution parameters to within a few percent of…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Airpro, An air tanker productivity computer simulation model, validation

Simard, Young, Redmond
This report describes procedures used to validate AIRPRO - an air tanker productivity computer simulation model. It begins by discussing the general concept of validation and listing specific producedures that can be used to test models. The supportive components of AIRPRO are…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Production rates for crews using hand tools on firelines

Haven, Hunter, Storey
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS