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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Philpot
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney, Berglund
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavdas
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavdas
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McMahon
The history of the Clean Air Act is reviewed from 1955 to 1980. The 1980 Visibility Regulation is cited as the first federal clean air policy which specifically addresses prescribed burning. Thirty-six states containing National Parks and Wilderness areas are now required to…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bell, Beckett, Hubbard
This review summarizes the available literature relevant to British Columbia concerning the influences of harvesting and post-harvest practices upon the forest environment and resources, and points out significant gaps in knowledge where research would be useful. This will aid…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delichatsios
It is shown that similarity solutions in strong buoyant plumes (plant or axisymmetric) exist if a local characteristic turbulent diffusion coefficient varies inversely proportional to the square of the local gas density in the plume. The similarity formulation implies that the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogers, Hudson, Kocmond
Measurements of cloud condensation nuclei were made from small samples of stratospheric air taken from a U-2 aircraft at altitudes ranging from 13 to 19 kilometers. The measured concentrations of nuclei both in and outside the plume from the May and June 1980 eruptions of Mount…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cooper
Prescribed burning is a preferred treatment in many fuel management situations because of its low cost, campatibility with other land-use objectives, and little or not undesirable side effects. The problems, limitations, and associated consequences of fire treatments are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garmon
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer
Experimental, free-burning wood fires larger than 5 ha were similar in convection column volume after the initial buoyant, ring-vortex rose from the ground. The fire generated strong vorticity patterns which propagated upward into the convection column. The rotation suppressed…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Mara
Animal exposure studied and large scale fire data indicate that one of the early life hazards in a developing fire is from the generation of carbon monoxide and other combustion gases. A gas chromatograph as been interfaced to an NBS Smoke Chamber to study the rate of generation…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ward
In this paper, the impact on air quality of prescribed fire for weed control is described, and management opportunities to control air pollution are discussed.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bankston, Zinn, Browner, Powell
This paper is concerned with the investigation of the detailed aspects of smoke generation during the burning of natural and synthetic solid materials under simulated fire conditions. With this objective in mind, the first portion of the paper is devoted to a review of relevant…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney, Berglund
Records of 21 stations were analyzed for the occurrence, persistence, and related visibility resulting from summertime wildfire smoke and haze in interior Alaska. Maximum probability of smoke occurrence for any station and month was 8.7 percent in July for Bettles. Seasonal…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
[From the text] Fire has been an integral part of America's wildlands for millions of years. The only environments not experiencing fire as a significant ecological factor were those that remained very cold, very wet, or very dry, and even in these regions, extreme variation in…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arianoutsou, Margaris
After a fire in a phryganic ecosystem, the nutreint losses in above-ground plant biomass, in nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) were quantitatively different. The most important is that of nitrogen (96%), followed by magnesium (59%),…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brustet, Benech, Waldteufel
The possibility of applying infrared imagery to the study of a large, hot plume materialized by carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of fuel oil is investigated. In a specific case (the PROSERPINE experiment), due to the high carbon particle content, the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schaeffer
From the text ... 'The smoke rising from a grass, brush or forest fire is primarily formed by the condensation of moisture and other vapors produced through pyrolysis and combustion. This smoke formation depends on the rate at which the surrounding air moves into the fire to…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS