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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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"Mounting the Attack on Wildfire" is a 18-minute video produced in 1987 by the Canadian Forest Service that offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project conducted with the Alberta Forest Service at Big Fish Lake in north-central Alberta during the mid to…
Year: 1987
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pauly
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Salih, Taha, Payne
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lawson
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Davis
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Furman, Helfman
FIRDAT is a FORTRAN IV program to compute the daily components and indexes of the National Fire-Danger Rating System. FIRDAT will also compute and print the absolute, relative and cumulative frequencies of occurrence, and print a cumulative frequency distribution for each of the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, Flannigan
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Lanoville
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cunningham, Martell
This paper discusses the occurrence of man-caused forest fires during the summer fire season in a section of northwestern Ontario. Fire occurrence is viewed as being a chance process and a stochastic model is developed to describe it. The results of this study indicate that a…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Broccoli, Manabe
The contributions of expanded continental ice, reduced atmospheric carbon dioxide, and changes in land albedo to the maintenance of the climate of the last glacial maximum (LGM) are examined. A series of experiments is performed using an atmosphere-mixed layer ocean model in…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morris
Summarizes past efforts to model fire spotting from wildland fires. Explains how Albini's spotting model for wind-driven surfaces was simplified with no loss in accuracy and the resulting model implemented in the BEHAVE fire prediction and fire modeling computer system and on…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fischer
This paper provides criteria for proper use of instrument shelters and suggests installation of additional special purpose shelters for other than temperature-recording instruments.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines, Smith
Observation shows that three types of horizontal vortices may form during intense wildland fires. Two of these vortices are longitudinal relative to the ambient wind and the third is transverse. One of the longitudinal types, a vortex pair, occurs with extreme heat and low to…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bennett, Brode, Dicke, Eskridge, Garrison, Irwin, Koerber, Lockhart, Method, Perkins, Wilson
(Adapted from preface) Document provided EPA guidance on collection and use of on-site meteorological data for regulatory modelling applications.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simard, Donoghue
Describes, from a historical perspective, methods used to characterize fire prevention problems and evaluate prevention programs and discusses past research efforts to bolster these analytical and management efforts. Highlights research on the sociological perspectives of the…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg
Future improvements in the meteorological forecasts used in fire management will come from improvements in three areas: observational systems, forecast techniques, and postprocessing of forecasts and better integration of this information into the fire management process.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Warren
Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) were introduced to Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management field units in 1978 following development, test, and evaluation activities conducted jointly by the two agencies. The original configuration was designed for semi-permanent…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tokle
In the year 2025, wildland fire fighting practices have improved significantly over the method employed during the late 1900's. Improved methods for predicting severe fire weather conditions, the establishment of the North American Fire Coordination Center, and the utilization…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
A relation between fire behavior and crown scorch height is derived from measurements on 13 experimental outdoor fires. The range of data includes fire intensities from 16 to 300 kcal/s-m, and scorch heights from 2 to 17 m. The results agree with established theory that scorch…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
A computer program assembled for the Hewlett-Packard 9800/Model 20 is presented for calculating the rate of fire spread according to Rothermel's fire spread model.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Armstrong, Vines
Weather trends have been determined from an analysis of long-term rainfall records for towns in the southern part of Canada. The incidence of forest fires in the provinces correlates well with the approximately periodic 'drought patterns' in these areas. Though there are few…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Armstrong
Spontaneous combustion is thought to be a cause of many of the fires which occur in areas such as peat bogs or dry snags. The theories of spontaneous heating are presented, along with a discussion of possible ignition mechanisms in both wood-chip and hay fires. The physical…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney, Berglund
A summary of climatic data during the 1968-71 growing seasons is presented for the subarctic Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest located near Fairbanks, Alaska. Data were obtained from three weather station sites at elevations of 1,650, 1,150, and 550 feet from May until September…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney, Comiskey
Existing records show that five wildfires burned more than 1,600 hectares of tundra on Alaska's Arctic Slope. Environmental conditions suitable for lightning, ignition, and burning occur more often than previously recognized at this northern latitude.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
Following a prescribed fire, structural effects were measured over a 4-year postfire period. Initial tree mortality was concentrated in small diameter and height classes of Abies concolor (Gord. And Glend) Lindl., Pinus lambertiana Dougl., and Pinus ponderosa Dougl. Most…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES