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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Prentice
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vines
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCutchan
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Riedman
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak, Reifsnyder
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Potter, Zerbe
From the Summary (p.697-698) ... 'Given the importance of wildfires in the south-central and southeastern United States, as reflected in the yearly totals of wildfire numbers and hectares burned, there is a need to better understand the potential ramifications of a changed…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Flannigan, Wotton, Suffling
The predicted increase in climate warming will have profound impacts on forest ecosystems and landscapes in Canada because of increased temperature, and altered disturbance regimes. Climate change is predicted to be variable within Canada, and to cause considerable weather…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Makarim, Arbai, Deddy, Brady
The report describes the 1997 land and forest fires in Indonesia, reviews of the control measures put in place and evaluates the national coordination efforts taken to combat the fires as the dry period extended toward what became a serious drought. A key finding is that…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williamson, Agee
Poster abstract...Riparian vegetation is often assumed to be less flammable than upland vegetation in evaluations of fire hazard in the eastern Cascades and Blue Mountains. However, the complex multi-layered structure and high proportion of fire-sensitive species within riparian…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster, Knight, Franklin
We review and compare well-studied examples of five large, infrequent disturbances (LIDs)--fire, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and floods--in terms of the physical processes involved, the damage patterns they create in forested landscapes, and the potential impacts…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paine, Tegner, Johnson
All species have evolved in the presence of disturbance, and thus are in a sense matched to the recurrence pattern of the perturbations. Consequently, disturbances within the typical range, even at the extreme of that range as defined by large, infrequent disturbances (LIDs),…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, Weir
Mimicking of natural disturbance for ecosystem management requires an understanding of the disturbance processes and the resulting landscape patterns. Since fire is the major disturbance in the boreal forest, three widely held beliefs about fire behavior and resulting landscape…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knapp
The spatial and temporal occurrence of large grassland fires (>2008 ha) in the Intermountain West was examined for the period 1980 through 1995. Results suggest that these fires are largely predictable through space and time. Of the 360 large fires, 339 occurred within eight…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Archibold, Nelson, Ripley, Delanoy
Temperatures during prescribed spring burns were monitored for selected mixed prairie plant communities near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In fescue, spear grass, and brome communities the fires peaked quickly at an average maximum temperature of approximately 500oC, then reverted to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gurd, Nudds
In the boreal forest, fires, insect outbreaks, and severe weather are thought to be the main disturbance sources which revert late successional forests to earlier stages. At the landscape scale, these disturbance processes create a habitat mosaic which supports many types of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Williams
Increased use of prescribed fire requires an expansion of the current capabilities of decision support systems. In this paper we describe influencing factors that must be included to assess potential fire severity and risk of escape of prescribed fire, capabilities and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alvarado, Sandberg, Pickford
[no description entered]
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A method is presented for computing fine fuel moisture content at hourly intervals around the clock. It is derived from the standard daily Fine Fuel Moisture Code used in the Canadian system of forest fire danger rating. It produces diurnal cycles of fuel moisture content that…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler
No abstract
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson
From the text... 'The data in these tables and in the two additional tables listing "near-fatal” fires (Tables 3 and 4) help demystify these related fire types. It is possible to identify some common denominators of fire behavior in both fatal and near-fatal fires. It should be…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacPherson, Isaac
The turbulent characteristics of 17 Canadian cumulus clouds have been documented using the measurements from a specially instrumented T-33 aircraft. Most of the 33 cloud penetrations were made through the tops of cumuli 1—4.5 km in depth. Turbulent energy spectra over a range of…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Isaac, Schemenauer, Crozier, Chisholm, MacPherson, Bobbitt, MacHattie
A cloud seeding technique is proposed which has the objective of stimulating rainfall from cumulus clouds drifting over forest fires. Preliminary tests of the ice crystal production capability of the cloud seeding technique were conducted on five cumulus clouds near Yellowknife…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartigan
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dorrer
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Cohen, Deeming
This publication contains instructions for manually calculating the indexes and components of the 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS). The procedures are explained with worked examples. Working sets of nomograms for the 20 NFDRS fuel models are not included. However…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS