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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
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Ball
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
Fine forest fuels, such as grasses, hardwood leaves, and conifer needles, vary greatly in response times and mean moisture diffusion coefficients when exposed to desorption and adsorption conditions. Results are reported for tests made with recently dead and weathered dead fine…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Young, Ogg, Dotray
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stevens
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heikes, Ransohoff, Small
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey, Irving, Fitzgerald
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
From the introduction: The Keetch-Byram Drought Index or KBDI has been or is still being used as a guide for estimating the cumulative moisture deficiency in deep duff or upper soil layers. Such information is needed for planning fire management operations in many regions of the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blatternberger, Hyde, Mills
In the past, decisionmaking in wildland fire management generally has not included a full consideration of the risk and uncertainty that is inherent in evaluating alternatives. Fire management policies in some Federal land management agencies now require risk evaluation. The…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Phipps
This section of Silvics of North America: Volume 2, Hardwoods discusses habitat, climate, soils and topography, associated forest cover, life history, special uses, and genetics of balsam poplar.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Safford, Bjorkbom, Zasada
This section of Silvics of North America: Volume 2, Hardwoods discusses habitat, climate, soils and topography, associated forest cover, life history, special uses, and genetics of paper birch.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perala
Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed tree in North America. It is known by many names: trembling aspen, golden aspen, mountain aspen, popple, poplar, trembling poplar, and in Spanish, alamo blanco, and alamo temblon (49). It grows on many soil types…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nienstaedt, Zasada
White spruce (Picea glauca), also known as Canadian spruce, skunk spruce, cat spruce, Black Hills spruce, western white spruce, Alberta white spruce, and Porsild spruce, is adapted to a wide range of edaphic and climatic conditions of the Northern Coniferous Forest. The wood of…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ellis, Calkin
The central Brooks Range was glacierized in the highest, north-facing cirques during late-middle to late Holocene (Neoglacial) time. This Neoglaciation involved at least 5 major cirque-glacier expansions of similar magnitude, as based on lichenometric mapping of more than 50…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schneider, Gudgel-Holmes, Dalle-Molle
The overall goal of this project is to provide park managers with information useful in understanding the land uses of the north additions. The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) (Public Law 96-487, December 2, 1980) added additions to the former Mount…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, George
Laboratory studies of fire retardant corrosion have been conducted on four alloys commonly used in air and ground tankers and mixing plants. All currently used retardants met Forest Service specifications and requirements, but with considerable variations in performance.…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson
Major revisions to Rothermel's fire spread equations include the propagating flux rate, reaction velocity, and moisture damping coefficient. The reaction intensity is of the flames alone and specifically excludes energy derived from burning char whether or not it lies in the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blakely
Water alone was the principal agent reducing flaming combustion to smoldering combustion; adding chemical retardant contributed only a slight additional reduction. Water alone was significantly less effective than chemical mixtures in reducing final energy release rates and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Susott
Differential scanning calorimetry has been applied to three woody laboratory fuels studied in current wildland fire modeling research. The heat required to increase a fuel's temperature to ignition is an important modeling parameter affecting the rate of fire spread. Below 200Â…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Johnson
Describes procedures for applying the measured flow history of water or fire retardant from an airtanker and, with the aid of a model (PATSIM), developing a guide for attaining optimum retardant distribution from a specific airplane and tanking system. Text and drawings are…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips, Barney
Provides tables and performance curves for estimating rates of fireline construction for bulldozers built between 1965 and 1983. Data are derived from productivity indexes furnished by bulldozer manufacturers and have not been confirmed by field trials. Construction rates are…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
Fire propagation through arrays of vertically mounted fuel elements is considered. Simple experiments and the work of Vogel and Williams [1] suggests a geometrical model for fire propagation from one element of the array to another. The advantages of a geometrical model are that…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chase
Extends equations for calculating the maximum spot fire distance to include wind-driven fires burning in surface fuels as a firebrand source. Predictions are based upon prevailing windspeed, vegetational cover, and local terrain. The equations can be used on a programmable…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bradshaw
Although the primary use of RXWINDOW will be for prescribed fire planning, it has applications in other fire management activities where there is a need to relate potential fire behavior to environmental conditions. For example, RXWINDOW can be used on a wildfire to determine…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
Aerial ignition devices are being used which can start fires by a succession of point sources or by a line of fire. Through the use of these devices, the fire manager has considerable control of the fire situation. Control of the ultimate fire behavior depends on the ignition…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS