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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Blakely
Proposes a method for quantifying the fire-extinguishing capabilities of plain water and water with thickeners and fire-retarding chemicals added. Flaming pine needle fuel beds were sprayed with different water/chemical combinations while energy release rates were continuously…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Johnson
Updates data (Research Note INT-91) for measuring viscosity of fire retardants in the field by means of the Marsh Funnel. New data cover Tenogum and gum-thickened Fire-Trol 931. Data for Gelgard (no longer available) have been dropped.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stockstad
Spontaneous and piloted ignition of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) stems were investigated in an isothermal atmosphere. Three levels of sample moisture content were tested and minimum heat flux intensities required to produce ignition, times to ignition, and surface…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Before a wildland fire can start, heat must be transferred from a firebrand to the fuel. Then heat must be transferred from the fuel surface to deeper layers if the fire is to continue to burn. Finally, heat must be transferred to surrounding unburned fuel if the fire is to…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Wildland fire is dependent on heat transfer. For a fire to start, heat must be transferred from a firebrand to the fuel. If the fire is to burn and grow, heat transfer to the unburned fuel around the fire must continue. The way a fire burns and behaves is closely related to the…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Heat, or thermal energy, is one of the three ingredients essential to fire-the other two are oxygen and fuel. Enough oxygen for fire is almost always available in wildlands, and fuel is usually plentiful. But the mere presence of a heat source does not necessarily result in a…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
This document comprises a reference manual for computer programs (FIREMODS) pertaining to wildfire behavior and its effects, maintained by the Fire Fundamental research work unit, Northern Forest Fire Laboratory, Missoula, Montana. The subroutines embody mathematical models that…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fujioka
Estimating rate of fire spread is a key element in planning for effective fire control. Land managers use the Rothermel spread model, but the model assumptions are violated when fuel, weather, and topography are nonuniform. This paper compares three averaging techniques--…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Anderson, Hoover, Reinhart
From the background of more than 100 years' collective experience in watershed research and from comprehensive review of the literature of forest hydrology, the authors summarize what is known about the forest's influence on the water resource, particularly the effects of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin, Pendleton, Burgess
Burning rates of Douglas fir wood were measured using crosspiled sticks 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, and 1 in. (0.64, 1.27, 1.90, and 2.54 cm) in cross-sectional dimensions. Burning was 1.4 to 4.2 times as fast with the whirlwind as without.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This publication provides guidelines for planning and managing smoke from prescribed firs to achieve air quality requirements through improved smoke management practices. The guide focuses on national smoke management principles; however, for maximum use and effectiveness, local…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Pickford
Our paper points out certain problems in current predictive methods on which most smoke management programs are based. These problems complicate research efforts to improve predictability of air quality impacts of forest burning. In addition, we offer a hypothesis, based on…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ward, McMahon, Johansen
Recent estimates of particulate production from forest fires in the United States have ranged from 500,000 to 54,000,000 tons annually. This has been due partly to disparities in estimates of fuel that is consumed during the combustion process, but more to the choice of emission…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mallory, Van Meter
Chemicals from glowing fires in highly decayed conifer logs may be useful for detection of small fires by spectroscopic methods. Two major chemical constituents were tentatively identified as methanol and furfural (2-furaldehyde). Additional materials tentatively identified were…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Salazar
Stylized fuel models, or numerical descriptions of fuel arrays, are used as inputs to fire behavior simulation models. These fuel models are often chosen on the basis of generalized fuel descriptions, which are related to field observations. Site-specific observations of fuels…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tangren
The author discusses the inadequacies and limitations of the term 'fire intensity' as it is used to describe the severity of forest fires and suggests that the term 'fire front power' is more appropriate.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frost, Haines
Describes how to build a housing for the balance used to weigh fuel moisture sticks. The housing is easy to build, low-cost, and can be mounted on the supports of the standard cotton region shelter.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
A keynote speaker has a unique advantage. Somewhat like a historian, he can look backward in time and also discuss the present. Unlike the historian, he may also point to the future. A keynote speaker also can ramble more or less all over the countryside. He doesn't have to have…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A compilation of 11 papers in which authorities discuss the impacts of fire on wildlife habitat and wildlife populations. Presentations cover bobwhite quail, nongame birds, white-tailed deer, bighorn and Stone's sheep; and the response to burning of curlleaf cercocarpus, aspen,…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sirois, Stokes
ANNOTATION: This paper presents an overview of sources and forms of raw materials for wood energy use and the types of machines available to convert them to the desired form for boiler fuel. Both the fuel source or raw material, and the combustion furnace will dictate the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
A simplified model for predicting total biomass consumption and particulate emission yield for slash burning in western Washington and western Oregon is developed by combining results from earlier studies by the Forest Fire and Atmospheric Sciences Research team. The model…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
Description not entered.
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moeur
The COVER extension to the Stand Prognosis Model predicts tree canopy closure, crown volume, crown profile area, and foliage biomass within vertical height classes, and the probability of occurrence, height, and cover of shrubs in forest stands. The model may be used to produce…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Buskirk
Description not entered.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fritts
[Description from Elsevier website] Tree Rings and Climate deals with the principles of dendrochronology, with emphasis on tree-ring studies involving climate-related problems. This book looks at the spatial and temporal variations in tree-ring growth and how they can be used to…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES