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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Countryman
'Humidity' is an eight-letter word that is heard around fire camps and on the fireline almost as often as the more widely known four-letter words. Most firefighters know that humidity has something to do with moisture in the air. If it is low, they expect difficulty in…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy
What materials will emerge from todays research ideas to become the commonly accepted building products of 2020? What will durable materials look like in 2020? This paper attempts to address these questions by considering some current trends and then presenting a series of ideas…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, Weise, Mackes, Dibble
As part of efforts to address fire problems in the wildland-urban interface, the cone calorimeteris being used to measure the relative flammability of different plant species. In the first twostudies, we tested plants used to landscape homes in California and an assortment of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wade, Brenner
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norris, Friedman, Watson, Byrne, Diaz, Kaniasty
Results for 160 samples of disaster victims were coded as to sample type, disaster type, disaster location, outcomes and risk factors observed, and overall severity of impairment. In order of frequency, outcomes included specific psychological problems, nonspecific distress,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reynolds
The purpose of this course is to introduce the reader to communication principles and tools as they relate to what we have called emergency risk communication. The principles in this course borrow from (1) font of classical rhetoricians, (2) wealth of modern crisis, issues…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuettner
It is now well known that parallel cloud bands are widespread in the earth's atmosphere. Observations from manned and unmanned spacecraft and from high-altitude aircraft in connection with soundings from ships and ground stations have shed light on their origin. These and a…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wood, Blackshear, Jr., Eckert
Quantitative experimental measurements include burning rate, wick temperature distribution, and flame radiation heat flux distributions to the fuel surface as a function of time after ignition. The radiation heat flux is measured with four radiometers which view the flame from…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reed, McKelvey
This paper examines the distribution of areas burned in forest fires. Empirical size distributions, derived from extensive fire records, for six regions in North America are presented. While they show some commonalities, it appears that a simple power-law distribution of sizes,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kourtz, O'Regan
A computer-based model of a small smouldering or creeping forest fire has been designed to simulate burned and burning areas of a fire at any time after ignition. The model assumes that a fire spreads in a grid whose squares are homogeneous fuel types. The arrangement of fuel…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rains, Hubbard
In August 2000, the Administration directed the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to prepare a report that would recommend how best to respond to the year's severe wildland fires, reduce the impacts of fires on rural communities, and ensure sufficient firefighting…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Abt, Holmes
ANNOTATION: This paper outlines a Joint Fire Science Program funded study, 'A national study of the economic impacts of biomass removals to mitigate wildfire damages on federal, state, and private lands.' The study involves using the treatment-product and cost information…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bain, Overend
ANNOTATION: Bain and Overend provide a national history of biomass used for energy, a brief market and supply analysis, and a current status of technology. They additionally identify research needs. ABSTRACT: Biomass is the single largest source of non-hydro renewable…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Badger
ANNOTATION: The purpose of this study was to identify and characterize all the receiving, handling, storing, and processing steps required to make woody biomass feedstocks suitable for use in direct combustion and gasification applications, including small modular biopower (SMB…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Storrar
An objective of the soil research program has been to measure forest soil erodibility for erosion prediction. Gathering the data is challenging because samples have to be collected onsite under actual field conditions. These conditions include sites before and after timber…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lisle, Luce, Ziemer, May
Wildfire poses special problems for land-use planners. Responses to fire must be planned in a short period immediately after a fire, relying heavily on information compiled before the extent and severity of the actual fire is known. Secondly, it has been difficult to learn from…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Native village of Tanacross is in the Tanana River valley in Alaska's interior region. Surrounded by a dense stand of white spruce pole timber with transition to dense black spruce it was at risk for crown-type fires. In 2001, a unique approach to reduce wildfire threat and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The BLM Alaska Fire Service and Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc-a non-profit corporation formed by and for Alaska Native villages-have initiated a three-year Fuels Treatment Demonstration Project, with funding from the Joint Fire Science Program. The Joint Fire Science Program is…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Havis
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a computer program that projects the development of forest stands in the United States and British Columbia, Canada. The proceedings of the second FVS conference, held in Fort Collins, CO, includes 34 papers dealing with applications of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dixon
This document synthesizes information in various users' guides relating to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), and updates that information to be consistent with current model capabilities. This guide explains FVS data input requirements, the keyword system, model output…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Luo, Neilson, Tian, Vorosmarty, Zhu, Liu
We have constructed a phenological model of leaf area index (LAI) of forests based on biological principles of leaf growth. Field data of maximum LAI from 794 plots with mature or nearly mature stand ages over China were used to parameterize and calibrate the model. New…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gedalof, Mantua, Peterson
Annual growth increments from trees and coral heads provide an opportunity to develop proxy records of climatic variability that extend back in time well beyond the earliest instrumental records, and in regions where records have not been kept. Here we combine five published…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Little, Calfee
Major Results: 1) The presence of YPS (sodium ferrocyanide) increased the toxicity of fire retardants. 2) Ultraviolet radiation increased the toxicity of fire retardants containing YPS. 3) Toxic cyanide concentrations were observed during stream tests. 4) Toxicity of fire…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zalatan
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES