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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Payette, Gagnon
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Lear, Waldrop
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heinselman
Large stand-replacing fires at intervals of 50 to 500 years were responsible for the vegetation patterns of parks and wilderness areas in the Boreal, Great Lakes-Acadian, Rocky Mountain, and Douglas-fir regions. Fire recurrence is closely linked to stand age in some ecosystems.…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butts
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCutchan
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lynham, Martell
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell, Otukol, Stocks
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Janz, Nimchuk
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fujioka, Tsou
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parker
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Murphy, Radloff
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saveland
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
From the text... 'An ideal forest fire detection system would detect fires the instant they start, day or night, under any condition of visibility. Additionally, it could distinguish potentially dangerous fires from those that would not concern fire suppression forces. Although…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
A study of the effects of exposure (aspect and slope angle) and natural shade on the moisture content of Douglas fir logging slash indicates that, throughout most of the fire season, such effects are not great enough to be of practical significance in slash hazard rating. In the…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCrae
Results and analysis of an experimental burning study on the fire behavior in boreal mixedwood slash in the northern Ontario's Clay Belt Region are presented. Horizontal discontinuity in this fuel type makes fire spread difficult when the fire danger rating is low to moderate.…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen, Deeming
Updating the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) was completed in 1977, and operational use of it was begun the next year. The System provides a guide to wildfire control and suppression by its indexes that measure the relative potential of initiating fires. Such fires do…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
'Considering that most of us in the fire business are involved in management of at least some public land and that, regardless of land status, many of our actions or inactions are subject to public view and often public criticism, an awareness of the political scene, what it…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bell, Van Wagner
In the open, the Xerometer readings bore almost no relation to the fuel moisture content, probably because the element is too well sheltered from the sun. Since it appears to be but marginally better than relative humidity as a measure of moisture content in the shade, we…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Van Wagner
The objective of this paper is to explain the distributions, assumptions, interpretations, and relationships of the two compatible, stochastic models of fire history: the negative exponential and the Weibull. For each model the 'fire interval' and 'time-since-fire' distributions…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Countryman
Mass fires are being investigated through a series of large-scale test fires. Preliminary results indicate: (a) air flow patterns that create eddies can result in fire vortices when fires is present; (b) the lower part of the convection column consists of a series of small…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen, Deeming
Updating the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) was completed in 1977, and operational use of it was begun the next year. The System provides a guide to wildfire control and suppression by its indexes that measure the relative potential of initiating fires. Such fires do…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
Field personnel in all forest fire protection agencies need some simple but reasonably accurate method for evaluating severity of the fire season as it progresses and of comparing severity of the current season with that of preceding fire seasons. This paper proposes use of…
Year: 1964
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
Schroeder, Glovinsky, Hendricks, Hull, Jacobson, Krueger, Mallory, Oertel, Reese, Sergius, Syverson
Mass fires are likely to spread rapidly and burn intensely when strong winds are combined with low humidities and high temperatures, particularly after a rainless period. To identify synoptic weather types that create such periods of critical fire weather, the 48 contiguous…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES