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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Berg
The proceedings is a collection of papers presented at the Symposium on Fire and Watershed Management - the second biennial conference of the Watershed Management Council-held in Sacramento, California, October 26-28, 1988. Included are two luncheon addresses, seven papers on…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Weber
Some basic fire behavior phenomena are described in terms of analytical solutions to simple physical models for the heating of unburned fuel to ignition temperature by radiation from the combustion region. The most interesting result is a model for the intrinsic acceleration…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larsen
Record of observations on forest/tundra ecology. Discusses northern soils, plant communities, climate, and faunal relationships. Includes maps, data, aerial photographs.
Year: 1989
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
Latham, Schlieter
Ignition of wildland fine fuels by lightning was simulated with an electric arc discharge in the laboratory. The results showed that fuel parameters such as depth, moisture content, bulk density, and mineral content can be combined with the duration of the simulated continuing…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Chase
The BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system is a set of interactive computer programs. BEHAVE provides mathematical prediction models in one easy-to-use package. This paper describes prediction capabilities that have been added to the system. Since 1984, BEHAVE…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Chrosciewicz
Moisture contents of organic forest-floor materials were studied by strata in a semi-mature jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) stand in relation to their within-stand locations and changes in both duff moisture code and fine fuel moisture code, the two weather-based components of…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chrosciewicz
Moisture contents of organic forest-floor materials were studied by strata on a clear-cut jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) site in relation to slash distribution and changes in both duff moisture code and fine fuel moisture code, the two weather-based components of the Canadian…
Year: 1989
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
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
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
Stephenson
ANNOTATION: This paper provides an overview of the concept, development, and technology of flail debarkers.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
Description not entered.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
Description not entered.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Buskirk
Description not entered.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmoldt
Residential encroachment into wildland areas places an additional burden on fire management activities. Prevention programs, fuel management efforts, and suppression strategies, previously employed in wildland areas, require modification for protection of increased values at…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES