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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Viereck, Dyrness, Foote
The soils and vegetation of 12 stages of forest succession on the floodplain of the Tanana River are described. Succession begins with the invasion of newly deposited alluvium by willows (Salix spp.) and develops through a willow-alder (Alnus tenuifolia Nutt.) stage to forest…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Serreze, Box, Barry, Walsh
Synoptic activity for the Arctic is examined for the period 1952-1989 using the National Meteorological Center sea level pressure data set. Winter cyclone activity is most common near Iceland, between Svalbard and Scandinavia, the Norwegian and Kara seas, Baffin Bay and the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beer
The results of a number of laboratory tests of wind-driven fires indicate the existence of a characteristic wind speed, U'. The form of the fire spread (V) as a function of mid-flame wind speed (U) differs above and below this characteristic speed. The scatter in field data is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuquay
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) (Deeming and others 1972) has been updated; the revised system will be in use in l978 (Deeming and others 1977). One of the changes in the NFDRS is treatment of lightning-caused fires. A model based on physical and stochastic…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Susott
Char yield at 500° C has been measured for 40 typical forest fuels, including foliage, wood, small stems, and bark. The effect of changing heating rates was determined from 20° C/min to about 1000° C/min, to simulate a range of burning conditions. The average of all fuels was 26…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Egging, Barney, Thompson
Offers a system for land management planning that enables managers to include and evaluate the effects of wildfire or prescribed burning on resources. Diagrams important considerations and decision-making steps.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kessell, Fischer
Forest managers can model and predict the postfire succession of plant communities using existing and/or readily obtainable data. The methods presented require neither computation nor computer analysis. Examples are provided from the Northern Rocky Mountains, but the methods are…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Fischer
Describes a user-oriented computer system that allows fire managers to analyze climatological data for the purpose of predicting the probable occurrence of desired prescribed fire conditions. Provides instruction for use of the system and documents all programs. A computer…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helfman, Straub, Deeming
This User's Guide is a comprehensive manual for persons accessing the 1978 version of National Fire Danger Rating System on AFFIRMS. AFFIRMS, the Administrative and Forest Fire Information Retrieval and Management System is a user-oriented, interactive computer program. Weather…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini, Chase
Presents simplified equations for solving the fire containment problem. Equations can be used on a programmable pocket calculator to derive the burned area, given forward rate of spread, initial area, fire shape length/width ratio, and control-line construction rate. Equations…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Baughman, Albini
Wind is one of the major factors involved in predicting forest fire behavior. Fire behavior models require wind information to predict fire spread in various fuel types and within forest stands in complex terrain. The means of providing the necessary wind data in remote areas,…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Houze, Jr.
Cloud dynamics
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
Published data on two sets of experimental fires in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) forest were subjected to two forms of analysis. The first was a classification into surface fires and two kinds of crown fire, passive and active. In the second, the data were used to develop a…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Luti
This paper describes a finite difference experiment to simulate the transient development of the convection column above a strip of uniform high temperature source in a stratified uniform cross flow atmosphere. The κ-ε model of turbulence is used and an upstream weighted scheme…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Etling, Brown
Roll vortices may be loosely defined as quasi two-dimensional organized large eddies with their horizontal axis extending through the whole planetary boundary layer (PBL). Their indirect manifestation is most obvious in so-called cloud streets as can be seen in numerous…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
Within the past decade, satellite pictures have shown persistent cloud patterns which indicate that the flow in the atmospheric planetary boundary layer is often organized into helical secondary circulations aligned parallel to the mean flow. Theory and observation agree that…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evans, Cooper
Open sources are those stationary sources of air pollution too great in extent to be controlled through enclosure or ducting. Open sources of atmospheric particles include: wind erosion, tilling, and prescribed burning of agricultural cropland; surface mining and wind erosion of…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clements, McMahon
Twelve forest fuels that varied widely in nitrogen content were burned in a thermogravimetric system, and nitrogen oxide production was analyzed by chemiluminescence. The effects of fuel nitrogen concentration, available oxygen, flow rate, and heating rate on nitrogen oxide…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson
The basic fire spread equations published by Rothermel in 1972 are reformulated in the International System of units.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stokes, McDonald, Kelley
ANNOTATION: High transport costs are a factor to consider in the use of forest residues for fuel. Costs can be reduced by increasing haul capacities, reducing high moisture contents, and improving trucking efficiency. The literature for transpirational drying and the economics…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Ferguson, Speers-Hayes
Unpublished final report to the USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Stage
This document details enhancements to the Parallel Processing Extension (PPE) to the Prognosis Model and documents corrections to the original 'User's Guide to the Parallel Processing Extension of the Prognosis Model' by Crookston and Stage (1991). The original guide contains…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Burns, Hall, Hanson
CONSUME is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of IBM-PC applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption on logged units based on weather data, the amount and fuel moisture of fuels, and a number of other…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson
The equations presented by G. M. Byram in 1959 for calculating energy flow rate in the wind field (P w ) and in the convection column (P f ) above a wildland fire are inconsistent because units for each rate are not those of an energy rate (or power) per unit area. New equations…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Regulations relating to the Clean Air Act requirement that Federal actions conform to the appropriate state, tribal, or federal implementation plan for attaining clean air.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES