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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Young, Ogg, Dotray
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stevens
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heikes, Ransohoff, Small
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey, Irving, Fitzgerald
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
From the introduction: The Keetch-Byram Drought Index or KBDI has been or is still being used as a guide for estimating the cumulative moisture deficiency in deep duff or upper soil layers. Such information is needed for planning fire management operations in many regions of the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ruess, Van Cleve, Yarie, Viereck
Fine root production and turnover were studied in hardwood and coniferous taiga forests using three methods. (1) Using soil cores, fine root production ranged from 1574 ± 76 kg x ha^-1 x year^-1 in the upland white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stand to 4386 ± 322 kg x ha…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Biging
The combined effects of wind velocity and percent slope on flame length and angle were measured in an open-topped, tilting wind tunnel by burning fuel beds composed of vertical birch sticks and aspen excelsior. Mean flame length ranged from 0.08 to 1.69 m; 0.25 m was the maximum…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Phipps
This section of Silvics of North America: Volume 2, Hardwoods discusses habitat, climate, soils and topography, associated forest cover, life history, special uses, and genetics of balsam poplar.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Safford, Bjorkbom, Zasada
This section of Silvics of North America: Volume 2, Hardwoods discusses habitat, climate, soils and topography, associated forest cover, life history, special uses, and genetics of paper birch.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pojar
The western boreal forest of North America (Manitoba through Alaska) has a typical boreal climate, but the largely sedimentary Interior Plains and the northern Cordillera (part of which was ice-free in the Pleistocene) are physiographically and geologically very different from…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perala
Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed tree in North America. It is known by many names: trembling aspen, golden aspen, mountain aspen, popple, poplar, trembling poplar, and in Spanish, alamo blanco, and alamo temblon (49). It grows on many soil types…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nienstaedt, Zasada
White spruce (Picea glauca), also known as Canadian spruce, skunk spruce, cat spruce, Black Hills spruce, western white spruce, Alberta white spruce, and Porsild spruce, is adapted to a wide range of edaphic and climatic conditions of the Northern Coniferous Forest. The wood of…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Brubaker, Anderson
Analyses of pollen, plant macrofossils, macroscopic charcoal, mollusks, magnetic susceptibility, and geochemical content of a sediment core from Farewell Lake yield a 11,000-yr record of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem changes in the northwestern foothills of the Alaska Range…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen, Ruedy, Sato, Reynolds
Global surface air temperature has increased about 0.5°C from the minimum of mid-1992, a year after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. Both a land-based surface air temperature record and a land-marine temperature index place the meteorological year 1995 at approximately the same level…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeLong, Tanner
Managing forests for sustainable use requires that both the biological diversity of the forests and a viable forest industry be maintained. A current approach towards maintaining biological diversity is to pattern forest management practices after those of natural disturbance…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Lower atmosphere moistures, temperatures, winds, and lapse rates are examined for the days of 339 fires over 400 ha in the United States from 1971 through 1984. These quantities are compared with a climatology dataset from the same 14-year period using 2-way unbalanced analysis…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hirsch, Martell
Information regarding the productivity and effectiveness of initial attack fire crews is essential to a wide variety of forest fire management activities. This paper provides a selective review of crew productivity research conducted in Australia, Canada, and the United States…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mardini, Lavine, Dhir
An experimental and analytical study of heat and mass transfer in wooden dowels during a simulated fire is presented in this paper. The goal of this study is to understand the processes of heat and mass transfer in wood during wildland fires. A mathematical model is developed to…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harrington
Ecosystems are envisioned as integrated, complex systems with both living and non-living components, that are linked through processes of energy flow and nutrient cycling (Bowen, 1971; Ricklefs, 1979). The ecosystem approach seeks to describe the components of this system, the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daniel, Meitner, Weidemann
While natural areas are generally perceived as desirable havens by city dwellers, the potential danger of fire is not always fully appreciated. People may correctly perceive the risk, but are unwilling to compromise their version of natural and aesthetically pleasing…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, George
Laboratory studies of fire retardant corrosion have been conducted on four alloys commonly used in air and ground tankers and mixing plants. All currently used retardants met Forest Service specifications and requirements, but with considerable variations in performance.…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson
Major revisions to Rothermel's fire spread equations include the propagating flux rate, reaction velocity, and moisture damping coefficient. The reaction intensity is of the flames alone and specifically excludes energy derived from burning char whether or not it lies in the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blakely
Water alone was the principal agent reducing flaming combustion to smoldering combustion; adding chemical retardant contributed only a slight additional reduction. Water alone was significantly less effective than chemical mixtures in reducing final energy release rates and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini, Amin, Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
A survey was conducted of predictive models for heat and mass transport within soils exposed to the heating rates and temperature regimes under wildland fires. Two models trace their ancestry to soil science, and other models for heat and mass transport in porous media come from…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES