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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schullery
From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, Lawson, Alexander, Van Wagner, McAlpine, Lynham, Dube
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Woodward, Titus
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Payette, Morneau, Sirois, Desponts
The recent fire history of northern Quebec biomes (54 000 km2), including the northern Boreal Forest, the southern and northern Forest—Tundra, and the Shrub Tundra, was documented by examining size and dates of 20th century wildfires using tree ring techniques. Results showed…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chrosciewicz
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartigan
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell, Bevilacqua, Stocks
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
From the Introduction:'Research in the field of forest fire protection almost inevitably necessitates a requirement for meteorological data. While many projects utilize on-site observations taken concurrently with the experiment, there also exists a considerable requirement for…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the introduction...'If left indefintely in a constant atmospheric environment, dead vegetation material tends toward a characteristic equilibrium moisture content. since atmospheric conditions in nature usually vary appreciably on a scale of hours, it is only fast-drying…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Walker, Stocks
Two wildfires in Ontario in 1971 are analyzed with respect to fire weather, fuel conditions and fire behavior, including rate of spread, fuel consumption and fire intensity. No attempt is made to assess suppression techniques or to discuss fire control costs.
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamilton, Salazar, Palmer
Controlling wildfires within the wildland/urban interface has proven to be the most complex challenge facing wildland fire agencies. Although program improvements to increase the efficiency of interface suppression efforts have been suggested, the availability of information…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Litwin
Wet and dry bulb temperatures from ventilated and non-ventilated screens can be used to obtain realistic values of relative humidity provided the appropriate psychometric coefficient is used. However, relative humidity from non-ventilated screens are subject to significant error…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell
Air temperature at the San Luis experimental watershed were predicted from temperatures at Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the basis of linear regressions between temperatures at the two locations calculated from a full year of continuous record at San Luis and official 3-hour…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
Numerical and analytical soluations of the Fickian diffusion equation were used to determine the effects of precipitation on dead cylindrical forest fuels. The analytical solution provided a physical framework. The numerical solutions were then used to refine the analytical…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McEneaney
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Higgins, Kruse, Piehl
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romme, Despain
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hare, Ritchie
The long-established zonal divisions of the boreal forest-forest-tundra, open woodland, and closed forest-are examined in the light of new information about energy income and of satellite photographs of the divisions themselves. The North American divisions are found to lie…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Deeming, Lancaster, Fosberg, Furman, Schroeder
The National Fire-Danger Rating (NFDR) System produces three indexes-Occurrence, Burning, and Fire Load-that measure relative fire potentials. These indexes are derived from the fire behavior components-Spread, Energy Release, and Ignition-plus a consideration of Risk. Three…
Year: 1972
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