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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Mutch, Briggs
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pickford, Sandberg
A simple, inexpensive, and relatively accurate photographic method for date collection is described. Objects of interest are triangulated from films taken simultaneously at two camera positions. Accumulated synchronization and measurement errors amounted to 0.2 - 0.5 meter. The…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feller
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tanner, Newman
This report reviews the current state of analytical methodology for sulfate in airborne particles. Methods for determination of total aerosol sulfate and total soluble sulfate are assessed. A more detailed review of the relatively new techniques for quantitative speciation of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
A speculative, phenomenological model is formulated for the time-varying intensity and spread rate of a free-burning fire under the influence of nonsteady wind. The model is linearized by approximations and explicit solutions derived for the amplitude response of spread rate and…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The purpose of this guide is to assist in the operational monitoring and evaluation of prescribed fires. A common approach to monitoring and evaluation will enable prescribed fire managers and resource specialists in different organizations and areas to share…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parmeter, Uhrenholdt
From the Discussion and Summary ... 'The data and observations presented here are fragmentary and are not adequate to establish that smoke from wildfires or prescribed burns markedly affects microbial activity in wildland plant communities. They suggest, however, that such…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
The Department of Interior is actively engaged in the smoke management business from two apparently opposite viewpoints. In one case we are trying to prevent or extinguish wildfires and minimize adverse effects on air quality as well as other resources. On the other hand we are…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cooper
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coleman
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierovich
'We have read the recent review article 'Primary and Secondary Particulates as Pollutants' by P. F. Fennelly with considerable interest, but yet, concern. Our interest is based on an awareness of the need to examine particulate pollution in terms of particle size and chemical…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gardiner
'...With the aid of modern laboratory techniques it is possible to detect not only the end products of combustion proccsses but also many substances that appear transiently in the course of burning. As a result fire has come to be understood chemically as an intricate network of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'The outcome of the Southern Forestry Education Campaign was much less devisive. To begin with, its subject was not the internal distribution of agency funds but the promotion of fire protection as a concept. Nor was it concerned with the question of transient…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'But with the advent of fire protection in the South, game birds decreased much as pasturage had and as grouse populations had in Britain. The vegetative ensemble that sustained maximum populations gave way to roughage and woods. By 1923 hunting plantations in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'It is often assumed that the American Indian was incapable of greatly modifying his environment and that he would not have been much interested in doing so if he did have the capabilities. In fact, he possessed both the tool and the will to use it. That tool…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adkins, Clements
[no description entered]
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: 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
Benech
An experimental project on convective plumes initiated from the ground by an exceptionally powerful artificial heat source has been carried out. The heat source consisted of 97 oil burners releasing a total power of 600 MW. The measuring equipment consisted of a ground network…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
An empirical representation of the power spectral density of horizontal gustiness near the ground in high winds is combined with a theoretical model for the response of free-burning fires to nonsteady wind to predict the variability of spread rate and intensity of wind-aided…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS