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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Straub
Changing the display format is the least painful way for the fire manager to reduce the cost of AFFIRMS. Some ways to cut costs: •Suppress the headings only if 7 more than three headings can be saved •Pick the shortest display consistent with your needs •Don't use the special…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Takle, Brown
A hybrid density function is given for describing wind-speed distributions having nonzero probability of "calm.” A Weibull probability graph paper designed specifically for plotting wind-speed distributions is used to determine distribution parameters to within a few percent of…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
'Fire Spread in a Black Spruce Stand.-The Canadian Forest Fire weather Index Tables consist of a family of relative fire danger indices that are used throughout Canada to assist in general fire control planning and operations. However, the fire manager must predict real fire…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Young, Redmond
This report describes procedures used to validate AIRPRO - an air tanker productivity computer simulation model. It begins by discussing the general concept of validation and listing specific producedures that can be used to test models. The supportive components of AIRPRO are…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stockstad
Spontaneous and piloted ignition of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Laws.) needles were investigated in an isothermal atmosphere. Four levels of sample moisture content were tested and minimum heat flux intensities required to produce ignition, times to ignition, and surface…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alston, Freeman
This paper examines two sets of decision rules for planning-the economic benefit-cost analysis and the sociological approach-and points the way toward a useful integration. A synthesis provides the means, both conceptual and practical, to aid the decision-maker in selecting…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dietz
Most western state laws pertaining to prescribed burning do not specifically deal with range rehabilitation. Prescribed burns require a burning permit issued by the State Forester, or his equivalent, prior to ignition during closed fire seasons. Air quality standards have been…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dissmeyer, Stump
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuquay
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haines, Main
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bratten
Long-range planning of forest fire initial attack systems requires a method for evaluation of force effectiveness against an assumed pattern of fire occurrence on the planning unit.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haines, Johnson
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marshall, Radhakant
Radar maps of precipitation at a height of 6km have been studied for the thunderstorms of one July day. Regions on these maps within which the intensity level exceeds 30 dBZ (corresponding to a rainfall rate of 2.8 mm h(-1)) represent thunderstorms, some single-celled and some…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacClement
The directions in which VHF pulses are received from thunderstorms are measured at the rate of over 600 s-l with elapsed time also stored every 10 ms during bursts. This provides detailed information regarding the sequence of directions to an accuracy of - or + 51, for direction…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moore
It is now well established that fire plays an important part as a periodic disturbing influence on many of the forest types of North America. The species composition of such forests has undergone selection as a result of the regularity of fires during their history so that the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sando
'Natural resource management is an important activity in our society. The conservation and current environmental movements have emphasized the importance of sound management of natural resources. While there may be significant potential gains for production of our renewable…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
This report examines air tankers from a systems point of view. The discussion begins by describing the fire control environment. Fire suppression is discussed from the resource management viewpoint. Emphasis then shifts to identifying the structure, components, resources, work…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ripley, Saugier
(1) Microclimatic maesurements and flux determinations were made on natural Agropyron-Koeleria grassland during two growing seasons. (2) The calculated evaluation fluxes were analyzed in terms of the potential evaporation, soil moisture content, and plant water potential. The…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz
Economic limitations prevent the mapping over of large areas of forest fire fuel types using conventional forestry methods. The information contained in such maps would be a valuable tool for assisiting in initial attack planning, presuppression planning and fire growth…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer, Auvil
Wind velocity, direction, and temperatures can vary drastically before, during, and after wild or prescribed fires. A data-recording system based on the logarithmic character of semiconductors has been developed for observing turbulent fluctuations from the mean in ratio form.…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans
In a year of catastrophic wildland fires across the country, Alaska once again had the dubious honor of being host to the nation's largest wildland fire.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
This paper deals with the application of fire management principles to satisfy land management needs. What is fire management? Briefly, fire management is the applicaiton of fire related knowledge to achieve specific land management objectives. In this case, the required fire…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hibbert, Davis, Brown
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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Furman
The specification of moisture contents in forest fuels is an integral part of any workable fire-danger rating system. This paper presents a linear model for estimating the moisture content of the 100-hour timelag fuels. The variables in the model include yesterday's computed…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS