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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Greulich, O'Regan
Fire managers face two interrelated problems in deciding the most efficient use of air tankers: where best to base them, and how best to reallocate them each day in anticipation of fire occurrence. A computerized model based on a mixed integer linear program can help in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Regan, Kourtz, Nozaki
The bias involved in a point-process analog (Dijkstra algorithm) to a continuous fire is shown to be related to the number of points involved in the definition of adjacency and the degree of directionality of the rates of spread. If the point-process starts with a fire perimeter…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parker
Structural/functional characteristics of the vegetative cover are used to provide common attributes for comparing vegetation patterns in Yosemite National Park, California, in the central Sierra Nevada, and Glacier National Park, Montana, in the northern Rocky Mountains.…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Getter
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Eaton
For more than a half-century, it has been public policy to suppress all brush and forest fires, yet contrary to Smokey the Bear's conventional wisdom, not all fires may be harmful. Recent evidence suggests that periodic small fires may benefit forests and wildlife. A long period…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Beever
Spontaneous ignition resulting from slow oxidation of combustible material can be an industrial fire hazard. The problems are fairly well recognised. This paper describes a simple and powerful test method which can be used to assess the spontaneous ignition hazard of particulate…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter, Philpot
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavdas
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini, Anderson
Quantification and methods of prediction of wildland fire behavior are discussed briefly and factors of particular relevance to the prediction of fire behavior in Mediterranean ecosystems are reviewed. A computer-based system which uses relevant fuel information and current…
Year: 1982
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
Mobley
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
This paper is a comprehensive review of operational research studies in forest fire management during the years 1961 through 1981. It includes a brief discussion of fire management decision making, summaries of and comments regarding the practical merits of the work that has…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ffolliott, Clary, Baker
The forest floor affects the hydrological cycle, herbage production, tree regeneration, and fire behavior. Forest floor depths and weights under ponderosa pine stands on soils developed from sedimentary parent materials were similar to those previously found on soils developed…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeVan, Schaffer
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeVan, Schaffer
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Helmers
Fire access usually should be via ridges, where soil tends to be shallow, erosion hazards minimal, and timber cover most open. Dry slopes with deep permafrost or none are useable, but any slope is a potential erosion hazard. Permafrost areas, muskegs, and poorly drained sites…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson, Holliday
Fifteen months after an intense forest fire, the fauna of carabid beetles in burnt and unburnt sites was sampled using pitfall traps to detect the indirect effects of fire on carabids caused by habitat change. Traps were installed in burnt and unburnt sites in which the dominant…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bevins
Two computer programs for testing alternative fire prescriptions are presented. Program RXBUILD creates a fire occurrence and a fire weather, danger, and manning class file for use by the second program. Program RXFIRES reads user fire selection criteria are tested against the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradshaw
Climatological data can aid in scheduling prescribed fires. Proper scheduling results in efficient fire management activities. This paper introduces several computer programs that provide climatic analysis of fire weather variables used in setting burning prescriptions.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Battson, Cawker
This study involved an evaluation of the various measures of fire occurrence as recorded in lake sediments. A short core (90cm) was extracted from Mashagama Lake, Ontario. The basin was burned in 1948 and 1967, yielding two zones, one burned and one unburned in the sediment core…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catchpole, de Mestre, Gill
The Byram index of fire intensity is extended from the head of a fire to include its total perimeter. Variation in intensity is plotted against different variables for an elliptical fire front; for one of these variables (the normal angle) this plot is shown to apply to an…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Coady
Description not entered.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frear
[Excerpt] The Alaska yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) is dying, and no one knows why. Even worse, a new generation of trees is not developing. Seedlings are rare in many of these dying stands. The future looks discouraging for this interesting and valuable tree.…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES