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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 1 - 25 of 25
McArthur, Cheney
From the text ... 'The purpose of this paper is to outline quantitative methods of describing fires which are meaningful for the purpose of considering fire effects on vegetation, soil or microfaunal activity.'
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fanshawe
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Perumpral, Lien, Liljedahl
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Slobodkin
[no description entered]
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Countryman
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sparling, Smith
The temperature of 18 fires in an open jack pine barren near Timmins, Ontario, have been recorded. The maximum temperature recorded was 545 degrees C, although in other determinations fire temperatures in excess of 1000 degrees C were reached. The mean temperatures of all fires…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schroeder, Chandler
From tabulated frequency distributions of fire danger indexes for a nationwide network of 89 stations, the probabilities of four types of fire behavior ranging from 'fire out' to 'critical' were calculated for each month and are shown in map form.
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bennett
This review, based on information from 169 references, analyzes the problem presented by logging slash, and its importance. It discusses eight factors which affect the slash hazard, and describes nine methods to abate it. Legislation governing the treatment of slash in Canada,…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A series of three 4—acre plots in a jack pine cut over were burned at three degrees of fire hazard. The weather, fire behaviour, and effects are reported, and a general conclusion drawn by others was confirmed: slash hazard is reduced by any running fire, but certain desired…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
It is generally recognized that logging slash, by increasing the concentration of forest fuels, creates a high forest fire hazard. The most severe fire hazard is found on clearcuts where fuels are usually continuous and exposed to the dessicating effects of prevailing weather…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster
'The smoke generated when wood is heated in air contains a considerable range of compounds resulting from the distillation and degradation of celluloses, lignins, resins and tannins. Visible particles which are formed when the smoke cools appear to equilibriate rapidly with the…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kowal
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram
The effective use of modeling techniques in the study of free-burning fires requires more knowledge of the essential scaling laws than has hitherto been available. These laws are developed for a stationary area or 'mass' fire by the methods of dimensional analysis. If fires are…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel, Anderson
Fuel beds of ponderosa pine needles and white pine needles were burned under controlled environmental conditions to determine the effects of fuel moisture and windspeed upon the rate of fire spread. Empirical formulas are presented to show the effect of these parameters. A…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schroeder, Chandler
From tabulated frequency distributions of fire danger indexes for a nationwide network of 89 stations, the probabilities of four types of fire behavior ranging from 'fire out' to 'critical' were calculated for each month and are shown in map form.
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Welker, Sliepcevich
The bending of a flame by wind influences the amount of heat transferred by radiation and convection, the fuel burning rate, and the flame spread rate. To what extent will a flame be bent by wind? The author presents correlations of data taken from liquid pool fires, which…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pryor, Yuill
A program was undertaken to define the life hazard in a mass fire environment resulting from nuclear attack. The nature of casualties and hazards in peacetime and wartime fires was reviewed, and experimental efforts to simulate mass fire situations were studied. This state-of-…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilde, Krause
Based on an extensive survey of 200 areas and a detailed examination of soil and forest composition and increment on 37 sample plots, a description is given, with profile and data on soil properties, of skeletal (lithosols and regosols), alluvial, melanized raw humus, micro-…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harris
In 1957, circular plots in a burnt clear-felled area, in old-growth Western Hemlock and Sitka Spruce and in an adjacent unburnt area, were sown after burning, first by hand and again, 3 months later, from the air. Results were assessed from initial seedling establishment (from…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lutz
From introduction: 'The boreal forest of Alaska represents the northwestern portion of a great transcontinental forest belt that extends through more than 110 degrees longitude, from Newfoundland and the Labrador coast in Canada to the limits of tree growth on the Seward…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ahlgren, Ahlgren
A review of literature, with chief reference to North America, but including also much literature from other parts of the world, under the main heads: effects of fire on soil (moisture relations, texture, temperature during and after burning, fertility, and chemical composition…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS