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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bishop, Armbruster
We compared the thermoregulatory capabilities of tropical and subarctic bees to determine whether bees from higher latitudes have greater thermoregulatory capabilities. The data indicate that thermoregulatory capability is a function of size and wing loading, and there is no…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bessie, Johnson
Surface fire intensity (kW m[-1]) and crown fire initiation were predicted using Rothermel's (1972) and Van Wagner's (1977) models, with fuel data from 47 subalpine conifer stands and 35 years of daily weather (moisture contents and windspeeds). Rothermel's intensity equations…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gutsell, Johnson
We have constructed a model for the transient heating of cones showing that there is a logarithmic relationship between the time (sec) to cone opening (releasing viable seeds) or cone ignition and temperature (°K) in the convective column above a fire. The slope of the curve is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heard
Larvae of the midge Metriocnemus knabi and of the mosquito Wyeomyia smithii feed on decaying invertebrate carcasses inside the water-filled leaves of the purple pitcher plant. I examined the interaction between these two species in natural populations in Gros Morne National Park…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hopkins, Miyanishi
Prescribed burning is being used at Pinery Provincial Park in southern Ontario to restore an oak savanna community which has been changing into a closed oak woodland due to a past policy of fire suppression and conifer reforestation. Quercus muehlenbergii, a shade-intolerant…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen, MacDonald
To determine whether there are persistent differences in fire frequency in Picea glauca and Pinus banksiana forests, we examine dendrochronological and palynological records of fire history. The time since the last fire at 165 stands located in Wood Buffalo National Park (44,807…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tyler, D'Antonio
In circumstances where species vie for limited resources, disturbance can preclude competition by lowering population densities and thereby relieving pressure on resources. For that reason, competition is believed to be unimportant in the establishment of plant seedlings…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catchpole, Catchpole, Rothermel
A series of laboratory fire experiments were conducted in fuel beds consisting of either excelsior (wood wool), or 6.35 mm sticks, or a mixture of these. Tests were done both with and without wind. Various characteristics of the fire, including rate of spread and fireline…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wallace
An extension of the simple ellipse model of a vegetation fire is presented. This facilitates numerical implementation, and can therefore incorporate irregular topographical features and temporal changes in burning conditions. The model has been encoded into an interactive PC…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mees, Strauss, Chase
We describe a mathematical model for the probability that a fireline succeeds in containing a fire. The probability increases as the fireline width increases, and also as the fire's flame length decreases. More interestingly, uncertainties in width and flame length affect the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson
G.M. Byram's energy criterion for forest and wildland fires consists of two equations: one for computing the rate of flow of kinetic energy in the atmosphere due to the wind field (Pw), and one for estimating the rate of conversion of thermal energy to kinetic energy in the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Summarizes much of the geologic, paleoecologic, and oceanographic evidence for global environmental and climactic changes during the last 18,000 years.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Dyrness, Foote
The soils and vegetation of 12 stages of forest succession on the floodplain of the Tanana River are described. Succession begins with the invasion of newly deposited alluvium by willows (Salix spp.) and develops through a willow-alder (Alnus tenuifolia Nutt.) stage to forest…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Serreze, Box, Barry, Walsh
Synoptic activity for the Arctic is examined for the period 1952-1989 using the National Meteorological Center sea level pressure data set. Winter cyclone activity is most common near Iceland, between Svalbard and Scandinavia, the Norwegian and Kara seas, Baffin Bay and the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beer
The results of a number of laboratory tests of wind-driven fires indicate the existence of a characteristic wind speed, U'. The form of the fire spread (V) as a function of mid-flame wind speed (U) differs above and below this characteristic speed. The scatter in field data is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Houze, Jr.
Cloud dynamics
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
Published data on two sets of experimental fires in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) forest were subjected to two forms of analysis. The first was a classification into surface fires and two kinds of crown fire, passive and active. In the second, the data were used to develop a…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Etling, Brown
Roll vortices may be loosely defined as quasi two-dimensional organized large eddies with their horizontal axis extending through the whole planetary boundary layer (PBL). Their indirect manifestation is most obvious in so-called cloud streets as can be seen in numerous…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stokes, McDonald, Kelley
ANNOTATION: High transport costs are a factor to consider in the use of forest residues for fuel. Costs can be reduced by increasing haul capacities, reducing high moisture contents, and improving trucking efficiency. The literature for transpirational drying and the economics…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Ferguson, Speers-Hayes
Unpublished final report to the USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Stage
This document details enhancements to the Parallel Processing Extension (PPE) to the Prognosis Model and documents corrections to the original 'User's Guide to the Parallel Processing Extension of the Prognosis Model' by Crookston and Stage (1991). The original guide contains…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Burns, Hall, Hanson
CONSUME is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of IBM-PC applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption on logged units based on weather data, the amount and fuel moisture of fuels, and a number of other…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson
The equations presented by G. M. Byram in 1959 for calculating energy flow rate in the wind field (P w ) and in the convection column (P f ) above a wildland fire are inconsistent because units for each rate are not those of an energy rate (or power) per unit area. New equations…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Regulations relating to the Clean Air Act requirement that Federal actions conform to the appropriate state, tribal, or federal implementation plan for attaining clean air.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Viereck, Marion
This paper provides an overview of the environmental setting, rationale, and organization of a multidisciplinary research programme designed to examine the role of salt-affected soils in primary succession on the Tanana River floodplain of interior Alaska. The association of…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES