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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Anderson
Documents the analysis of wind tunnel experiments on fire spread that produced a double ellipse concept of fire area growth. This provides ways of estimating size (area), shape (perimeter), and length to width ratio of a wind-driven wild land fire. The only inputs needed are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogel, Williams
Experimental observations are presented on flame propagation along uniform, linear, horizontal arrays of vertically oriented matchsticks. Matchstick height and spacing between matchsticks are varied. Reported results include necessary conditions for flame propagation, linear…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Byram, Nelson
The authors present scaling relationships for modeling pulsating fires. Data gathered from various sizes of pulsating fires compared favorably with the predicted relationships between fire diameter and pulsation frequency.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder, Buck
[Excerpt from text] The fire weather occurring on a particular day is a dominant factor in the fire potential for that day. Fire climate well may be thought of as the synthesis of daily fire weather over a long period of time, is a dominant factor in fire control planning.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg
Prescribed burning is an effective tool widely used in forest management. Several strategies are employed to minimize pollution from prescribed fire, including systems to avoid polluting sensitive areas or to ensure adequate dilution between the source and the receptors. Success…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward
Source strength is defined as the rate of release of an emission into the atmosphere from a specified process. In this paper, source-strength modeling of emissions of particulate matter from prescribed fires is discussed from three perspectives: 1) unit area (per m2), 2) unit…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blank, Simard
There are many disadvantages to current techniques for measuring the spread rate of wildland fires. This paper describes the design and use of an electronic timer that resolves most of the problems. The unit is small, lightweight, inexpensive, easy-to-assemble, self-contained,…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Eenigenburg
Presents TI-59 programs that use fire arrival times to calculate the rate and direction of spread of a fire across a triangular or square plot.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chesemore
In 1951 and 1954, vegetation study plots and observations on wildlife reactions to the forest fire of 1950 along the upper Porcupine River, Alaska, were begun by members on the Alaska Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit. Periodically, the study areas were visited and data on…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stockstad, Lory
A furnace capable of producing either spontaneous or pilot-ignition and measuring temperatures at which, these ignitions occur has been designed and constructed for use in ignition studies of fine forest fuels. One-inch-long sections of conifer needles, grass stems and leaves,…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
The motion of a strong line thermal in an unstratified atmosphere is modeled to estimate a bound for its capability to lift firebrand particles. It is found that the maximum height of a viable firebrand is roughly proportional to the square root of thermal strength. The…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
Sufficient data exist within the literature to allow the woody biomass of two subspecies of Artemisia tridentata, basin big sagebrush Artemesia tridentata ssp. tridentata), and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata ssp. wyomingensiis), to be classified into 3 standard fuel…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Muraro, Lawson
Field measurements of moisture distribution in organic layers under mature stands and in exposed slash areas, and the effect of additional precipitation are presented and discussed. Implications of the moisture distribution to control of prescribed fires and their relation to…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil, Chrosciewicz
Forest fires have played an important role in determining the type and composition of forest ecosystems in the temperate region of North America. The close association between fires and forest ecosystems has helped the resource manager to interpret the significance of fire in…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
This paper presents a system for locating lightning strikes and predicting the number of fire ignitions on forests and rangelands. This system uses variables representing weather and fuels and real-time lightning locations as inputs. Outputs from the system consist of printouts…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
In this paper a mathematical description of flow into the forest edge is proposed and used as a basis for a detailed reexamination of experimental results from the scale model studies of Kawatania and Sadeh (1971). It is the intention here to use the experimental data to guide…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Four 0.8-ha plots south of Tucson, Ariz., were burned November 12, 1975, in a pasture where cattle had not grazed for 12 months. The fire top-killed most small mesquites, killed almost all of the burroweed and much of the cactus, except in unburned patches. Within 5 years…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
The burnout of large-sized woody fuels, 1 to 6 inches thick, is being measured at the USDA Forest Service Northern Forest Fire Laboratory in Missoula, Mont. Physical properties of the fuel bed are varied to determine threshold for interactive burning, periods of flaming and…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doerksen
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yarie
The structure and function of taiga ecosystems over a 3,600,000 ha area of northeastern interior Alaska was shown to be consistent with a hypothesis relating vegetative structure and dynamics to site nutrient status and soil temperature. Ordination of modal community…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Van Cleve
A total of 58 trees was sampled from eight stands across a large area of interior Alaska. Regression equations were developed to estimate standing aboveground biomass for 22 white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands. Aboveground standing biomass of white spruce in mature…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yakovlev
In 1971-80, extensive and detailed investigations were made in the Kostroma region of the USSR on various primary forest types, viz. spruce forests of the compositum, oxalidosum, myrtillosum and riparian types; pine forests of the vacciniosum, cladinosum, and sphagnosum types;…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
White spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands in the Resurrection Creek watershed in south-central Alaska were infested by spruce bettles, Dendroctonus rugipennis Kirby, between 1974 and 1975. Thirty permanent plots were established within the infested area in 1976 to…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Dyrness, Van Cleve, Foote
Vegetation, forest productivity, and soils of 23 forest stands in the taiga of interior Alaska are described. The stands are arranged on an environmental gradient from an aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) stand on a dry, steep south-facing bluff, to open black spruce (Picea…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES