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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
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Burgan
Seasonal changes in day length and solar radiation intensity at three latitudes influenced the Man-Caused Ignition Component, the Energy Release Component, and the Burning Index of the National Fire-Danger Rating System. Seasonal effects for the Energy Release Component are…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bowman
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen, Burgan
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klukas
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Young, Evans, Weaver
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stockstad
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Iltis, Guzman, Pazy
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anonymous
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dieterich
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hays, Imbrie, Shackleton
1) Three indices of global climate have been monitored in the record of the past 450,000 years in Southern Hemisphere ocean-floor sediments. 2) Over the frequency range 10-4 to 10-5 cycle per year, climatic variance of these records is concentrated in three discrete spectral…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Biswas, Jayaweera
The very high resolution radiometer imagery from the NOAA-3 satellite is used to obtain the spatial and temporal distribution of thunderstorms in Alaska. Although the observations presented here are confined to only one summer, they show 1) the capability of NOAA-3 very high…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen, Andrews
Predicting fire behavior in nonuniform fuel arrays is a problem requiring: 1. A method of assessing fuel nonuniformity, 2. A method of simulating fuel nonuniformity, and 3. An algorithm governing fire spread through a simulated array. Satisfying these requirements is the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fuquay, Baughman, Latham
A model has been developed for predicting the number of lightning-fire ignitions in wildland fuels. The model is based on both stochastic and physical processes. Stochastic methods are used to generalize the lightning storm characteristics and site conditions that affect the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Latham
Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Johnson
Updates data (Research Note INT-91) for measuring viscosity of fire retardants in the field by means of the Marsh Funnel. New data cover Tenogum and gum-thickened Fire-Trol 931. Data for Gelgard (no longer available) have been dropped.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stockstad
Spontaneous and piloted ignition of cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) stems were investigated in an isothermal atmosphere. Three levels of sample moisture content were tested and minimum heat flux intensities required to produce ignition, times to ignition, and surface…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
This report discusses fire-related research needs in the western regions of the Forest Service. These needs were expressed by personnel at all management levels. Responses were one part of a more general study designed to establish information requirements for integrating fire…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Borden
A discussion on the impacts to fire management resulting from various acts of legislation including NEPA, the Clean Air Act, the Wilderness Act, and the National Forest Management Act.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Egging
Today, natural resource managers and scientists are required to evaluate and even anticipate the effects that management practices for a single resource will have on the production or use of all other natural resources. For example, a successful prescribed fire will accomplish…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips
Some of you may be like I am: a thick-skinned, hard-of-hearing traditionalist. For many years we fire fighters, fire managers, and resource managers have been bombarded, lambasted and harangued about the need to integrate fire and fire management into plans for managing wildland…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyon
Land use planning has truly reached a high plateau in this country. Planning is firmly entrenched and here to stay. With the population increase and therefore increased resource demands, our resource producing land base is shrinking. We must strive for maximum production on the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cutler
[From the text] The topics to be discussed today are certainly timely and deserve your attention. I feel it is significant that your working group is trying to involve landowners, managers and planners. Fire was a front page news story this summer. The severe fire situation…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A compilation of papers presented at the Society of American Foresters, Fire Working Group technical session held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2-6, 1977. The keynote address by Dr. M. Rupert Cutler, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture established the session's perspective…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Before a wildland fire can start, heat must be transferred from a firebrand to the fuel. Then heat must be transferred from the fuel surface to deeper layers if the fire is to continue to burn. Finally, heat must be transferred to surrounding unburned fuel if the fire is to…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Wildland fire is dependent on heat transfer. For a fire to start, heat must be transferred from a firebrand to the fuel. If the fire is to burn and grow, heat transfer to the unburned fuel around the fire must continue. The way a fire burns and behaves is closely related to the…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES