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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fuglem, Danard
A major problem with weather data in complex terrain is temporal and spatial interpolation. The British Columbia Forest Service, through the services of Atmospheric Dynamics Corporation, has adapted a meso-scale weather model to provide hourly predictions out to 4.5 days for a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen
Smoldering spread rates (cm h-1) are derived from the results of an experimental evaluation of the unit area burning rate of smoldering material (g cm-2 h-1). The unit area burning rate, which is the load loss rate normal to the smoldering surface, depends only on the moisture…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Cheney, Trevitt
The term 'tree crown street' has been coined to describe the pattern of burned or partially burned tree crowns, aligned roughly parallel to the general direction of fire spread, that is often left in the wake of crowning forest fires. Within the streets the foliage of the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Eenigenburg
This paper describes an information system that uses National Weather Service computer-generated forecasts to automatically produce 1- and 2-day fire severity forecasts for 49 States. There are two computer models - the limited fine mesh model and the nested grid model. Both…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothwell, Woodard, Samran
Ground fuels in aspen forests of central Alberta even after considerable periods of dry weather are moist and do not easily ignite, nor sustain combustion. It was hypothesized that low flammability of aspen ground fuels is significantly affected by capillary soil water flow from…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kanjanakunchorn, Woodard, McDonald
A commonly available plastic garden-type soaker hose was tested in a 'series' configuration to determine the suitability of using this hose type to contain wildland fires. The bursting strength was determined for three hose-types (the RCR-strata, 3-tube, Robinson) as part of…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
The 1989 fire season was the most severe in 71-years of recorded fire history in Manitoba. A total of 1147 fires burned 3.28 million ha and cost over $63 million (CDN) to suppress. The events of 1989 resulted in the development and implementation of a new Initial Attack…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chou
Geographic Information System (GIS) is used to delineate critical zones of extremely high fire danger. The objective is to develop effective spatial strategies for the prevention and suppression of wildland fires. To minimize costs and losses due to wildland fires while within…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chase
The computer simulation process used by the National Forests and other wildland protection agencies for strategic fire planning evaluates alternatives based on the range of probable fire behavior conditions that may be expected on the unit over a total period of approxiately 10…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Hartford, Eidenshink, Werth
The use of satellite remote sensing to assess vegetation greenness was investigated over the Western United States in 1989 and expanded to the entire conterminous United States during l990. This study utilizes the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data acquired by…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Lee
Linear programming techniques are used to optimally place fire suppression resources in a presuppression role. Travel times required to reach individual cells within a forest region (attack times) are calculated using fire behavior models and attack time objective sizes or…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hargrove, Gardner, Turner, Romme
Future long-term (ca. 100 year) trends in fire frequency and burn patterns were investigated in the subalpine plateau of Yellowstone National Park, USA, using EMBYR, a probabilistic, spatially-explicit fire simulation model. The central subalpine plateau (85 km x 82 km) was…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Archibald, Luke, Coneybeare
'Burning earlier in the season may reduce the need for pre-burn vegetation management treatments (e.g. herbicide application) on some sites...Burning in late spring to take advantage of low green-up levels may result in greater rates of fire spread and allow for reduced…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
PLUMP is a general -purpose, one-dimensional plume rise model for wildfire and prescribed fire planning. It calculates the characteristics of fire plu8mes, including vertical velocity, water content, excess temperature, rain, and ice. The model can also be used to determine the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Weirich, Johnson
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lawson, Armitage, Dalrymple
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Eenigenburg, Main
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fujioka, Meisner, McCutchan
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch, Hoskins, Hoskins
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mercer, Weber
A model for the plume above a line fire in a cross wind is constructed. This problem is shown to reduce to numerically solving a system of 6 coupled ordinary differential equations for given initial conditions that depend upon the fire characteristics. The model is valid above…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Biging
Effects of wind velocity and slope on fire spread rate and flame length were examined. Fuel beds of vertical sticks (13.97 cm x 0.455 cm x 0.1 10 cm) and coarse excelsior were burned in an open-topped tilting wind tunnel. Mean fuel moisture content of sticks and excelsior was 11…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fric, Roshko
Structural features resulting from the interaction of a turbulent jet issuing transversely into a uniform stream are described with the help of flow visualization and hot-wire anemometry. Jet-to-crossflow velocity ratios from 2 to 10 were investigated at crossflow Reynolds…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The importance of case histories and/or studies of wildfire have been highlighted by fire control, fire research, and fire weather personnel (e..g., Turner et al. 1961; Luke and McArthur 1978). Chandler (1976) notes that 'Time and time again case histories have proven their…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES