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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander, Lanoville
The behavior of free-burning forest fires is controlled by the fire environment (i.e., the surrounding conditions, influences, and modifying forces of topography, fuels, and weather). Successful fire management depends very heavily upon, among other things, an intimate knowledge…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
Some basic fire behavior phenomena are described in terms of analytical solutions to simple physical models for the heating of unburned fuel to ignition temperature by radiation from the combustion region. The most interesting result is a model for the intrinsic acceleration…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Chase
The BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system is a set of interactive computer programs. BEHAVE provides mathematical prediction models in one easy-to-use package. This paper describes prediction capabilities that have been added to the system. Since 1984, BEHAVE…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chrosciewicz
Moisture contents of organic forest-floor materials were studied by strata in a semi-mature jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) stand in relation to their within-stand locations and changes in both duff moisture code and fine fuel moisture code, the two weather-based components of…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chrosciewicz
Moisture contents of organic forest-floor materials were studied by strata on a clear-cut jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) site in relation to slash distribution and changes in both duff moisture code and fine fuel moisture code, the two weather-based components of the Canadian…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fritts, Swetnam
This chapter reviews basis for some fundamental techniques, principles, and practices of dendroecology. Dendroecology refers to applications of dendrochronological techniques to problems in ecology. The important ecological problems for which dendroecological techniques are well…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, de Groot
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
West
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks
The expanding use of prescribed fire to achieve North American land management objectives has led, in recent years, to the increased use of helicopter-ignition, large-scale controlled burns. These mass-ignition convection burns often generate extremely intense and erratic fire…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A scheme is presented for dealing with the full range of fire behavior in conifer forests. It is based on empirical data from fires in Canadian forests plus a theory to describe the physical conditions for the transition from surface to crown fire. In its ideal form, the model…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Lawson, Alexander, Van Wagner, McAlpine, Lynham, Dube
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higgins, Kruse, Piehl
Fire has been used inconsistently to manage native and tame grasslands in the Northern Great Plains (NGP) of the north-central U.S. and south-central Canada, particularly the grasslands found in prairies, plains, agricultural land retirement programs, and moist soil sites. This…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Feunekes, Methven
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harvey, Jurgensen, Graham
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hanson, Rowdabaugh
A 5-year (1984-88) study of fire costs and acreages burned under fire plans in Alaska was conducted by the Bureau of Land Management. Effects of classification and management of suppression areas as critical protection, full protection, modified action, and limited action are…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flannigan, Wotton
Canadian fire control agencies use either simple interpolation methods or none at all in estimating fire danger between weather stations. We compare several methods of interpolation and use the fire weather index in the North Central Region of Ontario as a case study. Our work…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cofer, Levine, Sebacher, Winstead, Riggan, Stocks, Brass, Ambrosia, Boston
Low-level helicopter flights were used to collect samples of smoke from burning chaparral in southern California and over a boreal forest fire in norther Ontario, Canada. The smoke plume samples were analyzed for carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), methane…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bonan, Shugart
A discussion of the interrelationships between climate, solar radiation, soil moisture, soil temperature and permafrost, forest floor organic layer, nutrient availability, fire regime and insect outbreaks in boreal forests throughout the circumpolar region.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Frandsen
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS