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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Changes in solar radiation arising from changes in the orientation of the earth?s axis had pronounced effects on tropical monsoons and mid-latitude climates as well as on ice-sheet configuration during the last 18,000 years. COHMAP (Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project) has…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin
Holocene glacial fluctuations between Arctic, central interior, and southern maritime Alaska are broadly synchronous. This synchrony is evident from a review of work in 11 study areas with varying numbers of glaciers (3-100), glacier types (subpolar cirque, temperate valley,…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliveira, Viegas, Raimundo
A control volume numerical method is used to predict the temperature distribution inside a soil extent, the surface of which has been swept by a two-dimensional flame front with pre-defined velocity and temperature distributions. Natural and forced convection, as well as…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cheney, Gould
The use of the terms 'growth' and 'acceleration' appears to be inconsistent in the literature and we believe this inconsistency has hindered our understanding of behaviour in the early stages of a fire. The development of a fire from a point ignition to some equilibrium state…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Call, Albini
An empirical model is presented which relates fractional reduction in loading to fuel element diameter and moisture content for surface and aerial fuels consumed near the fire front in a spreading crown fire. The model is based upon data from a series of experimental crown fires…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan
The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System does not work well in the humid environment of the Eastern United States. System modifications to correct problems and their operational impact on System users are described. A new set of 20 fuel models is defined and compared…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Phillips, George, Nelson
Presents current (1988) fireline production rates for bulldozers, by size of machine, fuel type, slope, and site conditions. Includes nomograms and a master table for estimating production rates. Describes how data were collected and production rates were calculated.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Blakely
Four commercially available forest fire retardants were studied to quantify their capabilities for flammability reduction using standard laboratory conditions and procedures. All the retardants proved to be closely matched in reducing flammability.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Gehring
The corrosivity of long-term wildland fire retardants delivered by airtankers has been a continuing concern since the beginning of the retardant program in 1955. During the fall of 1986, the severity of corrosion was investigated at air-attack bases in Oregon, California, and…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rees, Juday
Natural fires and logging are the two main disturbances affecting upland boreal forest in central Alaska. Data were collected at 12 logged and 12 burned former white spruce forests in 4 stand development stages: A stage (disturbed 1990-1994); B (1978-1983); C (1957-1965); and D…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yokelson, Susott, Ward, Reardon, Griffith
Biomass samples from a diverse range of ecosystems were burned in the Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory open combustion facility. Midinfrared spectra of the nascent emissions were acquired at several heights above the fires with a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward
The mixture of particles, liquids, and gaseous compounds found in smoke from wildland fires is very complex. The potential for long-term adverse health effects is much greater because of this complex mixture. The particles are known to contain many important organic compounds…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Andrews, Bradshaw, Chase, Hartford, Latham
The Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) since 1994. The WFAS will eventually combine the functionality of the current fire-danger rating system (Deeming et al. 1977) and the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Latham, Burgan, Chase, Bradshaw
Lightning location data are superimposed on lightning ignition potential and on fire danger as experimental phase 1 map products of the Wildland Fire Assessment System. As pilot components of this next generation fire danger/fire behavior system, the maps are designed to help…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Communication and community development for health information: constructs and models for evaluation
The perspective of this review is taken from a deceptively simple vantage: community development and communication. In turn, these derivative fields draw from a wide assortment of more established literature encompassing traditional fields such as sociology, telecommunications,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
A laboratory experiment was performed to determine the effect of slope on the downhill spread rate of forest fire. Results with beds of pine needles showed that the spread rate decreased to 64 percent of the level rate as slope was raised to 22 degrees, then gradually increased…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Small, Heikes
Fires simultaneously burning in hundreds of square kilometers could result from a nuclear weapon explosion. The strong buoyancy field of such large area fires induces high-velocity fire winds that turn upward in the burning region. This results in the vertical transport of a…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines
Dry, unstable air increases the probability that wildland fires will become large and/or erratic. This paper describes an atmospheric index for these fires, based on the environmental lapse rate of a layer of air coupled with its moisture content. In low-elevation regions of the…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Weise, Biging
Wind velocity and slope are two critical variables that affect wildland fire rate of spread. The effects of these variables on rate of spread are often combined in rate-of-spread models using vector addition. The various methods used to combine wind and slope effects have seldom…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Peterson
This document contains a recommendation on obtaining simple, realistic information for an emission inventory of wildland fires appropriate for State Implementation Plan (SIP) development. The minimum precision for the inventory would be a one-year time period (current and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lenihan, Neilson
[Complete Text] Fire regimes are especially sensitive to changes in climate, and broad scale changes in the frequency and severity of fire could be more important near-term determinates of the rates of ecosystem change than more direct effects of global warming. Simulating the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM computes duff and woody fuel consumption, smoke production, and fire-caused tree mortality for most forest and rangeland types in the United States.…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
A computer program, FIRES: Fire Information Retrieval and Evaluation System, provides methods for evaluating the performance of fire danger rating indexes. The relationship between fire danger indexes and historical fire occurrence and size is examined through logistic…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sedjo
ANNOTATION: This paper undertakes a preliminary exploration into the economics of generating energy from forest-based biomass. The study assesses the feasibility of greatly expanding the share of total energy consumption in developed countries that could be economically…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ter-Mikaelian, Korzukhin
ANNOTATION: The paper presents a comprehensive review of the biomass equations for 65 North American tree species. All equations are of the form M = aDb, where M is the oven-dry weight of the biomass component of a tree (kg), D is diameter at breast height (DBH) (cm), and a and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES