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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

Type

Topic

Year

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Heat of preignition of three woody fuels used in wildfire modeling research

Susott
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fuels for predicting fire behavior

Johnson
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A method to determine heat-caused mortality in bunchgrasses

Wright
[no description entered]
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Intensity as a third factor of disturbance regime and its effect on species diversity

Malanson
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Some considerations pertaining to the problem of wood-burning

Kanury, Blackshear
[no description entered]
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Firebrand trajectory study using empirical velocity-dependent burning law

Lee, Hellman
[no description entered]
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Height of stem-bark char underestimates flame length in prescribed burns

Cain
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Two keys for appraising forest fire fuels

Fahnestock
[no description entered]
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Preattack planning, including the four stages of the Alaska fire season

Burrows
BLM Alaska Fire Service agency guide from 1984 detailing the process of preattack planning for wildfire. This historical guide details the process of collecting, evaluating, and recording fire intelligence data for successful decision making in the initial suppression of…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Visibility through fire smoke [kemuri-chu no shitei]

Jin
From the summary:'Experimental study on the visibility through fire smoke was carried out. The relation among the brightness of sign, visual distance, and the extinction coefficient of smoke at the instant of obscuration threshold was obtained by using the smoke chamber. The…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation damage detection and assessment: the photographic approach

Murtha
The purpose of this paper is to discuss why and how the remote sensing photographic approach can be used in the detection and assessment of vegetation damage. The necessary attributes of the interpreter are mentioned, along with the need to clearly define and outline the…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A process for designing fire prescriptions

Brown
From the Final Remarks...'Designing fire prescriptions to meet today's demand for skill and professionalism requires an orderly planning process. At the start of this process, fire objectives must be derived from land managment objectives and specifically stated in terms of what…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire detection using the NOAA-series satellites

Matson, Schneider, Aldridge, Satchwell
This report discusses the potential usefulness of thermal infrared sensors onboard NOAA polar-orbiting satelites for detecting fires. In particular, the 3.8-micron channel is sensitive to high temperature sources such as fires. This paper will demonstrate how the 3.8-micron…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A photographic technique for use with stem analysis

Biging, Wensel
A method of photographing and digitizing radial growth on section rounds from destructively sampled trees for stem analysis was developed and compared in accuracy against hand measurements on those same rounds. Results indicated a high degree of correlation between photographic…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Canadian forest fire danger rating system: an update

Alexander
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sampling and estimation of conifer mortality using large-scale color aerial photography

Hamilton
Methods are described for sampling and estimating mortality rates using strips of large-scale color aerial photography as the primary sampling unit. The methods have been designed to be used in situations where steep terrain and the lack of a radar altimeter make it very…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Laboratory facility for wind-aided firespread along a fuel matrix

Fleeter, Fendell, Cohen, Gat, White
Urban and wildland fires propagate via ignition of discrete fuel elements.Transfer of heat from burning to nonburning fuel is strongly influenced by wind because of its effects on combustion rates, on convective flow patterns, and on radiative transfer owing to its modification…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulation modeling for wildlife suppression

Smith
Large suppression programs have been organized in an effort to avoid the potentially large damages from wildfires. To help determine the efficient sizes and usage of these programs, simulation models have been developed. Recent widespread implementation of one such model --…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The modeling of pulsating fires

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.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire spread in solid fuel arrays

Berlad
A theoretical model is constructed that represents quasi-steady fire spread in solid fuel arrays. The continuum representation employs descriptors that follow naturally from existing flame theory and that correspond to real observables. A set of 'debris conservation equations'…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Spotting distance from wind-driven surface fires - extensions of equations for pocket calculators

Chase
Extends equations for calculating the maximum spot fire distance to include wind-driven fires burning in surface fuels as a firebrand source. Predictions are based upon prevailing windspeed, vegetational cover, and local terrain. The equations can be used on a programmable…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The modeling of fire whirlwinds

Byram, Martin
The fire whirlwind, an erratic and violent phenomenon associated with the behavior of intense fires, may generate velocities comparable to those reached in tornadoes. All the conditions essential to the formation of fire whirlwinds can be readily produced in the laboratory on a…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Residual ordination analysis: a method for exploring vegetation environment relationships

Carleton
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Heat of preignition of three woody fuels used in wildfire modeling research

Susott
Differential scanning calorimetry has been applied to three woody laboratory fuels studied in current wildland fire modeling research. The heat required to increase a fuel's temperature to ignition is an important modeling parameter affecting the rate of fire spread. Below 200Â…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Spotting distance from wind-driven surface fires-extensions of equations for pocket calculators

Chase
Extends equations for calculating the maximum spot fire distance to include wind-driven fires burning in surface fuels as a firebrand source. Predictions are based upon prevailing windspeed, vegetational cover, and local terrain. The equations can be used on a programmable…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES