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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Year
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Susott
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gill
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loomis
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Malanson
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jaeger
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel, Philpot
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cain
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Main
From the text:'The computer program FIREDAT was run and the cumulate percentage of ignition components used to determine the class boundaries. The only percents green used were10-30-50, corresponding to cured, transition and green in the old system. Since we have an extreme day…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
Van Wagner
This report is a bibliography of publications on all aspects of forest fire produced during the period 1961 to 1974 at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station. There are 52 items, listed chronologically in four categories. A short descriptive note accompanies each item.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roussopoulos
A fuel hazard rating system was devised for eastern logging slash similar to that of the National Fire Danger Rating System. It involves a series of CALCOMP plots that graphically display normalized predictions of rate of spread and fireline intensity as related to slash species…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
Alexander
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
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
Kiil, Silversides
An inexpensive and simple technique for measuring the average wind velocity in the lower 600 m of the atmosphere is proposed. The technique uses 30-g pilot balloons filled with helium. Final position of the balloon is measured by a clinometer and a compass--instruments which are…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Nelson
Buoyancy production rates for a pure heat source and for a fire heat source of burning woody fuels show that fire may be regarded as pure source yielding heated air rather than heated combustion products.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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