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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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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
Jaeger
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel, Philpot
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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Ramberg
From the Introduction:'The objective of EDST 1710, Firing and Line Holding Devices, is to improve safety and efficiency in prescribed burning and wildfire control through the development of equipment for firing and line holding. There has been a need in the past to burn out and…
Year: 1974
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
Kourtz
The efficiency of aerial fire detection patrolling could be significantly improved if a reliable thunderstorm tracking and lighting fire prediction scheme were available. One method to determine the areas over which thunderstorms have passed requires the use of expensive…
Year: 1974
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
Ryabukha
Discusses various practical measures to prevent the spread of fire on forest peat bogs already drained or to be drained. These measures include reduction of the depth or frequency of the drains; the use of sluice-gates to regulate the flow; and the creation of 'dams' across the…
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
Mees
The data necessary for fire simulation may be made available through an algorithm based on tracing of boundaries composed of straight-line segments. Useful assumptions are that if a closed boundary does not contain a given point, then any other closed boundary contained within…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson
Increasing expenditures for forest fire retardant and the development of more efficient delivery systems have emphasized the need for more knowledge on the transmission and retention characteristics of wildland fuels. In a series of tests, retardant was cascaded from an airplane…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lancaster
Increased capabilities of the National Fire Danger Rating System have given fire managers new tools for evaluating various facets of fire management problems. Examples of suggested approaches for use of NFDR numbers in prevention, presuppression planning, and in initial attack…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lancaster
Increased capabilities of the National Fire Danger Rating System have given fire managers new tools for evaluating various facets of fire management problems. These new tools require familiarization processes and new techniques for best and effective application. Suggested…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viereck
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Agee
[From the text] Fire has been an integral part of America's wildlands for millions of years. The only environments not experiencing fire as a significant ecological factor were those that remained very cold, very wet, or very dry, and even in these regions, extreme variation in…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jayaweera, Ahlnas
The Very High Resolution Radiometer of NOAA-2 and -3 can successfully locate and identify thunderstorms. Since lightning fires account for more than 90 percent of the acreage burned by forest fires in Alaska, this imagery promises to be a useful tool for forest fire control.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Baker, Kemperman
A severe infestation of spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis Kby.) in a white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss)-paper birch (Betula papyrifera var.) stand caused 64.6 percent mortality of spruce 5 inches d.b.h. and larger where the infestation was completed. Survival of…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Welker, Duvvuri
From the Introduction:'The technique selected for measuring the pyrolysis energy involved the use of the Perkin-Elmer DSC-2 Differential Scanning Calorimeter and TS-1 Thermogravimetric Balane. The TGS-1 also used a Cahn Time Derivative Computer to provide the rate of weight loss…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS