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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Viegas, Neto
Modelling of the wind effect on the rate of spread of a flame in a forest fire usually employs a wind velocity measured at mid-flame height. An alternative formulation is proposed in this paper, based on the wall shear-stress produced by the wind on the fuel bed in the absence…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads, Ueyoshi, Chen, Alpert, Fujioka
The forecast skill of the National Meteorological Center's medium range forecast (MRF) numerical forecasts of fire weather variables is assessed for the period June 1,1988 to May 31,1990. Near-surface virtual temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and a derived fire weather…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
The mathematical structure of a model of a spreading wildfire which includes chemical kinetic effects, as well as heat transfer, is outlined in general terms. Reference to a simple example which has been intensively studied demonstrates some of the salient features. A more…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viney
Models describing the moisture content of forest fuels are an integral component of most fire behaviour prediction systems. In this paper, models of all aspects of moisture change in fine, dead, surface litter are examined and reviewed. Included are models describing the changes…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viney, Catchpole
The response time of a fuel element is defined in terms of the response to a step change in moisture content, and is not measurable in the field. However the formulation of fine fuel moisture content as a continuous process leads to a simple relationship between the response…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
González-Cabán, Shinkle, Mills
Evaluating economic efficiency of fire management program options requires information on the firefighting inputs, such as vehicles and crews, that would be needed to execute the program option selected. An algorithm was developed to translate automatically dollars allocated to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Zasada, Chapin
The pattern of primary succession on the floodplain of the Tanana River in interior Alaska resulted largely from interactions between stochastic events and life history traits of the dominant species. Seed rain by willow (Salix alaxensis), alder (Alnus tenuifolia), poplar (…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reap
Archived lightning data from the Bureau of Land Management automated network of direction-finding stations in Alaska were examined to determine the seasonal, diurnal, and spatial distributions of cloud-to-ground lightning, including the effects of the underlying topography on…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prentice
Vegetation responses to climatic change can be studied retrospectively by utilizing the Quaternary fossil record. There has been controversy over the extent to which major changes in vegetation patterns at the continental scale lag behind the climatic changes that drive them,…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen, Spies, Swanson, Ohmann
In this article, we review patterns of disturbance succession in natural forests in the Coastal Northwest and compare structure and composition across an age gradient of unmanaged stands. Stand and landscape patterns in managed forests are then examined and compared with those…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cwynar, Spear
Pollen and plant macrofossil analyses of sediments from three sites in the central Yukon that are presently in shrub tundra provided a record of former forest establishment. Shrub tundra with groves and gallery forest of balsam poplar occupied the region between 10 000 and 8000…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berger, Loutre
New values for the astronomical parameters of the Earth's orbit and rotation (eccentricity, obliquity and precession) are proposed for paleoclimatic research related to the Late Miocene, the Pliocene and the Quaternary. They have been obtained from a numerical solution of the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bartlein, Anderson, Edwards, McDowell
Paleoclimatic variations in a particular region can be viewed as the outcome of the superimposition of the effects of a number of large-scale controls. A framework for understanding paleoclimatic variations in a region can be established by considering the long-term history of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee, Huff
An increment borer is a precision instrument specially designed to extract a thin cylinder of wood from a tree, shrub, log or pole. It is available in a variety of sizes ranging in length from 4 inches to 40 inches. Although the increment borer is essentially a very simple…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shands
Abstract is not available online.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Radke, Hegg, Hobbs, Nance, Lyons, Laursen, Weiss, Riggan, Ward
n this chapter we describe the results of airborne studies of smokes from 17 biomass fuel fires, including 14 prescribed fires and 3 wildfires, burned primarily in the temperate zone of North America between 34° and 49°N latitude. The prescribed fires were in forested lands…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gehring, George
Forest fire retardants can corrode aircraft and mixing, storage, and handling facilities. Extent and severity of corrosion depend on the metals involved, specific exposure, and other factors. This report provides a nontechnical description of the mechanics of such corrosion and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Susott
Describes how to compute indexes and components for the 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System using the Hewlett-Packard 71B handheld calculator and custom memory. Predicting fire behavior with the HP-71B is described in a separate publication, "Fire Behavior Computations with…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Johnson
Onsite fire retardant effectiveness is dependent on a retardant's physical (rheological) and chemical (active fire-inhibiting salt) properties. Quality control at each retardant base is necessary to assure cost-effectiveness is achieved. Using relatively simple techniques,…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Haines, Main
Wind tunnel measurements of temperature and velocity fields of a buoyant plume and vortex pair that formed above a heated nichrome wire are described. The differential heating and subsequent temperature gradient, transverse to the main stream flow, produced the longitudinal…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Soma, Saito
This work was motivated from the knowledge of a historical fire whirl accident in which a fire whirl was responsible for 38,000 deaths and serious damage to the environment, all of which happened within 15 minutes. To understand the general features of fire whirls, records of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCleese, Nichols, Walton
In this paper, several innovations to the firefighting process are summarized. Organizational innovations include the Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Protection Initiative, common interagency emergency management procedures, and the National Interagency Incident Management System…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Susott, Burgan
This report describes the operation of the fire behavior prediction program available as a Custom Read Only Memory (CROM) for the Hewlett-Packard model 71B handheld calculator. Worked examples are given for each of the 13 program modules, and the inputs and outputs are…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Susott
If your Texas Instruments TI-59 is nearing its last gasp, you can replace it with a newer calculator and enjoy the use of improved fire danger and fire behavior programs. The Hewlett-Packard HP-71B handheld calculator has been selected to replace the TI-59 and is now available…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
Describes BURN Subsystem, Part 1, the operational fire behavior prediction subsystem of the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. The manual covers operation of the computer program, assumptions of the mathematical models used in the calculations, and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS