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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Anonymous
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vasconcelos, Guertin
FIREMAP is a simulation system designed to estimate wildfire characteristics in spatially non-uniform environments and simulate the growth of fire in discrete time steps. This simulation system integrates Rothermel's behavior prediction model (Rothermel 1972) with a raster-…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heilman, Fast
A two-dimensional, nonhydrostatic, coupled, earth/atmospheric model has been used to simulate mean and turbulent atmospheric characteristics near lines of extreme surface heating. Prognostic equations are used to solve for the horizontal and vertical wind components, potential…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ball, Guertin
Recent developments in the use of GIS for spatial dynamic modeling has resulted in improved fire growth simulations. This paper examines previous growth models and some of their weaknesses. We then define what would be required to handle the growth of surface fire within a…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Martin
The concept of a passive flame height sensor involves thin strings permeated with fire retardant or solder which record heights of flame contact. Both types of sensors were calibrated during 12 experimental test fires with respect to flame heights measured on video tape. Three…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heilman
A two-dimensional nonhydrostatic atmospheric model was used to simulate the circulation patterns (wind and vorticity) and turbulence energy fields associated with lines of extreme surface heating on simple two-dimensional hills. Heating-line locations and ambient crossflow…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kanjanakunchorn, Woodard, McCornick, McDonald
Water is frequently used to contain wild or prescribed fires in a wildland situation. In this paper, we show why the commonly-available, relatively inexpensive garden-type soaker hose can be effectively used to contain fires. We present results on such performance…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viney
A practical means of quanming the diffusivities of forest fuels from field data is presented. The mathematics of this method is explored for four fuel shapes: a litter layer, a hardwood leaf, a twig and a square fuel moisture analogue stick, which are represented geometrically…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
Description not entered.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen, Andrews
Predicting fire behavior in nonuniform fuel arrays is a problem requiring: 1. A method of assessing fuel nonuniformity, 2. A method of simulating fuel nonuniformity, and 3. An algorithm governing fire spread through a simulated array. Satisfying these requirements is the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fuquay, Baughman, Latham
A model has been developed for predicting the number of lightning-fire ignitions in wildland fuels. The model is based on both stochastic and physical processes. Stochastic methods are used to generalize the lightning storm characteristics and site conditions that affect the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George
Studies of the performance of fire retardant delivery systems for fixed-wing aircraft have indicated that performance can be significantly improved by modifying delivery systems to allow the selectable and controllable flow of retardant from the tank. The report describes…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Latham
Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loftsgaarden, Andrews
Logistic regression was used in examining the relationship between National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) indexes and historical fire occurrence data. Basic techniques of constructing and testing logistic regression models are presented at a modest mathematical level. The…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
This report discusses fire-related research needs in the western regions of the Forest Service. These needs were expressed by personnel at all management levels. Responses were one part of a more general study designed to establish information requirements for integrating fire…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Borden
A discussion on the impacts to fire management resulting from various acts of legislation including NEPA, the Clean Air Act, the Wilderness Act, and the National Forest Management Act.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Egging
Today, natural resource managers and scientists are required to evaluate and even anticipate the effects that management practices for a single resource will have on the production or use of all other natural resources. For example, a successful prescribed fire will accomplish…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips
Some of you may be like I am: a thick-skinned, hard-of-hearing traditionalist. For many years we fire fighters, fire managers, and resource managers have been bombarded, lambasted and harangued about the need to integrate fire and fire management into plans for managing wildland…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyon
Land use planning has truly reached a high plateau in this country. Planning is firmly entrenched and here to stay. With the population increase and therefore increased resource demands, our resource producing land base is shrinking. We must strive for maximum production on the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cutler
[From the text] The topics to be discussed today are certainly timely and deserve your attention. I feel it is significant that your working group is trying to involve landowners, managers and planners. Fire was a front page news story this summer. The severe fire situation…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A compilation of papers presented at the Society of American Foresters, Fire Working Group technical session held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2-6, 1977. The keynote address by Dr. M. Rupert Cutler, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture established the session's perspective…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan
A fire danger/fire behavior Custom Read Only Memory (CROM) has been developed for the Texas Instruments model 59 hand held calculator. It can be used to compute both 1978 National Fire Danger Rating indexes and components and several variables used to estimate wildfire behavior…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
Presents a predictive model for calculating the maximum spot fire distance expected when firebrands are thrown into the air by the burning of tree crowns. Variables included are: quantity and surface/volume ratio of foliage in the burning tree(s), height of the tree(s), and the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini, Baughman
This paper presents formulae, tables, and figures that can be used to estimate the ratio of mean windspeed acting on the flame from a spreading wildland fire to the mean windspeed 20 ft (6 m) above the vegetation cover. The formulae for windspeed above uniform, continuous…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rothermel
The fire behavior nomograms are excerpted from How to Predict the Spread and Intensity of Forest and Range Fuel, by Richard C. Rothermel, with the exception of the nomogram for fuel model #7 which was updated for this publication.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES