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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Davis, Lyon
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chambers
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Auclair
Postfire recovery of biomass and soil organic pools was measured in a sequence of 10 subarctic lichen woodlands aged from 0 to 140 years. Less than one-tenth of total live biomasss combusted at the time of burning. Aboveground biomass combustion of species ranged from nil to…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bonnicksen, Stone
National park resource management planning requires ecological information describing the objectives to be achieved. This information must be quantitative and unambiguous. Since most acts creating United States national parks, beginning with the Yellowstone National Park Act of…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Wein
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Goodman, Lester
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ritchie
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knapp, Gilliam
Photosynthetic pigments and several structural characteristics were measured in leaves of Andropogon gerardii from tallgrass prairie populations in an unburned, low-irradiance site and a burned, high-irradiance site to determine if these species displayed sun/shade differences…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
An empirical relationship was derived between the ratio of total length to maximum width or breadth (L/B) of wind-driven forest fires on level terrain originating from a point source ignition and the international standard 10-m open wind (W). The relation is based on the wind…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Moore
This guide, based on a literature review and personal contacts, offers recommendations and standards for procedures in reducing losses of residences from wildfires. Possible solutions to the problem of fire protection are discussed in the broad areas of land-use planning and…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bratten, Davis, Flatman, Keith, Rapp, Storey
FOCUS (Fire Operational Characteristics Using Simulation) is a computer simulation model for evaluating alternative fire management plans. This final report provides a broad overview of the FOCUS system, describes two major modules-fire suppression and cost, explains the role in…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen, Deeming
Updating the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) was completed in 1977, and operational use of it was begun the next year. The System provides a guide to wildfire control and suppression by its indexes that measure the relative potential of initiating fires. Such fires do…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Viereck
Chapter in the book titled, Forest succession: concepts and application.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goldstein
[Not the abstract; do not cite.] Primarily dedicated to the influence of climate on white spruce near treeline; dendrochronological samples were used to reconstruct stand age and describe the history of disturbance for treeline stands of white spruce in the south-central Brooks…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Farjon, Bogaers
Description not entered.
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards, Dunwiddie
Sexual and clonal reproduction is occurring in a stand of Populus balsamifera on the Alaskan North Slope. Both even-aged and gradually expanding clones were observed. Trees attain ages in excess of 230 yr, but are slender due to slow diametrical growth (1.4 to 2.5 mm yr-1). A…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blakely
Proposes a method for quantifying the fire-extinguishing capabilities of plain water and water with thickeners and fire-retarding chemicals added. Flaming pine needle fuel beds were sprayed with different water/chemical combinations while energy release rates were continuously…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Van Meter, George
Based on the hypothesis that the spatial distribution on the ground of fire retardant materials, dropped from fixed-wing aircraft, must be a result of the physical properties of the retardant, a series of experiments has been run to measure the dispersal patterns obtained with…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Baughman
Lists and annotates 326 references on wind velocity. Most references relate to wind acting within the local scale of forest fires. Citations are cross-referenced by subject and author.
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Warren, Vance
Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) have been developed and are now operational across the nation in a variety of geographical areas. RAWS acquire, process, store, and transmit accumulative precipitation, wind-speed, wind direction, air temperature, fuel temperature,…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Warren, Wilson
Provides a brief history of USDA Forest Service infrared (IR) research, current status of image systems in development, and future plans and projected uses of infrared imagery. Describes status of Forest Service IR systems research, development, testing, and usage up to the time…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George
Retardant coverage computers/slide charts have been developed for many aircraft and tank and gating systems in the national airtanker fleet. The computers indicate retardant delivery performance for specific tank and gating systems, and recommend coverage levels for various fuel…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES