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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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An interesting collection of reports of large fires in the Tanana Flats in 1941-1942. Parts of the 1941 fires over-wintered and reappeared in spring 1942—an early record of this phenomenon which sparked a Research Brief in 2020: https://akfireconsortium.files.wordpress.com/2020…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourn
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kopitke
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kittredge
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chang
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kendeigh
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stickel
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Little, Dorman
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clausen, Keck, Hiesey
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Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruce
From the text...'As part of a general forest-fire-research program in recent years, considerable inquiry has been made into the visibility of smoke from forest fires in an attempt to answer the questions: How far can a lookout see a smoke? What are the factors upon which this…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scesa, Sauer
From the Summary ... 'The transfer theory is applied to the problem of atmospheric diffusion of momentum and heat induced by line and point sources of heat on the surface of the earth. In order that the validity of the approximations of the boundary layer theory be realized, the…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hayes
This research ws conducted to determine how forest-fire behavior and its controlling variables differ between altitudes throughout the day on north and south slopes. Observations were made at eight stations, six of them paired on north and south aspects of 5,500-, 3,800-, and 2,…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sidle
Before examining the impacts of forest management practices on surface erosion, it is appropriate to ask the question 'Why should we be concerned with surface erosion?' One of the most important impacts of surface erosion on forest lands is the decrease in site productivity…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrows, Schaefer, MacCready
This report describes the factors which led to the establishment of Project Skyfire and presents the first results of its operation. Skyfire is a program designed to acquire basic scientific information about lightning fires in western forests, the atmospheric and cloud…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shantz
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stelfox
'In trials at Swift Current, Saskatchewan and Lacome, Alberta, the following treatments were used: spring burning and no burning, row spacings 1, 2, 3 and 4 ft. apart and no manure, ammonium phosphate (16-12-0 NPK) at 135 lb. per ac., ammonium phosphate at 250 lb. per ac., and…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangelsdorf
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
[Excerpted from text] Violent or erratic fire behavior often develops as a complete surprise even to the more experienced fire fighters. Such behavior usually is not completely explained and is frequently dismissed with the remark that the fire suddenly "blew up." Unusual fire…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arnold, Buck
"Blow-up" fires are defined as those which exhibit violent build-up in fire intensity or rate of spread sufficient to prevent direct control by efficient application of conventional firefighting methods. Blow-ups are an increasingly important cause of large fires and can arise…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Byram
A study of atmospheric conditions related to blowup fires.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Palmer
Description not entered.
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the forward] Next to crop prices, nothing is more important to the farmer's business than the weather, and in fact the weather often has a strong influence on prices. So every farmer takes a keen interest in the weather, and in many cases he is a weather prophet of no mean…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Description not entered.
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palmer
Notes (Do Not Cite): Paired transects for lichen cover were established on 15 burned/unburned and grazed/ungrazed ranges aged 3 to 41 years, in the Fairbanks, Circle, Delta vicinity. The author estimates that 75% of the lichen range in the 'Fairbanks section' has burned over…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES