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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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A rule of thumb for estimating a wildfire's forward spread rate

Alexander, Cruz
We have devised a rule of thumb for obtaining a first approximation of a fire’s spread rate that wildland fire operations personnel may find valuable in certain situations. It is based on the premise that under certain conditions wind speed is the dominant factor in determining…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The effect of fire severity on postfire recovery of hazel and raspberry in east-central Alberta

Johnston, Woodward
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An evaluation of burning for control of winter ticks, dermacentor albipictus, in central Alberta

Drew, Samuel, Lukiwski, Willman
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

National Fire-Danger Rating System: user's guide

From the text...'INTRODUCTION This guide gives forest managers a description of the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS), and explains the standards and procedures involved. It contains a brief explanation of the basic structure and factors considered and incorporates…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Meteorological tools for wilderness fire management

Fox, Blankenship, Dietrich
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Technology and scientific advancement in fire and forest meteorology

Sommers
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effect of drought on live fuel moisture content

Johansen
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A decade with the Forestry Weather Interpretation System (FWIS)

Paul, Pierovich
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The sensitivity of the Palmer Drought Severity Index and Palmer's Z-index to their calibration coefficients including potential evapotranspiration

Karl
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Palmer Drought Index and its availability as an indicator of forest fire watch areas

Heddinghaus
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Drought and synoptic fire climatology of the boreal forest region of the Canada prairie provinces

Street
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Extrapolation of wind, temperature, and humidity on a conically-shaped mountain

McCutchan
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Moisture and fine forest fuel

Anderson
The dynamics of the fine forest fuel's response to moisture changes have not been fully recognized. Fire behavior systems now in use consider all fine fuels to have a 1-hour response time. Experimental results of testing a wide range of fine fuels show the change in moisture…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The 500mb anomaly chart: a useful fire management tool

Janz, Nimchuk
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Objective methods for fire weather network design

Fujioka
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Probability modeling of a fire weather index

Fujioka, Tsou
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire weather program preliminary survey results

Parker
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Quantification of the uncertainty in spot fire-weather forecasts: some experimental results

Brown, Murphy, Radloff
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forecasting fire danger and fire occurrence for wilderness fire management

Saveland
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weather -- the drive train connecting the solar engine to forest ecosystems: Proceedings of the Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology, No. 8

[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Land Use, Land Cover, and Forests in a Changing Climate: Findings from the Fourth National Climate Assessment

Wickham, Vose, Peterson
The Nation’s authoritative assessment of climate impacts, the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States (NCA4 Vol. II) was released in November 2018. This presentation will address the impacts of climate change on land cover…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Development and evaluation of a Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Solver in WindNinja for operational wildland fire applications

Wagenbrenner, Forthofer, Page, Butler
An open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver has been incorporated into the WindNinja modeling framework. WindNinja is widely used by wildland fire managers, as well as researchers and practitioners in other fields, such as wind energy, wind erosion, and search and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

NOAA-NWS Analysis of Record (RTMA/URMA) Update and NWS Support to Air Resource Advisors

Leach
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. The National Weather Service (NWS) Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) has been developed to provide a national standard Analysis of Record (AoR) for large scale verification and bias-correction efforts. The RTMA…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Use of NWP models to identify convective outflows for fire weather forecasting - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Powers, Bresch, Schwartz, Coen, Sobash
Abrupt changes in wind direction and speed can dramatically impact wildfire development and spread. Most importantly, such changes can pose significant problems to firefighting efforts and have resulted in a number of fire fatalities over the years. Frequent causes of such wind…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Modeling ground firefighting resource activities to manage risk given uncertain weather

Belval, Wei, Bevers
Wildland firefighting requires managers to make decisions in complex decision environments that hold many uncertainties; these decisions need to be adapted dynamically over time as fire behavior evolves. Models used in firefighting decisions should also have the capability to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES