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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Schullery
From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

McCleese
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Stocks, Lawson, Alexander, Van Wagner, McAlpine, Lynham, Dube
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Johnson, Woodward, Titus
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Payette, Morneau, Sirois, Desponts
The recent fire history of northern Quebec biomes (54 000 km2), including the northern Boreal Forest, the southern and northern Forest—Tundra, and the Shrub Tundra, was documented by examining size and dates of 20th century wildfires using tree ring techniques. Results showed…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Chrosciewicz
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hartigan
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hirsch
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Romme, Despain
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Martell, Bevilacqua, Stocks
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Finney
[From the Introduction] Fire as a landscape process is of broad interest to ecologists and land managers. Fires alter forest age-distributions (Heinselman, 1973; Van Wagner, 1978), are sensitive to climate (Balling et al., 1992, Swetnam and Bettancourt, 1990; Swetnam, 1993;…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Gardner, Romme, Turner
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wotton, McAlpine, Hobbs
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

McAlpine
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rittenhouse
From the text...'The help desk staff works closely with all agencies involved in wildland fire and aviation manage­ment to provide technical updates, new and updated applications, and notifications affecting fire applica­tion users. The help desk currently supports more than 40…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bunton
From the text...'In May 1998, the National Advisory Group for Fire Danger Rating reviewed and approved a new weather observation data transfer format (WxObs98)...This decision signals the impending retirement of the weather observation format developed for the 1972 version of…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Albright, Meisner
From the text...'A fire simulation system combines an underlying fire prediction model with a fire simulation technique. By categorizing the various types of fire prediction models and simulation techniques, we can identify the similarities and differences among the systems. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Finney, Andrews
From the text...'The FARSITE Fire Area Simulator is a computer program designed to simulate fire growth using existing models of fire behavior found in the BEHAVE Fire Behavior Prediction and Fuel Modeling System (Andrews 1986) and in the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Werth
From the text...'In conclusion, El Niño and La Niña are extreme phases of a naturally occurring climatic cycle known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation. Both affect wind and sea surface temperature patterns in the tropical Pacific Ocean. El Niño is the warm water and La Niña…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

McRae
A series of experimental fires was conducted to document point-source fire growth burning on full-tree harvested jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) sites with a feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi (B.S.G.) Mitt.) duff layer. Results showed that the time for any of the fires to…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hamilton, Salazar, Palmer
Controlling wildfires within the wildland/urban interface has proven to be the most complex challenge facing wildland fire agencies. Although program improvements to increase the efficiency of interface suppression efforts have been suggested, the availability of information…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Flannigan, Litwin
Wet and dry bulb temperatures from ventilated and non-ventilated screens can be used to obtain realistic values of relative humidity provided the appropriate psychometric coefficient is used. However, relative humidity from non-ventilated screens are subject to significant error…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Smith
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

McEneaney
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Higgins, Kruse, Piehl
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS