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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
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Cushwa
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the text ... 'This paper is an attempt to bring about a better ecological understanding of lightning and lightning fires, as they concern living organsms and their habitat. The comprehension of these forces is difficult because of their great variability....'From the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright, Beall
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
[no description entered]
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
González-Cabán, McKetta
Economically sound decisions on fuel treatment require knowledge of treatment costs. Fuel treatment costs derived using an economic cost concept on two National Forests were found to be higher than reported by accounting methods. Costs are sufficiently high and variable to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner
This note outlines the objectives and problems of prescribed burning as a tool of forest management. The importance of a number of weather factors is discussed and suggestions are presented for provision of effective weather guidance to forest officers concerned with this…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Johnston
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis
Game theory and decision theory could help a fireboss evaluate strategies to use in forest fire control. This paper describes several types of matrix games, subjective utility, and various criteria for strategy selection. It shows, in scenario forms, how decision theory might be…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Breuer
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murray, Countryman
Heat-resistant anemometers have been developed for measuring horizontal and vertical air flow in fire behavior studies. The anemometers will continue to produce data as long as the anemometer body is less than 650°F. They can survive brief immersion in flame without major…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Susott
Describes how to compute indexes and components for the 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System using the Hewlett-Packard 71B handheld calculator and custom memory. Predicting fire behavior with the HP-71B is described in a separate publication, "Fire Behavior Computations with…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Susott, Burgan
This report describes the operation of the fire behavior prediction program available as a Custom Read Only Memory (CROM) for the Hewlett-Packard model 71B handheld calculator. Worked examples are given for each of the 13 program modules, and the inputs and outputs are…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keetch, Byram
The moisture content of the upper soil, as well as that of the covering layer of duff, has an important effect on the fire suppression effort in forest and wildland areas. In certain forested areas of the United States, fires in deep duff fuels are of particular concern to the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Slaughter, Viereck
The studies described in this volume were conducted in the boreal forest zone of central Alaska. This high-latitude setting has a continental climate characterized by low annual precipitation (285 mm at Fairbanks), low humidity, low cloudiness, and large diurnal and annual…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES