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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Tsang
Laboratory experiments on line thermals are performed. Richards' earlier experimental findings are examined. Better experimental constants for the governing equations of a thermal are obtained. Quantitative comparison between the theoretical flow pattern obtained by Csanady's…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
'If it hadn't been for that damn fire whirl we would have caught it at 5 acres,' yelled the fire boss to his assistant as they watched the fire crews mop up the final smoldering spots in a 250-acre brush fire. The fire had been contained at about 5 acres, and the crew had just…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Countryman
'Humidity' is an eight-letter word that is heard around fire camps and on the fireline almost as often as the more widely known four-letter words. Most firefighters know that humidity has something to do with moisture in the air. If it is low, they expect difficulty in…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roussopoulos
Summary of fire intensity levels, flame length, and fire description and control actions.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuettner
It is now well known that parallel cloud bands are widespread in the earth's atmosphere. Observations from manned and unmanned spacecraft and from high-altitude aircraft in connection with soundings from ships and ground stations have shed light on their origin. These and a…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wood, Blackshear, Jr., Eckert
Quantitative experimental measurements include burning rate, wick temperature distribution, and flame radiation heat flux distributions to the fuel surface as a function of time after ignition. The radiation heat flux is measured with four radiometers which view the flame from…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Mara
Animal exposure studied and large scale fire data indicate that one of the early life hazards in a developing fire is from the generation of carbon monoxide and other combustion gases. A gas chromatograph as been interfaced to an NBS Smoke Chamber to study the rate of generation…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kourtz, O'Regan
A computer-based model of a small smouldering or creeping forest fire has been designed to simulate burned and burning areas of a fire at any time after ignition. The model assumes that a fire spreads in a grid whose squares are homogeneous fuel types. The arrangement of fuel…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George
The effectiveness of long-term fire retardants is related to the concentration of the active fire-inhibiting salt. Quality control at each retardant base is necessary to assure that maximum effectiveness is obtained. This note describes simple field methods for determing the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright
There are many uses for prescribed burning in the management of forests, chaparral, grasslands, watersheds, and wildlife. Some of these uses have been pointed out in this paper. There are also many dangers in using fire, both in its application and in its results. To minimize…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson, Dell
Today more than a billion acres of forest and rangeland in the United States are managed under some form of organized fire protection. On much of this wildland, there is a buildup of flammable fuels that under critical burning conditions can feed disastrous forest fires. The…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weaver
[from the text] As we walked onto the beach at Bandon, Oregon that evening in late August 1933, we beheld to the north a tremendous wall of yellow smoke, thousands of feet high. It extended out over the ocean, seemingly to infinity, and slightly to the right of the setting sun.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright
Both the landforms and the vegetation of the earth develop to states that are maintained in dynamic equilibrium. Short-term equilibrium of a hillslope or river valley results from intersection between erosional and depositional tendencies, controlled by gravitational force and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogl
...fire has been generally misrepresented. It is a neglected factor in many forests. Fire needs public understanding and acceptance. We should compare fire's beneficial effects to its well-known detrimental effects before we dismiss all fire as bad, and all wood smog as…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Hilton
This paper reports on the effects on lowbush blueberries and associated species of pruning by two methods of burning and by mechanical clipping, on three dates in the growing season at a north-eastern Ontario location. Significant soil changes recorded during the study are…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lancaster
Increased capabilities of the National Fire Danger Rating System have given fire managers new tools for evaluating various facets of fire management problems. Examples of suggested approaches for use of NFDR numbers in prevention, presuppression planning, and in initial attack…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
Mensurational parameters of a range of lodgepole pine stands were correlated with loading of individual fuel components and the total fuel complex. Except for the aerial fuel components consisting of dead complex were considered inadequate for the modern fire control…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
A model for a small forest fire... to simulate burned and burning areas for use in a detection model
A computer-based model of a small smouldering or creeping forest fire has been designed to simulate burned and burning ares of a fire at any time after ignition. The model assumes that a fire spreads in a grid for a specific cover is determined by a probability distribution and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg, Schroeder
Fuel moisture inputs into fire-danger rating or fire behavior models are generally related to fuel classes. To account for as many fuels as possible and still keep the number of inputs to a minimum, we have adopted the procedure of adjusting the fine fuel moisture with respect…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nautiyal, Doan
The existing levels of fire protection expenditures, if considered adequate by the forest manager, give an idea of the nonwood values of a forest as seen by him. The decisions regarding future protection expenditures can be improved by considering them together with the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
The purposes of this study are to: 1. provide burning prescriptions for hazard reduction; 2. determine if burning will improve planting-crew efficiency by reducing the physical barrier of slash accumulations; 3. evaluate the effect of burning on reversal of site deterioration by…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
The results of this study clearly indicate that during the 5-year period covered by the fire reports, the fire load during periods of High and Extreme danger exceeds the capability of the fire control agency. Changing land values and future land management demands point to the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergen
The linear correlation computed for 22 points in a lodgepole pine canopy suggests independence between the point-to-point variations in speed at any level and variations of total canopy cover.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS