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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

Type

Topic

Year

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A NOAA-5 view of Alaskan smoke patterns

Ernst, Matson
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Secular climate change in old-growth tree-line vegetation of northern Quebec

Payette, Filion, Gauthier, Boutin
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Late holocene deforestation and tree regeneration in the forest-tundra of Quebec

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

Fire and flood cycles--past and present

Vines
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

What is a prairie ?

Betz
[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Crop protection climate through history

[no description entered]
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

CITPUFF: a Gaussion puff model for estimating pollutant concentration in complex terrain

Ross, Fox, Dietrich, Childs, Marlatt
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire policies and programs for the National Park System

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

Tundra fire regimes in the Noatak River Watershed, Alaska: 1956-83

Racine, Dennis, Patterson
The location, cause, frequency, size, rotation times, and seasonal timing of tundra fires in the Noatak River watershed of northwestern Alaska were determined from Bureau of Land Management fire records for 1956-83 and satellite (LANDSAT) 1:1 000 000 scale, black and white, band…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation development following fire in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests of south-eastern Labrador, Canada

Foster
(1) The pattern of post-fire vegetation development in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests in south-eastern Labrador, Canada, is evaluated using palaeoecological methods and vegetation analysis of extant stands.(2) Macrofossil analysis of mor humus profiles in mature…
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

Nuclear winter: will the forests burn

Reifsnyder, Berry
[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

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

Equations and FORTRAN program for the Canadian forest fire weather index system

Van Wagner, Pickett
Improved official equations are presented for the 1984 version of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. The most recent mathematical refinements serve to further rationalize the Fine Fuel Moisture Code and render it more compatible with other developments in the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire management: a systems approach

Simard
Some basic concepts from the general theory of systems are presented. Six characteristics common to all systems (components, structure, resources, process, control, and objectives)are disussed and related to a fire management context. Wildland fire mangement is examined from a…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning of the boreal mixedwood slash in the Ontario Clay Belt Region

McCrae
Results and analysis of an experimental burning study on the fire behavior in boreal mixedwood slash in the northern Ontario's Clay Belt Region are presented. Horizontal discontinuity in this fuel type makes fire spread difficult when the fire danger rating is low to moderate.…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire management research - need and application

Chandler
No abstract
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lightning -- a preliminary reassessment

Mogil, Rush, Kutka
From the text... 'Lightning continues to be the nation*s number one stormy weather killer. Annual lightning deaths probably exceed 200, although only about one half of these are reported in any single tabulation. Lightning injuries probably exceed 400 annually. Until additional…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Turbulent characteristics of some Canadian cumulus clouds

MacPherson, Isaac
The turbulent characteristics of 17 Canadian cumulus clouds have been documented using the measurements from a specially instrumented T-33 aircraft. Most of the 33 cloud penetrations were made through the tops of cumuli 1—4.5 km in depth. Turbulent energy spectra over a range of…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Verification of experimental probabilistic spot fire-weather forecasts

Brown, Murphy
This report describes a study of the quality of - and uncertainty associated with - spot fire-weather forecasts prepared by National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters. The study involved the formulation of experimental probabilistic spot forecasts at four NWS offices for…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Preliminary tests of a cumulus cloud seeding technique

Isaac, Schemenauer, Crozier, Chisholm, MacPherson, Bobbitt, MacHattie
A cloud seeding technique is proposed which has the objective of stimulating rainfall from cumulus clouds drifting over forest fires. Preliminary tests of the ice crystal production capability of the cloud seeding technique were conducted on five cumulus clouds near Yellowknife…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS