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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Setting up a green fuel moisture study

Olsen
From the text:'In November 1958 Fuel-Breaks workers began studies of the moisture content of green chaparral fuel. Since then study plots have been established and described, and instruments obtained and installed. In March of 1959 actual data collection began. This report tells…
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Some effects of slope on fire climate

Muraro
Variations of fuel moisture and related parameters attributable to degree of slope were studied by establishing fire weather stations on six land surfaces of the same elevation and aspect but varying from 0 to 62 per cent in steepness. Mean maximum daily temperature was found to…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Surface area of fine fuel components as a function of weight

Muraro
The frequency and weight distributions of branch litter under lodgepole pine stands and the relation between weight of fuel and surface area were investigated using 1/10,000-acre circular plots. A graph is presented from which total surface area in the square feet for certain…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The influence of insolation on fire hazard in coastal Douglas fir slash

Williams
A study of the effects of exposure (aspect and slope angle) and natural shade on the moisture content of Douglas fir logging slash indicates that, throughout most of the fire season, such effects are not great enough to be of practical significance in slash hazard rating. In the…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forced plumes

Morton
From the text ... 'This paper describes an investigation of the turbulent forced plumes generated by steady release of mass, momentum and buoyancy from a source situated in an extensive region of uniform or stably stratified fluid. The treatment, which is an extension of earlier…
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A non-destructive method of estimating moisture in wood

Etheridge
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A comparison of the xerometer with two other means of estimating fine fuel moisture content: final report

Bell, Van Wagner
In the open, the Xerometer readings bore almost no relation to the fuel moisture content, probably because the element is too well sheltered from the sun. Since it appears to be but marginally better than relative humidity as a measure of moisture content in the shade, we…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A fusion pyrometer to measure soil temperatures during wildland fires

Fenner, Bentley
[no description entered]
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mass fires and fire behavior

Countryman
Mass fires are being investigated through a series of large-scale test fires. Preliminary results indicate: (a) air flow patterns that create eddies can result in fire vortices when fires is present; (b) the lower part of the convection column consists of a series of small…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mechanisms of fire spread, research progress report No.1

Anderson
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cytophysiological and cytoecological investigations of heat resistance of plant cells toward the action of high and low temperature

Alexandrov
Thermostability of plant cells is due to the resistance of their proteins to denaturation, resistance to injurious metabolic changes, reparatory capacity, and capacity to harden. Hardiness includes the stability of several functions and increases the resistance to several…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effect of winter burning on some pests of alfalfa

Tippins
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Domestication of corn

Mangelsdorf, MacNeish, Galinat
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Evidence for existence of a common prehistoric race in both North and South America

Grobman, Mangelsdorf
[no description entered]
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Studies on the origin, evolution, and distribution of the Gramineae I. The tribe Andropogoneae

Hartley
[no description entered]
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The phytomer in relation to floral homologies in the American Maydeae

Galinat
[no description entered]
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tripsacum as a possible amphidiplaid of wild maize and manisuris

Galinat, Chaganti, Hager
[no description entered]
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Soils and forest growth on different aspects in the Tanana Watershed of interior Alaska

Krause, Rieger, Wilde
One of the frequently encountered characteristics of the boreal landscape is the extremely abrupt demarcation of soil-vegetation types. Sharp differentiation of plant communities may be caused by a number of conditions, such as severe fires, irregularities in drainage, invasion…
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Combustion of forest fuels

Byram
Chapter in the book titled, Forest fire: control and use. [This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mechanisms of fire spread research progress report no. 1

Anderson
An understanding of fire spread is important to the development of improved methods and systems for the control of free burning fires. Gaining knowledge about fire spread in forest fuels is complex because many variables are involved and because we still lack full understanding…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fuel moisture: a guide for evaluating severity of fire seasons

Barney
Field personnel in all forest fire protection agencies need some simple but reasonably accurate method for evaluating severity of the fire season as it progresses and of comparing severity of the current season with that of preceding fire seasons. This paper proposes use of…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mass fires and fire behavior

Countryman
The control of large fires is a problem of continuing concern to the Forest Service, other public agencies, and private owners of forest and rangeland. A few large fires each year account for all but a small share of the Nation's forest fire losses. In time of war, this problem…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Synoptic weather types associated with critical fire weather

Schroeder, Glovinsky, Hendricks, Hull, Jacobson, Krueger, Mallory, Oertel, Reese, Sergius, Syverson
Mass fires are likely to spread rapidly and burn intensely when strong winds are combined with low humidities and high temperatures, particularly after a rainless period. To identify synoptic weather types that create such periods of critical fire weather, the 48 contiguous…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The chronology and analysis of the Hughes Fire, 1962

Johnson
INTRODUCTION: Fire in the interior basin of Alaska is commonplace. Lightning- and man-caused fires have burned and reburned millions of acres. Despite their commonness and extensiveness, the specific history and characteristics of a fire as the relate to fules and weather have…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Wildfires in Alaska

Hess, Scott, Ledosquet
Description not entered.
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES