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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wallace
An extension of the simple ellipse model of a vegetation fire is presented. This facilitates numerical implementation, and can therefore incorporate irregular topographical features and temporal changes in burning conditions. The model has been encoded into an interactive PC…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mees, Strauss, Chase
We describe a mathematical model for the probability that a fireline succeeds in containing a fire. The probability increases as the fireline width increases, and also as the fire's flame length decreases. More interestingly, uncertainties in width and flame length affect the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson
G.M. Byram's energy criterion for forest and wildland fires consists of two equations: one for computing the rate of flow of kinetic energy in the atmosphere due to the wind field (Pw), and one for estimating the rate of conversion of thermal energy to kinetic energy in the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Summarizes much of the geologic, paleoecologic, and oceanographic evidence for global environmental and climactic changes during the last 18,000 years.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Dyrness, Foote
The soils and vegetation of 12 stages of forest succession on the floodplain of the Tanana River are described. Succession begins with the invasion of newly deposited alluvium by willows (Salix spp.) and develops through a willow-alder (Alnus tenuifolia Nutt.) stage to forest…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Serreze, Box, Barry, Walsh
Synoptic activity for the Arctic is examined for the period 1952-1989 using the National Meteorological Center sea level pressure data set. Winter cyclone activity is most common near Iceland, between Svalbard and Scandinavia, the Norwegian and Kara seas, Baffin Bay and the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beer
The results of a number of laboratory tests of wind-driven fires indicate the existence of a characteristic wind speed, U'. The form of the fire spread (V) as a function of mid-flame wind speed (U) differs above and below this characteristic speed. The scatter in field data is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson
Increasing expenditures for forest fire retardant and the development of more efficient delivery systems have emphasized the need for more knowledge on the transmission and retention characteristics of wildland fuels. In a series of tests, retardant was cascaded from an airplane…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Roussopoulos
Summary of fire intensity levels, flame length, and fire description and control actions.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Houze, Jr.
Cloud dynamics
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
Published data on two sets of experimental fires in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) forest were subjected to two forms of analysis. The first was a classification into surface fires and two kinds of crown fire, passive and active. In the second, the data were used to develop a…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Etling, Brown
Roll vortices may be loosely defined as quasi two-dimensional organized large eddies with their horizontal axis extending through the whole planetary boundary layer (PBL). Their indirect manifestation is most obvious in so-called cloud streets as can be seen in numerous…
Year: 1993
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
Stokes, McDonald, Kelley
ANNOTATION: High transport costs are a factor to consider in the use of forest residues for fuel. Costs can be reduced by increasing haul capacities, reducing high moisture contents, and improving trucking efficiency. The literature for transpirational drying and the economics…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Ferguson, Speers-Hayes
Unpublished final report to the USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Stage
This document details enhancements to the Parallel Processing Extension (PPE) to the Prognosis Model and documents corrections to the original 'User's Guide to the Parallel Processing Extension of the Prognosis Model' by Crookston and Stage (1991). The original guide contains…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Burns, Hall, Hanson
CONSUME is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of IBM-PC applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption on logged units based on weather data, the amount and fuel moisture of fuels, and a number of other…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson
The equations presented by G. M. Byram in 1959 for calculating energy flow rate in the wind field (P w ) and in the convection column (P f ) above a wildland fire are inconsistent because units for each rate are not those of an energy rate (or power) per unit area. New equations…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Regulations relating to the Clean Air Act requirement that Federal actions conform to the appropriate state, tribal, or federal implementation plan for attaining clean air.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
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
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
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