Skip to main content

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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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

Displaying 1 - 25 of 39

The fires and fire policy

Schullery
From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The environmental effects of wildfire

McCleese
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Canadian forest fire danger rating system: an overview

Stocks, Lawson, Alexander, Van Wagner, McAlpine, Lynham, Dube
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lodgepole pine and white spruce crown fuel weights predicted from height and crown width

Johnson, Woodward, Titus
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Recent fire history of the northern Quebec biomes

Payette, Morneau, Sirois, Desponts
The recent fire history of northern Quebec biomes (54 000 km2), including the northern Boreal Forest, the southern and northern Forest—Tundra, and the Shrub Tundra, was documented by examining size and dates of 20th century wildfires using tree ring techniques. Results showed…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prediction of forest-floor moisture content on jack pine cutovers

Chrosciewicz
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire 1988--a year to remember

Hartigan
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Documenting wildfire behavior: the 1988 Brereton Lake fire, Manitoba

Hirsch
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Yellowstone fires

Romme, Despain
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modeling seasonal variation in daily people-caused forest fire occurrence

Martell, Bevilacqua, Stocks
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Equations and Fortran IV program for the 1976 metric version of the Forest Fire Weather Index

Van Wagner, Pickett
This report presents the equations for the new 1976 metric version of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index. In addition to the changes needed to accommodate metric weather data, several mathematical improvements are introduced as well. These eliminate certain anomalies in the…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A comparison of the Canadian and American forest fire danger rating systems

Van Wagner
This Report is a technical comparison of the American and Canadian systems of forest fire danger rating. It deals with the three fuel moisture indicators in each system, as well as the indexes of spread and energy release or buildup. The final comparison is between the American…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire spread in a black spruce stand

Kiil
'Fire Spread in a Black Spruce Stand.-The Canadian Forest Fire weather Index Tables consist of a family of relative fire danger indices that are used throughout Canada to assist in general fire control planning and operations. However, the fire manager must predict real fire…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Geographic information systems: providing information for wildland fire planning

Hamilton, Salazar, Palmer
Controlling wildfires within the wildland/urban interface has proven to be the most complex challenge facing wildland fire agencies. Although program improvements to increase the efficiency of interface suppression efforts have been suggested, the availability of information…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Relative humidity measurement for fire danger rating in Canada

Flannigan, Litwin
Wet and dry bulb temperatures from ventilated and non-ventilated screens can be used to obtain realistic values of relative humidity provided the appropriate psychometric coefficient is used. However, relative humidity from non-ventilated screens are subject to significant error…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Recording wind velocity, direction, and temperature in fires by logarithmic technique

Palmer, Auvil
Wind velocity, direction, and temperatures can vary drastically before, during, and after wild or prescribed fires. A data-recording system based on the logarithmic character of semiconductors has been developed for observing turbulent fluctuations from the mean in ratio form.…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Estimating moisture content of heavy forest fuels

Furman
The specification of moisture contents in forest fuels is an integral part of any workable fire-danger rating system. This paper presents a linear model for estimating the moisture content of the 100-hour timelag fuels. The variables in the model include yesterday's computed…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Acoustic echo sounding systems: their potential in forest fire control and research

Beran
Stability of the atmosphere at different levels is one important factor affecting the behavior of forest fires, but the measurement of stability and other atmospheric phenomena is complex and difficult. The acoustic echo sounder shows promise for measuring these parameters and…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Growth of buoyancy-induced longitudinal vortex pairs in a laminar flow

Smith
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Yellowstone wildfire of 1988 and what really happened to the birdlife

McEneaney
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning guidelines in the northern Great Plains

Higgins, Kruse, Piehl
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The long history of fire in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem

Romme, Despain
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An aid to streamlining fire-weather station networks

Furman
For reasons of economy it may be necessary to close one or several fire-weather stations in a protection area. Since it is logical to close those stations that will have the least impact on the ability of the fire manager to assess overall fire danger, it is desirable to know if…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Fire retardant ground distribution patterns from the CL-215 air tanker

George
Several fire retardants in current use were dropped from the Canadair CL-215 to determine drop height effects and for evaluation of the tank and gating system. This was accomplished through the quantification and analysis of the characteristics of the ground distribution…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Ignition probabilities of wildland fuels based on simulated lightning discharges

Latham, Schlieter
Ignition of wildland fine fuels by lightning was simulated with an electric arc discharge in the laboratory. The results showed that fuel parameters such as depth, moisture content, bulk density, and mineral content can be combined with the duration of the simulated continuing…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES