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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Year

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Heat of preignition of three woody fuels used in wildfire modeling research

Susott
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fuels for predicting fire behavior

Johnson
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cavity-nesting bird response to declining snags on a burned forest: a simulation model

Raphael
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System: technical documentation

[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Intensity as a third factor of disturbance regime and its effect on species diversity

Malanson
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

How to predict the spread and intensity of forest and range fires

Rothermel
This manual documents the procedures for estimating the rate of forward spread, intensity, flame length, and size of fires burning in forests and rangelands. It contains instructions for obtaining fuel and weather data, calculating fire behavior, and interpreting the results for…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The escaped fire situation: a decision analysis approach

Seaver, Roussopoulos, Freeling
A preliminary decision analysis model addressing the choice among alternative suppression strategies on escaped wildfires is presented. A case study application of the model, in the context of an Escaped Fire Situation Analysis on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, is…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulating the effect of forest fire on long-term annual timber supply

Van Wagner
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Potential spotting distance from wind-driven surface fires

Albini
Equations are presented by which to calculate the maximum firebrand particle lofting height from wind-driven line fires in surface fuels. Variables used are the fuel type, described as one of twelve stylized models used for fire behavior prediction, the fire intensity, and the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Height of stem-bark char underestimates flame length in prescribed burns

Cain
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting wind-driven wild land fire size and shape

Anderson
Documents the analysis of wind tunnel experiments on fire spread that produced a double ellipse concept of fire area growth. This provides ways of estimating size (area), shape (perimeter), and length to width ratio of a wind-driven wild land fire. The only inputs needed are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Azpipo: a simulator for growth and yield of ponderosa pine in Arizona

Larson, Minor
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Preattack planning, including the four stages of the Alaska fire season

Burrows
BLM Alaska Fire Service agency guide from 1984 detailing the process of preattack planning for wildfire. This historical guide details the process of collecting, evaluating, and recording fire intelligence data for successful decision making in the initial suppression of…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Integrating fire management analysis into land management planning

Mills
From the card:'The analysis of alternative fire management programs should be integrated into the land and resource management planning process, but a single fire management analysis model cannot meet all planning needs. Therefore, a set of simulation models that are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Decision analysis of prescribed burning

Radloff, Yancik
From the text:'This paper desribes two generalized decision models that partically characterize decision processes for the evaluation and execution of prescribed fires. Although the two models do not incorporate all the factors managers must consider in planning for prescribed…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation damage detection and assessment: the photographic approach

Murtha
The purpose of this paper is to discuss why and how the remote sensing photographic approach can be used in the detection and assessment of vegetation damage. The necessary attributes of the interpreter are mentioned, along with the need to clearly define and outline the…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wind adjustment factors for predicting fire behavior in three fuel types in Alaska

Norum
Factors for adjusting wind velocities from the 20-foot standard anemometer height down to an average wildfire midflame height (3.5 ft. for the fuels studied) are given for exposed, partially sheltered, and sheltered fuels in Alaska. The values are suitable for predicting…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A process for designing fire prescriptions

Brown
From the Final Remarks...'Designing fire prescriptions to meet today's demand for skill and professionalism requires an orderly planning process. At the start of this process, fire objectives must be derived from land managment objectives and specifically stated in terms of what…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire detection using the NOAA-series satellites

Matson, Schneider, Aldridge, Satchwell
This report discusses the potential usefulness of thermal infrared sensors onboard NOAA polar-orbiting satelites for detecting fires. In particular, the 3.8-micron channel is sensitive to high temperature sources such as fires. This paper will demonstrate how the 3.8-micron…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A photographic technique for use with stem analysis

Biging, Wensel
A method of photographing and digitizing radial growth on section rounds from destructively sampled trees for stem analysis was developed and compared in accuracy against hand measurements on those same rounds. Results indicated a high degree of correlation between photographic…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Canadian forest fire danger rating system: an update

Alexander
[no description entered]
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sampling and estimation of conifer mortality using large-scale color aerial photography

Hamilton
Methods are described for sampling and estimating mortality rates using strips of large-scale color aerial photography as the primary sampling unit. The methods have been designed to be used in situations where steep terrain and the lack of a radar altimeter make it very…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An evaluation of current prescribed fire reporting practices

Brandel, Omi
[no description entered]
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Laboratory facility for wind-aided firespread along a fuel matrix

Fleeter, Fendell, Cohen, Gat, White
Urban and wildland fires propagate via ignition of discrete fuel elements.Transfer of heat from burning to nonburning fuel is strongly influenced by wind because of its effects on combustion rates, on convective flow patterns, and on radiative transfer owing to its modification…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulation modeling for wildlife suppression

Smith
Large suppression programs have been organized in an effort to avoid the potentially large damages from wildfires. To help determine the efficient sizes and usage of these programs, simulation models have been developed. Recent widespread implementation of one such model --…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS