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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Countryman
Heat transfer is of paramount importance in wildland fire behavior and control. For a fire to start, heat must be transferred from a firebrand to the fuel. If the fire is to continue to burn and spread, heat must be transferred to the unburned fuel around the fire. And…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Three ingredients are essential for a wildland fire to start and to burn. First, there must be burnable fuel available. Then enough heat must be applied to the fuel to raise its temperature to the ignition point. And finally, there must be enough air to supply oxygen needed to…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
The fire behavior nomograms are excerpted from How to Predict the Spread and Intensity of Forest and Range Fuel, by Richard C. Rothermel, with the exception of the nomogram for fuel model #7 which was updated for this publication.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
[Excerpted from text] As interest in the prediction of actual fire spread rate increases, some way of accounting for the effect of slope desirable. The literature contains a few references on this question, and five of these are compared here.
[This publication is referenced in…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moussa, Trischka, Eskinazi
In the mixing of a jet with a cross-stream, it is found that in the near field, defined as the region of the flow from the jet exit to a distance of a few diameters downstream of this exit, a considerable amount of dynamical adjustment takes place. This near-field region…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines, Smith
During intense wildland fires a transient vortex pair sometimes occurs that may form with a near vertical axis but then bends over and becomes horizontal. Collapsing limbs of these vortex pairs threaten fire fighters. Therefore, this study simulated vortex collapse in a wind…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Laursen, Hobbs, Radke, Rasmussen
Emission factors for several trace gases were determined using airborne measurements from 13 biomass fires in North America. Emissions of methane (CH4), nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) were found to be positively correlated with the ratio of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Arno
Forest managers need basic information about the age structure of old- growth forests in which fire or other disturbances were important. Age structure information is necessary for determining appropriate strategies for perpetuating desired conditions. This paper describes a…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crosby
A set of value concepts and methods for appraising both values-at-risk and change in value resulting from wildfire are presented. Emphasis is placed on the effects of forest fires in terms of their affects on human and organization goal achievement. Fire effects that help…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stokes
ANNOTATION: Eight countries collaborated and shared technical information on the harvesting of small trees and forest residues in a three year program. Proceedings and reports from workshops and reviews are summarized in a review of activities and harvesting systems of the…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, King, Koerper
Current projections of the response of the biosphere to global climatic change indicate as much as 50% to 90% spatial displacement of extratropical biomes. The mechanism of spatial shift could be dominated by either 1) competitive displacement of northern biomes by southern…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoyt, Putman
This report concludes that a significant amount of timber (25,408 MBF) has been impacted by spruce bark beetles in the Lower Yukon District and that bark beetle population levels have subsided from epidemic levels of the late 1980's to more endemic levels. Bark beetle attacks…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolff
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baughman, Schmid
The characteristics of 23 cumulus congestus clouds were investigated in interior Alaska during the summer of 1973. Results show Alaskan lightning storms are generally smaller, more isolated, and produce less lightning than western Montana storms. Nine storms produced 123…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adams
The planar intersect technique involves counting or measuring diameters of woody pieces intersected by a vertical plane. It is based on the line intersect technique, which compares length of a given line and the amount of that line crossed by residue pieces. The sum of circular…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Cohen, Deeming
This publication contains instructions for manually calculating the indexes and components of the 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS). The procedures are explained with worked examples. Working sets of nomo grams for the 20 NFDRS fuel models are not included. However…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lotan
Fire management is a much talked about subject these days, but a lot more people are talking about it than practicing it. Although the fire management concept grew out of our traditional fire control activities, significant changes in practice have been excruciatingly slow in…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harvey, Grasham
Media satisfactory for the induction of callus proliferation from primary explants of Ribes nigrum, R. petiolare, and R. viscosissimum contained (g/l); calcium nitrate 0.5, magnesium sulfate 0.14, potassium phosphate (monobasic) 0.14, ammonium sulfate 0.025, ferric sulfate 0.014…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin, Coleman, Johnson
Backpack pumps or pickup pumpers and two 4-foot wands attached to a Y can be used to install firelines for prescribed burning in light fuels on rangeland. The technique is inexpensive, effective, and it does not permanently deface the landscape.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deeming, Burgan, Cohen
The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) updates the danger rating system developed in the early 1970's and published by Deeming and others in 1972. Numerous changes have been made to correct deficiencies and to incorporate new technology. The results of this work are…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catchpole, Alexander, Gill
Equations are presented for determining the proportion of the total perimeter and area burned for a simple elliptically shaped fire for any specified range of Byram's fireline intensities. The same principles apply to any characteristic that is dependent on fireline intensity.…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zasada
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
West
Livetrapping in black spruce (Picea mariana) taiga 60 km north of Fairbanks, Alaska, during 1972-1973 revealed that the dispersion pattern of the capture points for a population of northern red-backed voles varied greatly with season. The population was distributed without…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
Some theory and observations are presented on the factors governing the start and spread of crown fire in conifer forests. Crown fires are classified in three ways according to the degree of dependence of the crown phase of the fire on the ground surface phase. The crown fuel is…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Swanson, Barker
Populations of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) have fluctuated greatly since their introduction to Alaska in 1891. In the 1930s, reported numbers exceeded 600,000. Presently, 38,000 reindeer graze 6.2 million ha of rangeland and woodland in Western Alaska (from 66 degrees 54'N to…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES