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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Bailey, Anderson
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Quintilio
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Furman
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney, Noste, Wilson
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This report presents a suggested list of metric units and conversion factors for quantities commonly used in forest fire research, and suitable also for practical use in operational work. It follows the approved standards of the International System of Units (SI).
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
An interactive computer program that can be used to analyse historical fire weather data and determine how frequently specific prescribed burn fire weather prescriptions have occured in the past is described. The Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada.…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dietz
Most western state laws pertaining to prescribed burning do not specifically deal with range rehabilitation. Prescribed burns require a burning permit issued by the State Forester, or his equivalent, prior to ignition during closed fire seasons. Air quality standards have been…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuquay
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haines, Main
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Feller, Trowbridge
The ecological effects of different treatments used to convert dense Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. stands into young P. contorta plantations are determined. The treatments used were felling the trees with a bulldozer and either broadcast burning the slash or bulldozing…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
This report examines air tankers from a systems point of view. The discussion begins by describing the fire control environment. Fire suppression is discussed from the resource management viewpoint. Emphasis then shifts to identifying the structure, components, resources, work…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans
In a year of catastrophic wildland fires across the country, Alaska once again had the dubious honor of being host to the nation's largest wildland fire.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
This paper deals with the application of fire management principles to satisfy land management needs. What is fire management? Briefly, fire management is the applicaiton of fire related knowledge to achieve specific land management objectives. In this case, the required fire…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman
A two-dimensional nonhydrostatic atmospheric model was used to simulate the circulation patterns (wind and vorticity) and turbulence energy fields associated with lines of extreme surface heating on simple two-dimensional hills. Heating-line locations and ambient crossflow…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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
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
Turner, Lawson
Weather elements affecting the calculation of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) are described. How to choose an adequate weather station site for fire danger rating observations, how to expose each weather instrument correctly, and the consequences of errors in…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Barney, Noste, Wilson
Rates of spread of wildfires were measured for different directions in various fuel types and various weather conditions in the fire seasons of 1969, 1970 and 1971. The rate of spread curves were compared with those predicted by the National Fire-Danger Rating System. The…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McBride
About 2.3 million acres were burned by wildfires in Alaska in 1977, an exceptionally bad year when the reversal of normal patterns of rainfall caused an unusually dry August. Major fires are described and the ways in which they were tackled are outlined. Resource Impact Advisory…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fox
This paper shows that there is a reasonable coincidence between the Canada lynx cycle and the occurrence of forest and brush fires. Fires set in motion plant succession, potentially leading to an increase in snowshoe hares (Grange, 1965). Snowfall is also correlated with the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS