Improved official equations are presented for the 1984 version of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System. The most recent mathematical refinements serve to further rationalize the Fine Fuel Moisture Code and render it more compatible with other...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Van Wagner, Pickett
Year: 1985
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
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...
Person: Van Wagner, Pickett
Year: 1975
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Results and analysis of an experimental burning study on the fire behavior in boreal mixedwood slash in the northern Ontario's Clay Belt Region are presented. Horizontal discontinuity in this fuel type makes fire spread difficult when the fire...
Person: McCrae
Year: 1985
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Some basic concepts from the general theory of systems are presented. Six characteristics common to all systems (components, structure, resources, process, control, and objectives)are disussed and related to a fire management context. Wildland fire...
Person: Simard
Year: 1977
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
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Person: Chandler
Year: 1977
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
The turbulent characteristics of 17 Canadian cumulus clouds have been documented using the measurements from a specially instrumented T-33 aircraft. Most of the 33 cloud penetrations were made through the tops of cumuli 1—4.5 km in depth. Turbulent...
Person: MacPherson, Isaac
Year: 1977
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text... 'Lightning continues to be the nation*s number one stormy weather killer. Annual lightning deaths probably exceed 200, although only about one half of these are reported in any single tabulation. Lightning injuries probably exceed...
Person: Mogil, Rush, Kutka
Year: 1977
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
Economic limitations prevent the mapping over large areas of forest fire fuel types using conventional forestry methods. The information contained in such maps would be a valuable tool for assisting in initial attack planning, presuppression planning...
Person: Kourtz
Year: 1977
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
This report describes a study of the quality of - and uncertainty associated with - spot fire-weather forecasts prepared by National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters. The study involved the formulation of experimental probabilistic spot forecasts at...
Person: Brown, Murphy
Year: 1985
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS
A cloud seeding technique is proposed which has the objective of stimulating rainfall from cumulus clouds drifting over forest fires. Preliminary tests of the ice crystal production capability of the cloud seeding technique were conducted on five...
Person: Isaac, Schemenauer, Crozier, Chisholm, MacPherson, Bobbitt, MacHattie
Year: 1977
Resource Group: Document
Source: TTRS