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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Secular climate change in old-growth tree-line vegetation of northern Quebec

Payette, Filion, Gauthier, Boutin
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Late holocene deforestation and tree regeneration in the forest-tundra of Quebec

Payette, Gagnon
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

CITPUFF: a Gaussion puff model for estimating pollutant concentration in complex terrain

Ross, Fox, Dietrich, Childs, Marlatt
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire policies and programs for the National Park System

Butts
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tundra fire regimes in the Noatak River Watershed, Alaska: 1956-83

Racine, Dennis, Patterson
The location, cause, frequency, size, rotation times, and seasonal timing of tundra fires in the Noatak River watershed of northwestern Alaska were determined from Bureau of Land Management fire records for 1956-83 and satellite (LANDSAT) 1:1 000 000 scale, black and white, band…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation development following fire in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests of south-eastern Labrador, Canada

Foster
(1) The pattern of post-fire vegetation development in Picea mariana (black spruce)-Pleurozium forests in south-eastern Labrador, Canada, is evaluated using palaeoecological methods and vegetation analysis of extant stands.(2) Macrofossil analysis of mor humus profiles in mature…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A decade with the Forestry Weather Interpretation System (FWIS)

Paul, Pierovich
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Nuclear winter: will the forests burn

Reifsnyder, Berry
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The sensitivity of the Palmer Drought Severity Index and Palmer's Z-index to their calibration coefficients including potential evapotranspiration

Karl
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Palmer Drought Index and its availability as an indicator of forest fire watch areas

Heddinghaus
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Drought and synoptic fire climatology of the boreal forest region of the Canada prairie provinces

Street
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forecasting fire danger and fire occurrence for wilderness fire management

Saveland
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Weather -- the drive train connecting the solar engine to forest ecosystems: Proceedings of the Conference on Fire and Forest Meteorology, No. 8

[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Equations and FORTRAN program for the Canadian forest fire weather index system

Van Wagner, Pickett
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 developments in the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning of the boreal mixedwood slash in the Ontario Clay Belt Region

McCrae
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 danger rating is low to moderate.…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Verification of experimental probabilistic spot fire-weather forecasts

Brown, Murphy
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 four NWS offices for…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The National fire-danger rating system: basic equations

Cohen, Deeming
Updating the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) was completed in 1977, and operational use of it was begun the next year. The System provides a guide to wildfire control and suppression by its indexes that measure the relative potential of initiating fires. Such fires do…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System as a predictor of total soil moisture content as estimated by the Thornwaite water balance

McAlpine, Eiber
Weather data from Upsala and Atikokan, Ontario, were used to determine the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System values and to calculate the soil moisture for two soil types using the Thornthwaite water balance. The Duff Moisture Code and the Drought Code were found to give…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Methodological considerations in the analysis of forest disturbance history

Lorimer
A number of nondestructive techniques for analyzing the timing, frequency, and magnitude of natural disturbances in forest stands are discussed in this paper. Intensive age determination of trees is desirable for reconstructing forest disturbance history, but age distrubution…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Late-quaternary climatic and vegetational change in the lower Mackenzie Basin, Northwest Canada

Ritchie
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dendrochronological and palynological observations on Populus balsamifera in northern Alaska, USA

Edwards, Dunwiddie
Sexual and clonal reproduction is occurring in a stand of Populus balsamifera on the Alaskan North Slope. Both even-aged and gradually expanding clones were observed. Trees attain ages in excess of 230 yr, but are slender due to slow diametrical growth (1.4 to 2.5 mm yr-1). A…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

National Forest Landscape Management Volume 2, Chapter 6, Fire

Bacon, Dell
This publication entitled National Forest Landscape Management Volume 2, Chapter 6, Fire, is part of the National Forest Landscape Management series, issued in 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, and 1980 by the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. This chapter's purpose is to…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Late Holocene deforestation and tree regeneration in the forest-tundra of Quebec

Payette, Gagnon
Reconstructions of climate in the Holocene rely heavily on palaeoclimatic indicators such as altitudinal and latitudinal treeline movements inferred from direct (macrofossil) or indirect (pollen) evidence of sites distant from modern treelines. It is suggested here that long-…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Climatic response to large summertime injections of smoke into the atmosphere: changes in precipitation and the Hadley circulation

Ghan, MacCracken, Walton
An atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) has been initialized with a 150 Tg summertime injection of smoke from post-war fires over Europe, Asia and North America. The smoke is subject to large-scale and convectice transport, dry deposition, coagulation and precipitation…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES