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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McGranahan, Wonkka
Wildland fire science literacy is the capacity for wildland fire professionals to understand and communicate three aspects of wildland fire: (1) the fundamentals of fuels and fire behavior, (2) the concept of fire as an ecological regime, and (3) multiple human dimensions of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Magness, Morton
Managers need information about the vulnerability of historical plant communities, and their potential future conditions, to respond appropriately to landscape change driven by global climate change. We model the climate envelopes of plant communities on the Kenai Peninsula in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wehmas
Thesis defense by Maija Wehmas, MS Candidate in UAF School of Natural Resources Management and Extension, advised by David Verbyla, Teresa Hollingsworth, and Daniel Mann.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
Rick Stratton explains the use of exceedance probability (EP) curves and how the information can inform decision makers regarding tradeoffs or potential impacts of fire to resources identified on the landscape.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Recent large fires and reburns in tundra north of the Brooks Range in Alaska have raised interest in the North Slope fire regime and induced some speculation that that it may be changing. The author analysed agency fire records, lightning detection data, and physiography for the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
The idea for a book series began in conversations with Lincoln Bramwell, chief historian for the Forest Service. We agreed that the standard history Fire in America needed updating.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quarles
Buildings ignite during wildfires when exposed to: 1. Burning embers (also called firebrands), 2. Radiant heat, and/or 3. Direct flame.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strategy on fire management to reduce Impacts of wildfire through collaboration and partnership.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Haskell
Highlights events and publications from the JFSP fire science exchange network.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Kielland, Euskirchen, Brinkman, Ruess, Kellie
Fire severity is an important control over regeneration of deciduous species and can influence the overall quality of habitat for herbivores, such as moose (Alces alces (Linnaeus, 1758)), but the relationships between availability and duration of biomass production and moose…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Presentation slides: From 4th ABoVE Science Team Meeting, Jan 23-26, Seattle WA
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Aleman, Hennebelle, Vannière, Blarquez
[from the text] Paleofire research is the study of past fire regimes using a suite of proxies (frequency, area burned, severity, intensity, etc.). Charcoal preserved in sedimentary archives constitutes one of the most ubiquitous measures of past fire regimes along with fire-…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tedim, Leone, Amraoui, Bouillon, Coughlan, Delogu, Fernandes, Ferreira, McCaffrey, McGee, Parente, Paton, Pereira, Ribeiro, Viegas, Xanthopoulos
Every year worldwide some extraordinary wildfires occur, overwhelming suppression capabilities, causing substantial damages, and often resulting in fatalities. Given their increasing frequency, there is a debate about how to address these wildfires with significant social…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walding, Williams, McGarvie, Belcher
Most previous research has assessed the ability of the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) to portray fire activity at either single sites or on small spatial scales, despite it being a nation-wide system. This study seeks to examine the relationships between a set of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raposo, Viegas, Xie, Almeida, Figueiredo, Porto, Sharples
Junction fires, which involve the merging of two linear fire fronts intersecting at a small angle, are associated with very intense fire behaviour. The dynamic displacement of the intersection point of the two lines and the flow along the symmetry plane of the fire are analysed…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutz, Larson, Swanson
Large, spatially explicit forest plots have the potential to address currently understudied aspects of fire ecology and management, including the validation of physics-based fire behavior models and next-generation fire effects models. Pre-fire forest structures, fire-mediated…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rim, Om, Ren, Kim, Kim, Kang-Chol
The Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) includes a wildland fire-behavior module, WRF-Fire, which simulates wildland fire interactions with the atmosphere. Combining the WRF model with the coupled weather–wildland fire model allows simulations of wildland fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yang
A dimensional analysis was performed to correlate the fuel bed fire rate of spread data previously reported in the literature. Under wind condition, six pertinent dimensionless groups were identified, namely dimensionless fire spread rate, dimensionless fuel particle size, fuel…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
El Houssami, Lamorlette, Morvan, Hadden, Simeoni
An experimental and numerical study was carried out to assess the performance of the different submodels and parameters used to describe the burning dynamics of wildfires. A multiphase formulation was used and compared to static fires of dried pitch pine needles of different…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Matsypura, Prokopyev, Zahar
Wildfires are a common phenomenon on most continents. They have occurred for an estimated 60 million years and are part of a regular climatic cycle. Nevertheless, wildfires represent a real and continuing problem that can have a major impact on people, wildlife and the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
The purpose of this project is to actively distribute fire science research results through two currently scheduled international conferences. These conferences are currently being coordinated by the International Association of Wildland Fire. It is anticipated that between 40-…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rios, Jahn, Pastor, Valero, Planas
Local wind fields that account for topographic interaction are a key element for any wildfire spread simulator. Currently available tools to generate near-surface winds with acceptable accuracy do not meet the tight time constraints required for data-driven applications. This…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Valero, Rios, Pastor, Planas
A variety of remote sensing techniques have been applied to forest fires. However, there is at present no system capable of monitoring an active fire precisely in a totally automated manner. Spaceborne sensors show too coarse spatio-temporal resolutions and all previous studies…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DellaSala, Ingalsbee, Hanson
Wildfires are a fact of life for westerners. They mark the beginning of the spring season and have been a keystone architect of biodiverse ecosystems for millennia. While wildfires are not eco-catastrophes, they are a health concern, evoke public fear-of-fire exploited by…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
This webinar will discuss various agricultural and forestry fires and their impacts on air quality, including smoke and other air emissions. Basic Smoke Management Practices (BSMPs) will be discussed as means to minimize air quality impacts from prescribed fires.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES