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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Palm, Suitor, Joly, Herriges, Kelly, Hervieux, Russell, Bentzen, Larter, Hebblewhite
Climate change will lead to more frequent and more severe fires in some areas of boreal forests, affecting the distribution and availability of late-successional forest communities. These forest communities help protect globally significant carbon reserves beneath permafrost…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A Resource from the Western Regional Air Partnership's (WRAP) Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF)In December 2002 the FEJF issued a request for proposal for a bibliography and summary table on Emission Reduction Techniques for agricultural burning and wildland fire in support of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Speck, Speck
Wildfires are unplanned conflagrations perceived as a threat by humans. However, fires are essential for the survival of fire-adapted plants. On the one hand, wildfires cause major damage worldwide, burning large areas of forests and landscapes, threatening towns and villages,…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arrogante-Funes, Aguado, Chuvieco
Background: Fire is a natural disturbance that significantly impacts ecosystems and plays a crucial role in the distribution and preservation of biota worldwide. The effects of fires on bird diversity can be both positive, as they can create new habitats, and negative, as they…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Ahmadov, James, Pereira, Freitas, Grell
Background: The record number of wildfires in the United States in recent years has led to an increased focus on developing tools to accurately forecast their impacts at high spatial and temporal resolutions.
Aims: The Warn-on-Forecast System for Smoke (WoFS-Smoke) was developed…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Wang, Yang, Liu
Global climate change and extreme weather has a profound impact on wildfire, and it is of great importance to explore wildfire patterns in the context of global climate change for wildfire prevention and management. In this paper, a wildfire spatial prediction model based on…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vahedifard, Abdollahi, Leshchinsky, Stark, Sadegh, AghaKouchak
The frequency, severity, and spatial extent of destructive wildfires have increased in several regions globally over the past decades. While direct impacts from wildfires are devastating, the hazardous legacy of wildfires affects nearby communities long after the flames have…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sanghar, Teuber, Ravindran, Keller, Hernandez, Krauss, Linderholm, Echt, Tuermer-Lee, Juarez, Albertson, Khan, Haczku
Rationale: Wildfires are increasing in intensity, duration, and frequency with smoke plums affecting the lives of millions over large geographic areas. The immune modulatory effects of wildfire smoke are unclear. We previously showed that a major wildfire smoke component, ozone…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Volkova, Fernández
Fire is an important component of many forest ecosystems, yet climate change is now modifying fire regimes all over the world, driving a need to understand the impact of fires on the physical and biological processes. In 2022, Elsevier launched a Special Collection that spanned…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips, Rogers, Elder, Cooperdock, Moubarak, Randerson, Frumhoff
Wildfires in boreal forests release large quantities of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change. Here, we characterize the magnitude of recent and projected gross and net boreal North American wildfire carbon dioxide emissions, evaluate fire management as…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Xu, Jia
Wildfire is recognized as an increasing threat to the southern boreal forests and the permafrost beneath them, with less occurring over the cold continuous permafrost than before. However, we show that continuous permafrost was a major contribution to wildfire expansion in the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoseph, Hoy, Elder, Ludwig, Thompson, Miller
Rapid warming in Arctic tundra may lead to drier soils in summer and greater lightning ignition rates, likely culminating in enhanced wildfire risk. Increased wildfire frequency and intensity leads to greater conversion of permafrost carbon to greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Qayyum, Jamil, Alsboui, Hijjawi
Background: Understanding the intricacies of wildfire impact across diverse geographical landscapes necessitates a nuanced comprehension of fire dynamics and areas of vulnerability, particularly in regions prone to high wildfire risks. Machine learning (ML) stands as a…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuur, Abbott, Commane, Ernakovich, Euskirchen, Hugelius, Grosse, Jones, Koven, Leshyk, Lawrence, Loranty, Mauritz, Olefeldt, Natali, Rodenhizer, Salmon, Schädel, Strauss, Treat, Turetsky
Rapid Arctic environmental change affects the entire Earth system as thawing permafrost ecosystems release greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Understanding how much permafrost carbon will be released, over what time frame, and what the relative emissions of carbon dioxide and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heal
[First paragraph] Firefighters are embarking on an ambitious experiment to stamp out blazes deep in the Alaskan wilderness as a way to avert carbon emissions in what experts say is a seismic shift in thinking in modern wildfire management that has traditionally focused only on…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frumhoff, Phillips, Rogers
[Last paragraph of the opinion] We cannot stop global warming without dramatically reducing and ultimately eliminating fossil fuel emissions. But we also must keep boreal wildfire emissions in check. We ignore these wildfires and their accelerating climate impacts at our peril.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Macander, Nelson, Nawrocki, Frost, Orndahl, Palm, Wells, Goetz
Widespread changes in the distribution and abundance of plant functional types (PFTs) are occurring in Arctic and boreal ecosystems due to the intensification of disturbances, such as fire, and climate-driven vegetation dynamics, such as tundra shrub expansion. To understand how…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weiss, Marshall, Hayes, Nicolsky, Buma, Lucash
In interior Alaska, increasing wildfire activity associated with climate change is projected to continue, potentially altering regional forest composition. Conifers are emblematic of boreal forest; however, greater frequency and severity of wildfires has been found to favor…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Massey, Rogers, Berner, Cooperdock, Mack, Walker, Goetz
Deciduous tree cover is expected to increase in North American boreal forests with climate warming and wildfire. This shift in composition has the potential to generate biophysical cooling via increased land surface albedo. Here we use Landsat-derived maps of continuous tree…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Douglas, Brodylo, Jorgenson
The permafrost-fire-climate system has been a hotspot in research for decades under a warming climate scenario. Surface vegetation plays a dominant role in protecting permafrost from summer warmth, thus, any alteration of vegetation structure, particularly following severe…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shi, Levy, Remer, Mattoo, Arnold
Starting from point sources, wildfire smoke is important in the global aerosol system. The ability to characterize smoke near-source is key to modeling smoke dispersion and predicting air quality. With hemispheric views and 10-min refresh, imagers in Geostationary (GEO) orbit…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alizadeha, Adamowski, Entekhabi
Land surface-atmosphere coupling and soil moisture memory are shown to combine into a distinct temporal pattern for wildfire incidents across the western United States. We investigate the dynamic interplay of observed soil moisture, vegetation water content, and atmospheric…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crawford, Feldpausch, Marimon-Junior, de Oliveira, Belcher
Background: Charcoal increases in reflectance with increased intensity and/or duration of heating, and this has been proposed as a potential quantitative metric for fire severity. Because fuel properties also influence reflectance, relationships between heat exposure and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anthony, Applestein, Germino
Aims: Invasion by annual grasses (IAGs) and concomitant increases in wildfire are impacting many drylands globally, and an understanding of factors that contribute to or detract from community resistance to IAGs is needed to inform postfire restoration interventions. Prefire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Liu, Ke, Zhang, Ma, Fan
The vertical distribution of biomass burning aerosol (BBA) is important in regulating their impacts on weather and climate. The plume-rise process affects the injection height of BBA and interacts with the air parcel lifting and cloud processes. However, these processes are not…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES