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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Morimoto, Juday
Research Highlights: Interior Alaska boreal forest is still largely intact and forest harvest management, if applied appropriately across the forest landscape, can potentially mitigate the effects of climate warming, such as increasing wildfire and decreasing mature tree growth…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sae-Lim, Russell, Vachula, Holmes, Mann, Schade, Natali
Wildfire is an important disturbance to Arctic tundra ecosystems. In the coming decades, tundra fire frequency, intensity, and extent are projected to increase because of anthropogenic climate change. To more accurately predict the effects of climate change on tundra fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Warziniack, Sims, Haas
We develop a spatial-dynamic optimization model of landscape scale, jointly produced ecosystem services on a forest at-risk of catastrophic wildfire. We show optimal fuel management strategies vary over time in response to biomass growth dynamics, how biomass contributes to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daniau, Desprat, Aleman, Bremond, Davis, Fletcher, Marlon, Marquer, Montade, Morales-Molino, Naughton, Rius, Urrego
The Earth has experienced large changes in global and regional climates over the past one million years. Understanding processes and feedbacks that control those past environmental changes is of great interest for better understanding the nature, direction and magnitude of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Urban, Song, Santamaria, Fernandez-Pello
Ember/firebrand spotting is an important mechanism by which wildland fires can rapidly spread. This process occurs when firebrands from a fire upwind land on a fuel downwind. These firebrands may initiate a flaming fire directly or a smolder fire, which may later transition to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waigl, Prakash, Stuefer, Verbyla, Dennison
Infrared imaging spectrometers are used to map and characterize wildland fire based on their sensitivity to fire-emitted thermal radiation and ability to resolve spectral emission or absorption features. There is a general paucity of research on the use of space-borne imaging…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ueyama, Iwata, Nagano, Tahara, Iwama, Harazono
Fire is the major disturbance in North American boreal forests, and is thought to be the most important process that determines the carbon balance in North American boreal forests. This study conducted four years of tower flux measurements in a burned ecosystem from one to four…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ronchi, Gwynne, Rein, Intini, Wadhwani
Fire evacuations at wildland-urban interfaces (WUI) pose a serious challenge to the emergency services, and are a global issue affecting thousands of communities around the world. This paper presents a multi-physics framework for the simulation of evacuation in WUI wildfire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moody, Purchio, Palmer
Wildland firefighters working in remote environments with steep terrain, uneven ground, variable temperatures and fluctuating elevations cultivate injury risk. The purpose of this study was to understand types of injuries and illnesses wildland firefighters (WLFFs) sustain…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ruthford
An Alaskan Style Severe Thunderstorm. Presented at the 2006 Pacific Northwest Weather Workshop in Seattle, WA.
King County Creek Fire Case Study of a big Thunderstorm on July 6, 2005. An old powerpoint presentation looking at the unique evolution how a severe thunderstorms…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ruthford
The Dry Cold Front vs the Inversion: A Case Study in the Numerous Complications of Mixing out an Inversion. Central Complex Aug 21-24, 2004. Presentation for the 2005 IMET Workshop in Boise, ID.
This one is less a critical fire weather pattern case study and more about the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ruthford
June 9 & 10, 2006 Parks Highway Fire Case Study of a strong southerly downsloping Chinook winds near Nenana, AK
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pronto, Karns
A decade ago, the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) published its first collection of articles in Fire Management Today to establish a greater awareness of international fire management. With this issue, our intent remains the same. The preceding articles offer snapshots of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baghdikian
The purpose of this document is to outline the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) wildland fire priorities and coordinate the EPA Office of Research and Development’s (ORD’s) wildland-fire-related research across multiple National Research Programs (NRPs) to be…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Karns
My first visit to the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) was disorienting. As I walked through the entryway, I was hit with the familiar aroma of burnt vegetation. Nearby, well-used wildland turnouts hung above boxes of fusees. Radios capable of receiving fire dispatches…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Wildland Urban Interface Wildfire Mitigation Desk Reference Guide provides basic background information on relevant programs and terminology for those, whether community members or agency personnel, seeking to enhance their community's wildfire mitigation efforts. The four…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pundir, Raman
Image-based smoke detection could help in faster and robust detection and monitoring of wildfires. It is becoming the best alternate of sensor based detectors for early detection of wildfire. The limitations of sensor based detector is that, they need close vicinity to fire for…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reid, Considine, Watson, Telesca, Pfister, Jerrett
Wildfires have been increasing in frequency in the western United States (US) with the 2017 and 2018 fire seasons experiencing some of the worst wildfires in terms of suppression costs and air pollution that the western US has seen. Although growing evidence suggests respiratory…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coker, Murphy, Johannsen, Galvin, Ruby
Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate pre- and postseason measures of body composition, skeletal muscle, and blood parameters/liver lipid in wildland firefighters (WLFF) over the fire season. Methods: Alaskan WLFF (N = 27) crews were evaluated pre- and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rogers, Dempster, Hawkins, Johnston, Boxall, Rolfe, Kragt, Burton, Pannell
Prioritising investments to minimise or mitigate natural hazards such as wildfires and storms is of increasing importance to hazard managers. Prioritisation of this type can be strengthened by considering benefit and cost impacts. To evaluate benefits and costs, managers require…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belenguer-Plomer, Tanase, Fernandez-Carrillo, Chuvieco
This paper presents a burned area mapping algorithm based on change detection of Sentinel-1 backscatter data guided by thermal anomalies. The algorithm self-adapts to the local scattering conditions and it is robust to variations of input data availability. The algorithm applies…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES