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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Makowski
In order to formulate effective fire-mitigation policies, it is important to understand the spatial and temporal distribution of different types of wildfires and to be able to predict their occurrence taking the main influencing factors into account. The objective of this short…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Warneke, Schwarz, Dibb, Kalashnikova, Frost, Al-Saadi, Brown, Brewer, Soja, Seidel, Washenfelder, Wiggins, Moore, Anderson, Jordan, Yacovitch, Herndon, Liu, Kuwayama, Jaffe, Johnston, Selimovic, Yokelson, Giles, Holben, Goloub, Popovici, Trainer, Kumar, Pierce, Fahey, Roberts, Gargulinski, Peterson, Ye, Thapa, Saide, Fite, Holmes, Wang, Coggon, Decker, Stockwell, Xu, Gkatzelis, Aikin, Lefer, Kaspari, Griffin, Zeng, Weber, Hastings, Chai, Wolfe, Hanisco, Liao, Campuzano-Jost, Guo, Jimenez, Crawford
The NOAA/NASA FIREX-AQ (Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality) experiment was a multi-agency, inter-disciplinary research effort to: (1) obtain detailed measurements of trace gas and aerosol emissions from wildfires and prescribed fires using aircraft…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crowley, Stockdale, Johnston, Wulder, Liu, McCarty, Rieb, Cardille, White
Fire seasons have become increasingly variable and extreme due to changing climatological, ecological, and social conditions. Earth observation data are critical for monitoring fires and their impacts. Herein, we present a whole-system framework for identifying and synthesizing…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoo, Song
This paper proposes a new method for rapid prediction of wildfire spread, which employs computational wildfire simulations by FARSITE and assimilates the simulation results with actual observation data by means of an ensemble Kalman filter. To expedite data assimilation, the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Engström, Abbaszadeh, Keellings, Deb, Moradkhani
This study seeks to use machine learning to investigate the role of meteorological and climate variables on wildfire occurrence in the Arctic and the global tropical forests biomes. Using monthly fire counts observed by the MODIS satellites in combination with temperature and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neger, Rosas-Paz
Although humans have interacted with wildfires for millennia, a science-based approach to fire management has evolved in recent decades. This paper reviews the development of fire-management research, focusing on publications that use this term in their title, abstract, or…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Millington, Perkins, Smith
Human use and management of fire in landscapes have a long history and vary globally in purpose and impact. Existing local research on how people use and manage fire is fragmented across multiple disciplines and is diverse in methods of data collection and analysis. If progress…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Altamimi, Lagoa, Borges, McDill, Andriotis, Papakonstantinou
Forest management can be seen as a sequential decision-making problem to determine an optimal scheduling policy, e.g., harvest, thinning, or do-nothing, that can mitigate the risks of wildfire. Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) offer an efficient mathematical framework for…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander
[From the Introduction] In the October-December 2019 issue of WILDFIRE, we described a recently developed rule of thumb for estimating a wildfire’s forward spread rate when burning conditions are severe, namely when wind speeds are high and fuels are critically dry, and the time…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hedayati, Gorham
IBHS test chamber is a unique facility to study the effects of wind on fire. The test chamber area is equal to four basketball courts which allows researchers to perform large scale wind and fire tests. The test chamber is equipped with 105 fans that can generate gusty wind…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Elhami-Khorasani
Destructive wildfires are now a real threat in regions across the country and beyond what was once considered as the fire season, examples of which are the 2016 Gatlinburg Fire in the Southeast and the 2021 Marshall Fire in late December. Existing wildfire risk assessment…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
In 2019 we described the development of a rule of thumb for estimating a wildfire’s forward rate of spread in cases when burning conditions are severe (i.e., namely when wind speeds are high and fuels are critically dry) and the time available to prepare a more exacting…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Margolis, Guiterman
A recent collaboration by ~90 tree-ring and fire-scar scientists has resulted in the publication of the newly compiled North American Tree-Ring Fire-Scar Network (NAFSN), which contains 2,562 sites, > 37,000 fire-scarred trees, and covers large parts of North America. In this…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Loudermilk, O'Brien, Goodrick, Linn, Skowronski, Hiers
Background: The structure and function of fire-prone ecosystems are influenced by many interacting processes that develop over varying time scales. Fire creates both instantaneous and long-term changes in vegetation (defined as live, dead, and decomposing plant material) through…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nguyen, Wei
Selecting the optimal locations and timing for prescribed burning is challenging when considering uncertainties in weather, fire behavior, and future fire suppression. In this study, we present a sample average approximation (SAA) based multistage stochastic mixed integer…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maximoff, Mittal, Kaushik, Dhau
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a significant class of indoor air pollutants and are known for their adverse effects on health. A common strategy to reduce indoor VOC levels is to use sorbents, including activated carbons (ACs). The amount of activated carbon is critical…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burton, Cawson, Filkov, Penman
Fallen plant material such as leaves, needles and branches form litter beds which strongly influence fire ignition and spread. Traits of the dominant species influence litter flammability directly by determining how individual leaves burn and indirectly through the structure of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simon, Crowley, Franco
Wildfire is an integral part of many ecosystems, and wildland fires also have the potential for costly impacts to human health and safety, and damage to structures and natural resources. Public land managers use various strategies for managing landscape conditions that can…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Fernandes
The suggestion has been made within the wildland fire community that the rate of spread in the upper portion of the fire danger spectrum is largely independent of the physical fuel characteristics in certain forest ecosystem types. Our review and analysis of the relevant…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multistate regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based application designed to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective. IFTDSS provides access to data and…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Potter
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Some fires are big, but others are reach totally stunningly sizes, really “wow, that’s big.” What drives those fires to become so large, while other fires in seemingly similar conditions do not? I will present…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Yedinak
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wildland fires occupy the biosphere as both an ecological process essential for maintaining species diversity and a hazard to human lives, infrastructure and activities. Fire managers’ ability to anticipate fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ramírez
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Technosyva is a company of 50 professionals based in San Diego and in Leon, Spain. Since 1997 we focused on developing technology and applications for the wildland fire community, with a strong partnership with…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES