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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Urbanski
Smoke from wildland fires has a significant impact on public health and transportation safety and presents a serious complication for air regulators seeking to design effective and efficient emission control strategies to meet and maintain air quality standards. Wildland fires…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young
Projections of future fire activity, derived from statistical models, are a powerful tool for anticipating 21st-century fire regimes. In previous work, we developed a set of statistical models that captures fire-climate relationships at 30-yr timescales in Alaskan boreal forest…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strader
Heidi Strader shares what is known now about climate change and answers questions about its causes and effects.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder, Schleeweis, Moisen, Toney, Cohen, Freeman, Yang, Huang
In light of Earth's changing climate and growing human population, there is an urgent need to improve monitoring of natural and anthropogenic disturbances which effect forests' ability to sequester carbon and provide other ecosystem services. In this study, a two-step modeling…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Massman, Forthofer, Finney
The ability to rapidly estimate wind speed beneath a forest canopy or near the ground surface in any vegetation is critical to practical wildland fire behavior models. The common metric of this wind speed is the “mid-flame” wind speed, UMF. However, the existing approach for…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kautz, Meddens, Hall, Arneth
Aim: Biotic disturbances (BD, including insects, pathogens and wildlife herbivory) can alter forest structure and the capability of forests to deliver ecosystem services. Impact assessments, however, are limited by the lack of reliable and timely disturbance data at large…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rashidi, Medal, Gordon, Grala, Varner
In this research, we study the vulnerability of landscapes to wildfires based on the impact of the worst-case scenario ignition locations. Using this scenario, we model wildfires that cause the largest damage to a landscape over a given time horizon. The landscape is modeled as…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Stuefer, Cooper
This webinar, organized jointly by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, will focus on changing wildfires in Alaska and resulting smoke impacts to help our audience be prepared for the upcoming wildfire season. Randi Jandt…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Shuman, Foster, Shugart, Hoffman-Hall, Krylov, Loboda, Ershov, Sochilova
Change in the Russian boreal forest has the capacity to alter global carbon and climate dynamics. Fire disturbance is an integral determinant of the forest's composition and structure, and changing climate conditions are expected to create more frequent and severe fires. Using…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Villegas, Law, Stark, Minor, Breshears, Saleska, Swann, Garcia, Bella, Morton, Cobb, Barron-Gafford, Litvak, Kolb
Changes in large-scale vegetation structure triggered by processes such as deforestation, wildfires, and tree die-off alter surface structure, energy balance, and associated albedo-all critical for land surface models. Characterizing these properties usually requires long-term…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Al-Hamdan, Pierson, Nearing, Williams, Hernandez, Boll, Nouwakpo, Weltz, Spaeth
Soil erodibility is a key factor for estimating soil erosion using physically based models. In this study, a new parameterization approach for estimating erodibility was developed for the Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model (RHEM). The approach uses empirical equations that…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Conway, Johnstone
Mammalian herbivory on palatable trees affects tree growth, forest composition, and forest succession. Antecedent effects of herbivores can be identified through remnants of dead stems and altered tree morphology as well as changes in tree ring patterns and growth. Increases in…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hyde, Riley, Stoof
Wildfire increases the probability of debris flows posing hazardous conditions where values-at-risk exist downstream of burned areas. Conditions and processes leading to postfire debris flows usually follow a general sequence defined here as the postfire debris flow hazard…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Le Page
Vegetation fires are a complex aspect of terrestrial ecology to model because they depend on a wide range of climate, vegetation, and anthropogenic factors, and a major driver of ecosystem and carbon dynamics. This chapter explores the sensitivity of fire activity over temperate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Uncertainties are pervasive in natural hazards, and it is crucial to develop robust and meaningful approaches to characterize and communicate uncertainties to inform modeling efforts. In this monograph we provide a broad, cross-disciplinary overview of issues relating to…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riley, Thompson
Before fire models can be understood, evaluated, and effectively applied to support decision making, model-based uncertainties must be analyzed. In this chapter, we identify and classify sources of uncertainty using an established analytical framework, and summarize results…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin, Murray, Boehlert, Martinich, Rennels, Rupp
Climate change is altering wildfire activity across Alaska, with increased area burned projected for the future. Changes in wildfire are expected to affect the need for management and suppression resources; however, the potential economic implications of these needs have not…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pellegrini, Anderegg, Paine, Hoffmann, Kartzinel, Rabin, Sheil, Franco, Pacala
Fire regimes in savannas and forests are changing over much of the world. Anticipating the impact of these changes requires understanding how plants are adapted to fire. In this study, we test whether fire imposes a broad selective force on a key fire-tolerance trait, bark…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hann
This webinar focuses on the LANDFIRE Data Product Review website (landfire.nkn.uidaho.edu/) with a brief overview, demonstration of website processes, and discussion. The purpose of this site is for people to review LANDFIRE data products and submit site, zone, map rule specific…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Naughton
The proposed project will quantify the effects of hazardous fuels treatments on suppression costs of subsequent wildfires. Spatial econometric models of daily fire suppression costs will be estimated to determine if and to what spatial and temporal extent hazardous fuels…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Duffy
In 2016, the JFSP funded an Alaska proposal “Impacts of Climate and Management Options on Wildland Fire Fighting in Alaska: Implications for Operational Costs and Complexity under Future Scenarios." As a first stage in this work, investigators Dr. Paul Duffy and Dr. Courtney…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown, York, Christie, McCarthy
1) Increased incidence of landscape fire and pollinator declines with co-extinctions of dependent plant species are both globally significant. Fire can alter species distributions, but its effects on plant–pollinator interactions are poorly understood so its present and future…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ning, Sun
Forests absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis and also can release it back into the atmosphere through natural disturbances and management activities. In this study, the impact of different carbon policies on a landowner's management decisions is analyzed at the stand…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rossa
Most studies on the effect of fuel moisture content (FMC) on forest fire behaviour focus on dead fuel moisture; mechanisms of fire spread in live vegetation are considered to remain unexplained by current theory and modelling. In this work, an empirical model for quantifying the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nogueira, Ruffault, Chuvieco, Mouillot
Global burned area (BA) datasets from satellite Earth observations provide information for carbon emission and for Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) benchmarking. Fire patch identification from pixel-level information recently emerged as an additional way of providing…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES