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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Vegetation change has been observed across Arctic and boreal regions. Studies have often documented large-scale greening trends, but they have also identified areas of browning or shifts between greening and browning over varying spatial extents and time periods. At the same…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bartolome, Princevac, Weise, Mahalingam, Ghasemian, Venkatram, Vu, Aguilar
Smoke from human-induced fires such as prescribed fires can occasionally cause significant reduction in visibility on highways in the southern United States. Visibility reduction to less than three meters has been termed 'superfog' and environmental conditions that lead to its…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Twidwell, Wonkka, Wang, Grant, Allen, Fuhlendorf, Garmestani, Angeler, Taylor, Kreuter, Rogers
Mechanisms underlying the loss of ecological resilience and a shift to an alternate regime with lower ecosystem service provisioning continues to be a leading debate in ecology, particularly in cases where evidence points to human actions and decision-making as the primary…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bhuiyan, Moseley, Medal, Rashidi, Grala
Reducing the potential damage caused by a wildfire is a problem of significant importance to land and fire managers. Fuel reduction treatment is a well-known method of reducing the risk of fire occurrence and spread on landscapes. However, officials seeking fuel reduction…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lasslop, Coppola, Voulgarakis, Yue, Veraverbeke
Purpose of Review: Understanding of how fire affects the carbon cycle and climate is crucial for climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. As those are often based on Earth system model simulations, we identify recent progress and research needs that can improve the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Dell, Ford Hotmann, Fischer, Pierce
Seasonal-mean concentrations of particulate matter with diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) have been decreasing across the United States (US) for several decades, with large reductions in spring and summer in the eastern US. In contrast, summertime-mean PM2.5 in the western…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Presented By: Robert (Zeke) Ziel
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview The Science of Fire Hazard, Potential, and Risk, the topic of the workshop.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
Presented By: Scott Rupp
March 28th, 2019. Part of the Interagency Spring Fire Operations Meeting preseason update, an overview was given on the CASC climatology project.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kirsch
Presented By: Andrew Kirsch
March 27th, 2019. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave an overview on the tool STARFire and potential way of measuring wildfire risk via fragility.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
See how remote sensing is being used to track progress in conifer management. This video was presented by Jason Reinhardt – University of Minnesota-Minneapolis at the Harnessing Technology to Improve Conservation Effectiveness on Western Working Lands| Society for Rangeland…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Little, Drury, Molina, Lane
This compilation is intended to provide an illustrated overview of the current science of fuelbreaks in Alaska boreal forest, with citations and links to additional reference material for practitioners and the public. Research on fuelbreaks in the high northern latitudes is…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Buma, Batllori, Bisbing, Holz, Saunders, Bidlack, Creutzburg, DellaSala, Gregovich, Hennon, Krapek, Moritz, Zaret
The coastal temperate rainforests of South and North America are part of the most biomass dense forest biome on the planet. They are also subject to rapid climatic shifts and, subsequently, new disturbance processes - snow loss‐driven mortality and the emergence of fire in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yang, Liu, Chen, Gao, Tu
The smoldering combustion of natural organic layers such as peatlands leads to the largest and most persistent wildland fires on the Earth. The atmospheric oxygen concentration (mass fraction of oxygen: ) significantly influences the smoldering characteristics of peatlands. This…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international community. The topics discussed at the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Collin, Moireau, Trouve, Rochoux
Data assimilation is an emerging and powerful tool towards real-time flame front monitoring for wildland fire applications. The key idea is to regularly update the state and/or parameters of a fire spread model using observed firelines in order to improve a forecast on future…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dunn, O'Connor, Reilly, Calkin, Thompson
Researchers and managers increasingly recognize enterprise risk management as critical to addressing contemporary fire management challenges. Quantitative wildfire risk assessments contribute by parsing and mapping potentially contradictory positive and negative fire effects.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gao, Cheng
The damage caused by forest fire to forestry resources and economy is quite serious. As one of the most important characters of early forest fire, smoke is widely used as a signal of forest fire. In this paper, we propose a novel forest fire smoke detection method based on…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Folk, Kuligowski, Gwynne, Gales
With more frequent and destructive wildfires occurring in the growing wildland-urban interface (WUI), the ability to ensure the safe evacuation of potentially large groups of people is of increasing importance. This is a challenging task made only more difficult by the fact that…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sayad, Mousannif, Al Moatassime
Wildfires, whether natural or caused by humans, are considered among the most dangerous and devastating disasters around the world. Their complexity comes from the fact that they are hard to predict, hard to extinguish and cause enormous financial losses. To address this issue,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hess, Cullen, Cobian-Iñiguez, Ramthun, Lenske, Magness, Bolten, Foster, Spruce
Spruce beetle-induced (Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby)) mortality on the Kenai Peninsula has been hypothesized by local ecologists to result in the conversion of forest to grassland and subsequent increased fire danger. This hypothesis stands in contrast to empirical studies in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trucchia, Egorova, Pagnini, Rochoux
Many nonlinear phenomena, whose numerical simulation is not straightforward, depend on a set of parameters in a way which is not easy to predict beforehand. Wildland fires in presence of strong winds fall into this category, also due to the occurrence of firespotting. We present…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saha, Scanlon, D'Odorico
Aim: Fire is a globally important disturbance that affects nearly all vegetated biomes. Previous regional studies have suggested that the predictable seasonal pattern of a climatic time series, or seasonality, might aid in the prediction of average fire activity, but it is not…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brotons, Duane
Recent studies have explored the use of simple correlative models to project changes in future burnt areas (BAs) around the globe. However, estimates of future fire danger suffer from the critical shortcoming that feedbacks on climate change effects on vegetation are not…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Laurent, Mouillot, Moreno, Yue, Ciais
Vegetation fires are an important process in the Earth system. Fire intensity locally impacts fuel consumption, damage to the vegetation, chemical composition of fire emissions and also how fires spread across landscapes. It has been observed that fire occurrence, defined as the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Batllori, De Cáceres, Brotons, Ackerly, Moritz, Lloret
Understanding ecosystem responses to compound disturbance regimes and the influence of specific sequences of events in determining ecosystem shifts remains a challenge. We use a modelling framework for Mediterranean‐type ecosystems to assess the effects of fire–drought…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES