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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jonko, Yedinak, Conley, Linn
Atmospheric forcing and interactions between the fire and atmosphere are primary drivers of wildland fire behavior. The atmosphere is known to be a chaotic system that, although deterministic, is very sensitive to small perturbations to initial conditions. We assume that as a…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Pei, Liu, Wu, Li, Fang, Nie
A consensus about the fire-related soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) impacts that determine soil health and ecosystem services at the global scale remains elusive. Here, we conducted a global meta-analysis of 3173 observations with 1444, 1334, 228 and 167 observations for soil C…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Keeley
No single factor produces wildfires; rather, they occur when fire thresholds (ignitions, fuels, and drought) are crossed. Anomalous weather events may lower these thresholds and thereby enhance the likelihood and spread of wildfires. Climate change increases the frequency with…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The USDA, USFS, and USGS have put together a new Burn Severity Portal, which is a single access point for as much post-fire mapping and field plot data as possible. The portal includes data gathered through a wide range of federal programs including: Burned Area Emergency…
Year: 2021
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Frangieh, Accary, Rossi, Morvan, Meradji, Marcelli, Chatelon
The effectiveness of a fuelbreak, created in a homogeneous grassland on a flat terrain, was studied numerically. The analysis relies on 3D numerical simulations that were performed using a detailed physical-fire-model (FIRESTAR3D) based on a multiphase formulation. To avoid…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Liu, Huang
Smouldering wildfire is an important disturbance to peatlands worldwide; it contributes significantly to global carbon emissions and provides positive feedback to climate change. Herein, we explore the feasibility of firebreaks to control smouldering peat fires through…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yuan, Restuccia, Rein
As organic porous soil, peat is prone to self-heating ignition, a type of spontaneous initiation of fire that can take place at ambient temperatures without an external source. Despite the urgency to tackle peat fires, the understanding of the self-heating ignition of peat is…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark
WindNinja, a tool developed by RMRS scientists, delivers high-resolution wind predictions within seconds for emergency fire responders making on-the-ground decisions. The program computes spatially-varying wind fields to help predict winds at small scales in complex terrain.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
Greg Dillon of the USDA Forest Service's Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) gives an overview of the work FMI does in wildland fire.
Webinar hosted by National Weather Service IMET.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Panda, Bhatt, Meyer, Badola, Hrobak
In recent years, there have been rapid improvements in both remote sensing methods and satellite image availability that have the potential to massively improve burn severity assessments of the Alaskan boreal forest. In this study, we utilized recent pre- and post-fire Sentinel-…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Veraverbeke, Delcourt, Kukavskaya, Mack, Walker, Hessilt, Rogers, Scholten
Increases in arctic-boreal fires can switch these biomes from a long-term carbon (C) sink to a source of atmospheric C through direct fire emissions and longer-term emissions from soil respiration. We here review advances made by the arctic-boreal fire science community over the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quan, Yebra, Riaño, He, Lai, Liu
Fuel moisture content (FMC) of live vegetation is a crucial wildfire risk and spread rate driver. This study presents the first daily FMC product at a global scale and 500 m pixel resolution from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and radiative transfer…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Badola, Panda, Roberts, Waigl, Bhatt, Smith, Jandt
Alaska has witnessed a significant increase in wildfire events in recent decades that have been linked to drier and warmer summers. Forest fuel maps play a vital role in wildfire management and risk assessment. Freely available multispectral datasets are widely used for land use…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
dos Anjos, Solé, Benchimol
Fire is a powerful environmental disturbance with the ability to shape many biomes worldwide. However, global warming, land-use changes and other anthropogenic factors have strongly altered natural fire regimes worldwide. Despite the growing number of studies evaluating the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masoudvaziri, Bardales, Keskin, Sarreshtehdari, Sun, Elhami-Khorasani
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is defined as a geographic area where human developments and flammable vegetation merge in a wildfire-prone environment. Losses due to wildfire have been rising in the past decade, attributed to changes in vegetation growth, fuel availability,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiedinmyer
Fires, including wildfires, prescribed burns, agricultural burning, or residential biomass burning, emit substantial amounts of particles, reactive trace gases, and longer-lived species to the atmosphere on regional and global scales. These emissions and the products from…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Turetsky
Part of the California Fire Science Seminar Series
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mekonnen, Zhu, Simmonds
Wildfire is globally important to climate change and is projected to increase in severity with it. Thus, improving our predictability and understanding of its spatial patterns and impacts on terrestrial vegetation dynamics are greatly needed, as well as our ability to quantify…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett
Decision makers are desperately seeking solutions to the wildfire crisis in the West. Driven by several concurrently rising trends—including home development, climate change, accumulated fuels, and human ignitions—increasing risks require us to fundamentally rethink our…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
French, Billmire
The Wildland Fire Emissions Inventory System (WFEIS) came out of a NASA Applied Science program focused on creating maps of regional-scale wildland fire carbon emissions using the Consume emissions model and the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) for describing…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wyden, Fan, Wigmosta, Coleman, Zhu, Negron-Juarez, Romps, Riley, Wang, Judi
The National Laboratories showcase their wildfire mitigation capabilities and technologies in this Wildfire Mitigation Webinar Series. Whether it’s a fire created by utility equipment or an oncoming fire that is threatening a utility company’s equipment, the National…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Flores, Haire
For over 100 years, the US Forest Service (USFS) has developed initiatives to improve safety outcomes. Herein we discuss the engineered solutions used from 1910 through 1994, when the agency relied on physical science to address the hazards of wildland fire suppression. We then…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moura Batista dos Santos, Bento-Gonçalves, Vieira
Evaluating the impact of wildland fires on landscapes, a pursuit increasingly supported by remote sensing techniques, requires an understanding of wildfire dynamics. This research highlights the main insights from the literature related to “wildfires” and “remote sensing”…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Moore
Alaska is faced with a unique fire management problem that has been handled in an interagency way for more than 30 years. The evolution of fire management has led to a different approach in interagency cooperation; weather data management; fire behavior and fire danger…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amjad, Chojecki, Osornio-Vargas, Ospina
Background: Maternal wildfire exposure (e.g., smoke, stress) has been associated with poor birth outcomes with effects potentially mediated through air pollution and psychosocial stress. Despite the recent hike in the intensity and frequency of wildfires in some regions of the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES