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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Marsha, Larkin
Fire location and burning area are essential parameters for estimating fire emissions. However, ground-based fire data (such as fire perimeters from incident reports) are often not available with the timeliness required for real-time forecasting. Fire detection products derived…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Orland, Kirschbaum, Stanley
Wildfire is a global phenomenon that has dramatic effects on erosion and flood potential. On steep slopes, burned areas are more likely to experience significant overland flow during heavy rainfall leading to post fire debris flows (PFDFs). Previous work establishes methods for…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mitchell, Gwynne, Ronchi, Kalogeropoulos, Rein
The hazards posed by a wildfire increase significantly when it approaches the wildland–urban interface. Evacuation of rural communities is frequently considered by local authorities and residents. In this context, evacuation triggers are locations that when reached by the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires in America are becoming larger, more frequent, and more destructive, driven by climate change and existing land management practices. Many of these fires occur at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), areas where development and wildland areas overlap and which are…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the spring of 2022, wildfires caused by escaped prescribed fires compelled Chief Randy Moore of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service to call for a 90-day pause in the agency’s prescribed fire program pending a program review.
A review team led…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mastorakos, Gkantonas, Efstathiou, Giusti
A stochastic model motivated by the Lagrangian transported probability density function method for turbulent reacting flows and the cellular automata approach for forest fires was put together to simulate propagation of fires in terrains with inhomogeneous composition. In…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Costes, Rodier, Masson, Lac, Rochoux
Coupled atmosphere-fire modeling is recognized as a relevant approach for the representation of the interaction between a wildland fire and local meteorology at landscape scales. The atmospheric model component used in the coupled system is based on several approximations, which…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bui, Timmermann, Lee, Maloney, Li, Kim, Shuman, Lee, Wieder
Midlatitude stationary waves are relatively persistent large-scale longitudinal variations in atmospheric circulation. Although recent case studies have suggested a close connection between stationary waves and extreme weather events, little is known about the global-scale…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ager
In 2022 the US Forest Service launched an ambitious 10-year strategy to address the escalating wildfire danger in the U.S. “Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Strategy for Protecting Communities and Improving Resilience in America’s Forests” includes a 10-year plan to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Egorova, Pagnini
Several cross-sectional studies recognize that conductive climatic conditions, including grave weather conditions favorable for ignition, larger burned areas, increasing fuel load and longer fire season, can lead to extreme events and enable fires to spread faster. Thus, the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liang, Liu, Wang, Wang
Climate change is exacerbating the fire activity in Alaska, which exposes lives and properties to great risk, especially residents living in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). Therefore, it is crucial to characterize the spatial distribution and temporal dynamics of WUI and assess…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Portmann, Liu, Rosenlof, Peng, Yu
The radiative forcing (RF) of volcanic sulfate is well quantified. However, the RF of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) smoke with absorbing carbonaceous aerosols has not been considered in climate assessment reports. With the Community Earth System Model (CESM), we studied two record-…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Di Giuseppe
In 2021, the availability of a physical model for lightning density prediction at ECMWF led the development of data driven models to identify episodes conducive of fires. The machine-learning classifiers worked remarkably well reaching an overall accuracy up to 78%. Still,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lever, Arcucci
The intensity of wildfires and wildfire season length is increasing due to climate change, causing a greater threat to the local population. Much of this population are increasingly adopting social media, and sites like Twitter are increasingly being used as a real-time human-…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Improving fire outcomes for communities requires local organizing and action. The Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) Pathways Tool helps communities identify a set of strategies which are tailored to their strengths and needs, and based on practices which have been successful in…
Year: 2022
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Zhang
In this article, we propose a mathematical model for insect outbreaks coupled with wildfire disturbances and an optimization model for finding suitable wildfire frequencies. We use a refined Holling II function as a model for the nonlinear response of fire frequency against…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schumaker, Watkins, Heinrichs
As fire frequency and severity grow throughout the world, scientists working across a range of disciplines will increasingly need to incorporate wildfire models into their research. However, fire simulators tend to be highly complex, time-consuming to learn, and difficult to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Roald
As wildfires in the United States are becoming more frequent and severe, mitigating the risk of wildfire ignitions from power line faults is an increasingly crucial effort. Long-term ignition prevention strategies, especially converting overhead lines to underground cables, are…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Al-Bashiti, Naser
Whether triggered by natural or human-made events, wildfires are considered one of the most traumatic events to our community and environment. Thus, properly predicting wildfires continues to be an active area of research. This work showcases a statistical overview of the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Niu, Nair, Zhang, Dixit, Murray-Tuite
Wildfires are becoming more frequent and increasing in intensity, which results in significant threats to human life and property. Road networks play an important role in emergency activities. It is reasonable that robust road connectivity will give evacuees and emergency…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, O'Connor, Gannon, Caggiano, Dunn, Schultz, Calkin, Pietruszka, Greiner, Stratton, Morisette
Background: The PODs (potential operational delineations) concept is an adaptive framework for cross-boundary and collaborative land and fire management planning. Use of PODs is increasingly recognized as a best practice, and PODs are seeing growing interest from federal, state…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Scholten, Hessilt, Liu, Veraverbeke
Overwintering fires are a historically rare phenomenon but may become more prevalent in the warming boreal region. Overwintering fires have been studied to a limited extent in boreal North America; however, their role and contribution to fire regimes in Siberia are still largely…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grillakis, Voulgarakis, Rovithakis, Seiradakis, Koutroulis, Field, Kasoar, Papadopoulos, Lazaridis
Wildfire is an integral part of the Earth system, but at the same time it can pose serious threats to human society and to certain types of terrestrial ecosystems. Meteorological conditions are a key driver of wildfire activity and extent, which led to the emergence of the use…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are among the worst natural and man-made disasters currently facing our nation. The damage a wildfire causes is multifaceted as it affects multiple areas of civilization and the safety and health of responding firefighters. Today, factors such as climate change and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Desai, Goodrick, Banerjee
High frequency (30 Hz) two-dimensional particle image velocimetry data recorded during a field experiment exploring fire spread from point ignition in hand-spread pine needles under calm ambient wind conditions are analysed in this study. In the initial stages, as the flame…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES