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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Richter, Rein
Pyrolysis is a key process in all stages of wood burning from ignition to extinction. Understanding each stage is crucial to tackle wildfires and assess the fire safety of timber buildings. A model of appropriate complexity of wood pyrolysis and oxidation is missing, which…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Hugny
In the summer of 2015, hundreds of forest fires burned across the state of Alaska. Several uncontrolled wildfires near the town of Tanana on the Yukon River were responsible for the largest portion of the area burned statewide. In July 2017, field measurements were carried out…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schumann, Mockrin, Syphard, Whittaker, Price, Johnson-Gaither, Emrich, Butsic
Recent decades have witnessed an escalation in the social, economic, and ecological impacts of wildfires worldwide. Wildfire losses stem from the complex interplay of social and ecological forces at multiple scales, including global climate change, regional wildfire regimes…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Muñoz-Rojas, Pereira
Fire is a natural element of the landscape and thus, the environment would be different as we know it without its presence. Fire is accepted as a vital force in shaping biomes and, to some extent, has allowed us to persist through time and became 'humans.' Fire can be a…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferreira, Vega-Oliveros, Zhao, Cardoso, Macau
Fire activity has a huge impact on human lives. Different models have been proposed to predict fire activity, which can be classified into global and regional ones. Global fire models focus on longer timescale simulations and can be very complex. Regional fire models concentrate…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walpole, Wilson, McCaffrey
Evacuation is the preferred method in the U.S. for preserving public safety in wildfire. However, alternatives such as staying and defending are used both in North America and Australia. Dangerous delays in the decision to evacuate are also common. One contributor to the…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaur, Sood
Wildfires are exorbitantly cataclysmic disasters that lead to the destruction of forest cover, wildlife, land resources, human assets, reduced soil fertility and global warming. Every year wildfires wreck havoc across the globe. Therefore, there is a need of an efficient and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ascoli, Hacket-Pain, LaMontagne, Cardil, Conedera, Maringer, Motta, Pearse, Vacchiano
1.Synchronous pulses of seed masting and natural disturbance have positive feedbacks on the reproduction of masting species in disturbance‐prone ecosystems. We test the hypotheses that disturbances and proximate causes of masting are correlated, and that their large‐scale…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Solvik, Erb, Goetz, Johnstone, Mack, Randerson, Román, Schaaf, Turetsky, Veraverbeke, Walker, Wang, Massey, Rogers
Fire is a primary disturbance in boreal forests and generates both positive and negative climate forcings. The influence of fire on surface albedo is a predominantly negative forcing in boreal forests, and one of the strongest overall, due to increased snow exposure in the…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drury
Background: Fire managers tasked with assessing the hazard and risk of wildfire in Alaska, USA, tend to have more confidence in fire behavior prediction modeling systems developed in Canada than similar systems developed in the US. In 1992, Canadian fire behavior systems were…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frangieh, Accary, Morvan, Meradji, Bessonov
The 3D structure of a fire front propagating through a homogeneous porous solid-fuel layer was studied numerically at laboratory and field scales. At laboratory scale, wind-tunnel fires propagating through laser-cut cardboard fuel were numerically reproduced, while at field…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manzello, Suzuki, Gollner, Fernandez-Pello
Large outdoor fires are an increasing danger to the built environment. Wildfires that spread into communities, labeled as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires, are an example of large outdoor fires. Other examples of large outdoor fires are urban fires including those that may…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wu, Adetona, Song, Naeher, Adetona
Wildland firefighters are directly exposed to elevated levels of wildland fire (WF) smoke. Although studies demonstrate WF smoke exposure is associated with lung function changes, few studies that use invasive sample collection methods have been conducted to investigate…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kumari, Pandey
Global warming caused an increase of forest fire events worldwide causing widespread forest degradation. Geospatial techniques aid in analysing climatic parameters to examine their relationship with forest fire. The research analyses time series forest fire events during 2001-…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bamford, Crank, Malan
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Year: 1946
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The NWCG Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed Fire contains information on prescribed fire smoke management techniques, air quality regulations, smoke monitoring, modeling, communication, public perception of prescribed fire and smoke, climate change, practical meteorological…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES