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...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Mitchell, Gwynne, Ronchi, Kalogeropoulos, Rein
Created Year: 2023
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
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...
Person: Mastorakos, Gkantonas, Efstathiou, Giusti
Created Year: 2022
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are an essential part of a healthy ecosystem, yet the expansion of the wildland-urban interface, combined with climatic changes and other anthropogenic activities, have led to the rise of wildfire hazards in the past few decades. Managing...
Person: Elhami-Khorasani, Ebrahimian, Buja, Cutter, Kosović, Lareau, Meacham, Rowell, Taciroglu, Thompson, Watts
Created Year: 2022
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
[From the Introduction] In the October-December 2019 issue of WILDFIRE, we described a recently developed rule of thumb for estimating a wildfire’s forward spread rate when burning conditions are severe, namely when wind speeds are high and fuels are...
Person: Cruz, Alexander
Created Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Destructive wildfires are now a real threat in regions across the country and beyond what was once considered as the fire season, examples of which are the 2016 Gatlinburg Fire in the Southeast and the 2021 Marshall Fire in late December. Existing...
Person: Elhami-Khorasani
Created Year: 2022
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES
In 2019 we described the development of a rule of thumb for estimating a wildfire’s forward rate of spread in cases when burning conditions are severe (i.e., namely when wind speeds are high and fuels are critically dry) and the time available to...
Person: Alexander, Cruz
Created Year: 2021
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES
Technosyva is a company of 50 professionals based in San Diego and in Leon, Spain. Since 1997 we focused on developing technology and applications for the wildland fire community, with a strong partnership with research institutions worldwide, and...
Person: Ramírez
Created Year: 2021
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES
Large wildfires of increasing frequency and severity threaten local populations and natural resources while contributing carbon emissions into the earth-climate system. Although wildfires have been researched and modeled for decades, no verifiable...
Person: Gollner
Created Year: 2022
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES
This paper presents an investigation on the effect of fire intensity of a wind driven surface fire, similar to a large wildfire, on an idealized structure located downstream from the fire source. A numerical simulation was conducted using an open...
Person: Edalati-nejad, Ghodrat, Fanaee, Simeoni
Created Year: 2022
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marty Alexander (Wild Rose Fire Behavior) and Luc Bibeau (FireSmart Specialist with Yukon Wildland Fire Management, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory) discuss the 3-m tree crown spacing guideline for the prevention of crowning wildfires.
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Person: Bibeau, Alexander
Created Year: 2021
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES