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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Pyne
Fire is special. Even among the ancient elements, fire is different because it alone is a reaction. It synthesizes its surroundings; it takes its character from its context. It varies by place, by culture, and by time. It has no single expression. There is no single way to…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Val Martin, Kahn, Tosca
We present an analysis of over 23,000 globally distributed wildfire smoke plume injection heights derived from Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) space-based, multi-angle stereo imaging. Both pixel-weighted and aerosol optical depth (AOD)-weighted results are given,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Little, Jandt, Drury, Molina, Lane
Wildland fire is the dominant disturbance agent of the boreal forest of Alaska. Currently, about 80% of the population of Alaska resides in communities potentially at risk from wildland fire. The wildland fire threat to these settlements is increasing because of increased…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hesseln
Purpose of Review: Prevention effectiveness relies on knowledge about the spatio-temporal likelihood of fire occurrence and whether fires are a result of natural processes or human influence. Such knowledge can be used to develop more effective tools and strategies to reduce…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

This planning framework and the accompanying planning systems audit tool are designed for use by planners working in or with communities located in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). The framework provides a menu of planning tools that communities can use to address the range…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ziel
There are at least 5 important factors that lead Alaska fire managers to continue their use of the Canadian CFFDRS system of fire danger and fire behavior tools for fire potential assessments in Alaska.  Fire behavior expert Robert "Zeke" Ziel gives a succinct review of them in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Pyne
Given the nature of the deliverables - books, with copyrights - it isn't possible to reproduce the full texts here. Instead, I am including the tables of contents and prologues for the four regions the grant has touched on - oak woodlands, Pacific Northwest, North east, and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Vermeire, Russell
Fire plays a central role in influencing ecosystem patterns and processes. However, documentation of fire seasonality and plant community response is limited in semiarid grasslands. We evaluated aboveground biomass, cover, and frequency response to summer, fall, and spring fires…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Anand, Shotorban, Mahalingam
The dispersion and deposition of cylindrical shaped firebrands of constant mass in a turbulent boundary layer was investigated by large eddy simulation of air flow, with firebrands individually tracked in a Lagrangian framework. The carried firebrands experienced both…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lieberman, Hahn, Landres
Landscape scale restoration is a common management intervention used around the world to combat ecological degradation. For wilderness managers in the United States, the decision to intervene is complicated by the Wilderness Act's legal mandate to preserve wilderness character…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wilkins, Pouliot, Foley, Appel, Pierce
Wildland fire emissions are routinely estimated in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Emissions Inventory, specifically for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and precursors to ozone (O3); however, there is a large amount of uncertainty in this sector. We employ a…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lasslop, Moeller, D'Onofrio, Hantson, Kloster
The interactions between climate, vegetation and fire can strongly influence the future trajectories of vegetation in Earth system models. We evaluate the relationships between tropical climate, vegetation and fire in the global vegetation model JSBACH, using a simple fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

O'Brien, Hiers, Varner, Hoffman, Dickinson, Michaletz, Loudermilk, Butler
Purpose of Review: The search for causal mechanisms in fire ecology has been slow to progress for two main reasons. First, many fire ecology investigations often occur after fires, with no detailed information on fire behavior. These fire effects are then used to infer both fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Meddens, Kolden, Lutz, Smith, Cansler, Abatzoglou, Meigs, Downing, Krawchuk
Fire refugia are landscape elements that remain unburned or minimally affected by fire, thereby supporting postfire ecosystem function, biodiversity, and resilience to disturbances. Although fire refugia have been studied across continents, scales, and affected taxa, they have…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Geiser, Stawski, Doty, Cooper, Nowack
Although wildfires are increasing globally, available information on how mammals respond behaviourally and physiologically to fires is scant. Despite a large number of ecological studies, often examining animal diversity and abundance before and after fires, the reasons as to…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Miller, Tang, Sluder, Finney, McAllister, Forthofer, Gollner
The following study examines the role of streaklike coherent structures in mixed convection via a horizontal heated boundary layer possessing an unheated starting length. The three-dimensionality of flows in this configuration, which is regularly encountered in practical…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Manzello, McAllister, Suzuki
Large outdoor fires present a risk to the built environment. Examples often in the international media reports are wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. WUI fires have destroyed communities throughout the world and are a…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

In 2017, the dominant greenhouse gases released into Earth’s atmosphere—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide— reached new record highs. The annual global average carbon dioxide concentration at Earth’s surface for 2017 was 405.0 ± 0.1 ppm, 2.2 ppm greater than for 2016 and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

York, Bhatt, Thoman, Ziel
Despite the low temperatures and short growing seasons of northern ecosystems, wildland fire is the dominant ecological disturbance in the boreal forest, the world’s largest terrestrial biome. Wildland fire also affects adjacent tundra regions. This sidebar, with a focus on the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Kelly, Brotons, Giljohann, McCarthy, Pausas, Smith
Conserving animals and plants in fire-prone landscapes requires evidence of how fires affect modified ecosystems. Despite progress on this front, fire ecology is restricted by a dissonance between two dominant paradigms: ‘fire mosaics’ and ‘functional types’. The fire mosaic…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Rossa, Fernandes
Predicting wind-driven rate of fire spread (RoS) has been the aim of many studies. Still, a field-tested model for general use, regardless of vegetation type, is currently lacking. We develop an empirical model for wind-aided RoS from laboratory fires (n = 216), assuming that it…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hoffman, Sieg, Linn, Mell, Parsons, Ziegler, Hiers
As scientists and managers seek to understand fire behavior in conditions that extend beyond the limits of our current empirical models and prior experiences, they will need new tools that foster a more mechanistic understanding of the processes driving fire dynamics and effects…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Manzello, Blanchi, Gollner, Gorham, McAllister, Pastor, Planas, Reszka, Suzuki
Large outdoor fires present a risk to the built environment. Wildfires that spread into communities, referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires, have destroyed communities throughout the world, and are an emerging problem in fire safety science. Other examples are large…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sol, Ruby, Gaskill, Dumke, Domitrovich
Introduction: The objective of this study was to document characteristics of hiking during wildland firefighter (WLFF) training and wildfire suppression. For the first time, the overall physical demands during wildland firefighting were evaluated in the field using global…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hawthorne, Mitchell
In recent years a number of studies have suggested that trends in wildfire can be seen at a regional, national and global scale, and can be explained by interactions with factors such as anthropogenic activity and climate. As future susceptibility to fire is expected to be high…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES