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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 126 - 134 of 134
Picotte, Peterson, Meier, Howard
Burn severity products created by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) project were used to analyse historical trends in burn severity. Using a severity metric calculated by modelling the cumulative distribution of differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hantson, Pueyo, Chuvieco
Wildland fires are one of the main alleged examples of Self-Organised Criticality (SOC), with simple SOC models resulting in the expectation of a power-law fire size frequency distribution. Here, we test whether fire size distributions systematically follow a power law and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Perrine
The Card Street Fire (AK-KKS-503292) was ignited by humans on June 15, 2015. The exact cause and location are still under investigation. The final perimeter shows a total burned area of approximately 8,876 acres. The fire started on private property, and 15-20 mph winds pushed…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen, Chapin, Naughton, Rupp, Verbyla
Characterizing how variation in forest landscape structure shapes patterns of natural disturbances and mediates interactions between multiple disturbances is critical for anticipating ecological consequences of climate change in high-latitude forest ecosystems. During the 1990s…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Werth, Potter, Alexander, Cruz, Clements, Finney, Forthofer, Goodrick, Hoffman, Jolly, McAllister, Ottmar, Parsons
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s definition of extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
El Houssami, Thomas, Lamorlette, Morvan, Chaos, Hadden, Simeoni
A method to accurately understand the processes controlling the burning behavior of porous wildland fuels is presented using numerical simulations and laboratory experiments. A multiphase approach has been implemented in OpenFOAM, which is based on the FireFOAM solver for large…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landry, Matthews
Non-deforestation fire - i.e., fire that is typically followed by the recovery of natural vegetation - is arguably the most influential disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems, thereby playing a major role in carbon exchanges and affecting many climatic processes. The radiative…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loranty, Lieberman-Cribbin, Berner, Natali, Goetz, Alexander, Kholodov
In arctic tundra and boreal forest ecosystems vegetation structural and functional influences on the surface energy balance can strongly influence permafrost soil temperatures. As such, vegetation changes will likely play an important role in permafrost soil carbon dynamics and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Climate Change Implications for Wildfire in Alaska presented by Randi Jandt. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided workshops during the…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES