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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Patto, Rosa
As the frequency and severity of wildfires escalates in many regions, the study of fire-resilient forestry practices becomes crucial. While forest owners may employ several silvicultural practices to mitigate fire damage, the analytical study of optimal forest management has…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Khan, Moinuddin
The disruptions to wildland fires, such as firebreaks, roads and rivers, can limit the spread of wildfire propagating through surface or crown fire. A large forest can be separated into different zones by carefully constructing firebreaks through modification of vegetation in…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Al Abri, Grogan
The United States has experienced an even longer and more intense wildfire season than normal in recent years, largely resulting from drought conditions and a buildup of flammable vegetation. The derived stochastic dynamic model in this study was utilized to evaluate the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ciri, Garimella, Bernardoni, Bennett, Leonardi
A methodology to quantify uncertainty in wildfire forecast using coupled fire-atmosphere computational models is presented. In these models, an atmospheric solver is coupled with a fire-spread module. In order to maintain a low computational cost, the atmospheric simulation is…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanan, Kennedy, Ren, Johnson, Smith
In recent decades, climate change has lengthened wildfire seasons globally and doubled the annual area burned. Thus, capturing fire dynamics is critical for projecting Earth system processes in warmer, drier, more fire prone future. Recent advances in fire regime modeling have…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Poujol, Prein, Newman
Convective storms produce heavier downpours and become more intense with climate change. Such changes could be even amplified in high-latitudes since the Arctic is warming faster than any other region in the world and subsequently moistening. However, little attention has been…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gharakhanlou, Hooshangi
Prediction of the way wildfires propagate in forests and rangelands is one of the critical issues in environmental protection and disaster management. This research aims to simulate wildfire propagation using a geographical information system (GIS)-based cellular automata (CA)…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nikolakis, Roberts
Culture influences how fire is perceived and managed in societies. An increasing risk of catastrophic wildfire has shifted political and academic attention on the use of Indigenous fire management (IFM) as an alternative to the common fire suppression paradigm. However, what is…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Akpoué, Barot, Raynaud, Gignoux
Young savanna trees can quickly grow back from belowground storage structures after topkill. This capacity is a tolerance trait that confers persistence at the plant individual level, enabling them to survive diverse disturbance regimes.
We simulated the growth of a single…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier, Goodrick
Abrupt changes in wind direction and speed caused by thunderstorm-generated gust fronts can, within a few seconds, transform slow-spreading low-intensity flanking fires into high-intensity head fires. Flame heights and spread rates can more than double. Fire mitigation…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Conkling
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ma, Hurtt, Tang, Lamb, Lister, Chini, Dubayah, Armston, Campbell, Duncanson, Healey, O'Neil-Dunne, Ott, Poulter, Shen
Forest carbon is a large and uncertain component of the global carbon cycle. An important source of complexity is the spatial heterogeneity of vegetation vertical structure and extent, which results from variations in climate, soils, and disturbances and influences both…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O, Hou, Orth
Wildfires can destroy property and vegetation, thereby threatening people’s livelihoods and food security. Soil moisture and biomass are important determinants of wildfire hazard. Corresponding novel satellite-based observations therefore present an opportunity to better…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vitolo, Di Giuseppe, Barnard, SanMiguel-Ayanz, Libertà, Krzeminski
Forest fires are an integral part of the natural Earth system dynamics, however they are becoming more devastating and less predictable as anthropogenic climate change exacerbates their impacts. In order to advance fire science, fire danger reanalysis products can be used as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Canelles, Aquilué, James, Lawler, Brotons
Context
Forest landscapes worldwide are shaped by abiotic drivers such as fire, windstorms, and drought, but also by biotic drivers like insect pests and pathogens. Although the effects of such drivers on forest dynamics have been studied extensively, knowledge of the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ke, Wang, Zou, Song, Liu
The fire plume height (smoke injection height) is an important parameter for calculating the transport and lifetime of smoke particles, which can significantly affect regional and global air quality and atmospheric radiation budget. To develop an observation‐based global fire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Massman
With the increasing frequency and severity of fire, there is an increasing desire to better manage fuels and minimize, as much as possible, the impacts of fire on soils and other natural resources. Piling and/or burning slash is one method of managing fuels and reducing the risk…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larsen, Hanigan, Reich, Qin, Cope, Morgan, Rappold
Background
Wildland fire (wildfire; bushfire) pollution contributes to poor air quality, a risk factor for premature death. The frequency and intensity of wildfires are expected to increase; improved tools for estimating exposure to fire smoke are vital. New-generation satellite…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Watts
The 193 million acres managed by the Forest Service play a significant role in the United States’ mitigation of climate change by serving the dual role of removing carbon from the atmosphere and providing long-term carbon storage. In acknowledgment of the importance of these…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Rogers, Veraverbeke, Johnstone, Baltzer, Barrett, Bourgeau-Chavez, Day, de Groot, Dieleman, Goetz, Hoy, Jenkins, Kane, Parisien, Potter, Schuur, Turetsky, Whitman, Mack
Carbon (C) emissions from wildfires are a key terrestrial–atmosphere interaction that influences global atmospheric composition and climate. Positive feedbacks between climate warming and boreal wildfires are predicted based on top-down controls of fire weather and climate, but…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pais, Carrasco, Elimbi Moudio, Shen
The destructive potential of wildfires has been exacerbated by climate change, causing their frequencies and intensities to continuously increase globally. Generating fire-resilient landscapes via efficient and calculated fuel-treatment plans is critical to protecting native…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suzuki, Manzello
Wind plays an important role in the built environment. Large outdoor fires in the built environment are no exception. Under strong wind, firebrands fly far, which leads to quick fire spread. In this study, the effect of structure to structure separation distance on firebrand…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wittenberg, Pereira
Fire is a natural element that has important effects on society, economy and environment. It is a critical element of many ecosystems, but when uncontrolled is the cause of the destruction of many socio-economic systems. These uncontrolled fires (wildfires) have temporal effects…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vigna, Besana, Comino, Pezzoli
Although increasing concern about climate change has raised awareness of the fundamental role of forest ecosystems, forests are threatened by human-induced impacts worldwide. Among them, wildfire risk is clearly the result of the interaction between human activities, ecological…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES