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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Andrada, Russell, Arevalo-Ramirez, Kuang, Kantor, Yandun
This paper presents a comprehensive forest mapping system using a customized drone payload equipped with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), cameras, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors. The goal is to develop an efficient…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Liu, Ke, Zhang, Ma, Fan
The vertical distribution of biomass burning aerosol (BBA) is important in regulating their impacts on weather and climate. The plume-rise process affects the injection height of BBA and interacts with the air parcel lifting and cloud processes. However, these processes are not…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Dios
Wildfires are a natural phenomenon in many terrestrial ecosystems. However, human activity is changing fire regimes. Some argue that the frequency of extreme wildfire events, characterized by very high intensities and rates of spread, may be increasing (Duane et al., 2021).…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mankame, Shotorban
Spot fires created by wind–carrying firebrands are common in wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires. Firebrand deposition over cubic blocks in tandem and parallel arrangements representing simplified nearby small structures in WUI was studied. The flow turbulence was modeled by …
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wadhwani, Sutherland, Moinuddin, Huang
Background: Wildfire often shows complex dynamic behaviour due to the inherent nature of ambient conditions, vegetation and ignition patterns. Merging fire is one such dynamic behaviour that plays a critical role in the safety of structures and firefighters.
Aim & method:…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Ihme, Linn, Chen, Yang, Sha, Clements, McDanold, Anderson
Background: Wildfires are becoming more severe, so we need improved tools to predict them over a wide range of conditions and scales. One approach towards this goal entails the use of coupled fire/atmosphere modelling tools. Although significant progress has been made in…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Su, Xie, Xu, Liu, Li
Background: Correct evaluation of safe heat exposure distance (SHED) in wildland fire environments improves the safety and efficiency of firefighting operation. However, there is a lack of standard test method for the SHED, let alone the influencing factors of the SHED.
Aims:…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Granberg, Shen, Pearson, Verble
Background: Wildland firefighters have physically and psychologically demanding jobs that can result in social, economic and health-related stress. Previous studies have examined the physiological and physical effects of a career in wildland fire, but fewer studies have…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jambrina-Enríquez, Rodríguez de Vera, Davara, Herrera-Herrera, Mallol
Different types of plant tissues and resin can account for the wax lipids found in sedimentary contexts and archaeological samples. Consequently, there is increasing research to characterize the fatty acid carbon isotope ratios of different plant anatomical parts and their plant…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tampekis, Sakellariou, Palaiologou, Arabatzis, Kantartzis, Malesios, Stergiadou, Fafalis, Tsiaras
In recent years, a worldwide expansion in the frequency of large, uncontrolled, and catastrophic wildfire events has occurred, creating drastic social, economic, and environmental damage, especially in wildland–urban interface (WUI) zones. This damage includes losses of life,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carta, Zidda, Putzu, Loru, Anedda, Giusto
Nowadays, the challenges related to technological and environmental development are becoming increasingly complex. Among the environmentally significant issues, wildfires pose a serious threat to the global ecosystem. The damages inflicted upon forests are manifold, leading not…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edalati-nejad, Ghodrat, Sharples
Background: Wildfires can have detrimental impacts on the environment and urban structures when they spread from wildland areas.
Aims: In this work, a numerical study was performed to investigate the effect of downslope terrain on fire-induced flows in the presence of a building…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cui, Dossi, Rein
Background: Smouldering wildfires emit large amounts of carbon, toxic gases and particulate matter (PM), posing health and environmental hazards. It is challenging to conduct field measurements on wildfire emissions, and available instruments are limited by high cost and low…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ouyang, Wang, Du
There is a complex interaction between lightning-caused fire behavior and the flora and fauna of the forest, which involves the influence of a large number of ecological factors. However, more comprehensive simulation studies under multi-system interactions between lightning…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Battistoni, Cantone, Martino, Passamano, Romano, Sebillo, Vitiello
The increasing frequency and severity of forest fires necessitate early detection and rapid response to mitigate their impact. This project aims to design a cyber-physical system for early detection and rapid response to forest fires using advanced technologies. The system…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smail, Martin
A practitioner-oriented overview of LANDFIRE with a focus on fuels and how they react to modeling techniques. The subject area of discussion is the 2022 Cooks Peak fire located in northern New Mexico. This webinar is technical in its application and may offer insights for both…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Islam, Masud, Ahmed, Jafar, Ullah, Islam, Shatabda, Islam
Wildland fires, a natural calamity, pose a significant threat to both human lives and the environment while causing extensive economic damage. As the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with computer vision in disaster management continues to grow, there is a rising need for…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marjani, Ahmadi, Mahdianpari
Wildfires represent a significant natural disaster with the potential to inflict widespread damage on both ecosystems and property. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in leveraging deep learning (DL) techniques for predicting the spread of wildfires (WS). However…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanes
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) is the cornerstone of contemporary fire management in Canada. Although the System is conceptually robust there are known issues, primarily based on limitations that existed over the last 75 years of its development. One area…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ullah, Hussain, Khan, Ali, Ali, Choi
Background: Mobile ad hoc networks have piqued researchers’ interest in various applications, including forest fire detection. Because of the massive losses caused by this disaster, forest fires necessitate regular monitoring, good communication, and technology. As a result,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kim, Muminov
Wildfire poses a significant threat and is considered a severe natural disaster, which endangers forest resources, wildlife, and human livelihoods. In recent times, there has been an increase in the number of wildfire incidents, and both human involvement with nature and the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bandara, Rajeev, Gad
Wildfires are one of the most hazardous natural disasters in Australia in terms of fatalities, property damage and financial losses. Events of catastrophic wildfires are recorded across the world including in the United States and Canada. Failures along power distribution…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Champ, Barth, Brenkert-Smith, Falk, Gomez, Meldrum
Wildland-urban interface residents, who occupy the areas where wildlands meet and mix with human development, are both contributors to and recipients of the disastrous effects of wildland fires. They contribute through fire starts, flammable homes, unmitigated properties,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Research brief on wildfire interaction with invassive weeds
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boyd, Walker, Barnes, Celis, Goetz, Johnstone, Link, Melvin, Saperstein, Schuur, Mack
Wildfire activity is increasing in boreal forests as climate warms and dries, increasing risks to rural and urban communities. In black spruce forests of Interior Alaska, fuel reduction treatments are used to create a defensible space for fire suppression and slow fire spread.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES