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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hajilou, Hu, Roche, Garg, Gollner
Over the past few years, numerous large-scale disasters have occurred due to wildfires at the wildland-urban interface (WUI). In these fires, spread via the transport of firebrands (burning embers) plays a significant role. Several models have been developed to describe the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Loboda, Puett
This preview extrapolates the future increase in burn area predicted by Chao Wu et al. in this issue of One Earth to consider the inevitable increase in fire-derived pollution and implication to human health. Although these global-scale predictions are concerning, understanding…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gilman
The 4th installment of the Mountain Studies Institute's Learning Series will feature Dr. Jessica Gilman and her research on the air quality impacts of wildfire smoke. Dr. Gilman will describe her work making detailed chemical measurements of biomass burning from the NOAA (…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
It’s no secret that warming temperatures are transforming landscapes in extreme northern regions. In Alaska, where wildfires have burned through many old-growth spruce forests in the past half decade, deciduous trees—such as aspen and birch—are starting to take over. But little…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mack, Walker, Johnstone, Alexander, Jean, Miller
In boreal forests, climate warming is shifting the wildfire disturbance regime to more frequent fires that burn more deeply into organic soils, releasing sequestered carbon to the atmosphere. To understand the destabilization of carbon storage, it is necessary to consider these…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGranahan
Rangeland scientists have long relied on thermocouples for measuring temperature, especially in agris—in the field, under the extreme conditions of wildland fire. But the electronics required to sense and record thermocouple data remain expensive to both purchase and protect…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nolde, Plank, Richter, Klein, Riedlinger
Wildfires significantly influence ecosystem patterns and processes on a global scale. In many cases, they pose a threat to human lives and property. Through greenhouse gas emissions, wildfires also directly contribute to climate change. The monitoring of such events and the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heyns, du Plessis, Curtin, Kosch, Hough
Tower-mounted camera-based wildfire detection systems provide an effective means of early forest fire detection. Historically, tower sites have been identified by foresters and locals with intimate knowledge of the terrain and without the aid of computational optimisation tools…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Valero, Jofre, Torres
Wildfire behavior predictions typically suffer from significant uncertainty. However, wildfire modeling uncertainties remain largely unquantified in the literature, mainly due to computing constraints. New multifidelity techniques provide a promising opportunity to overcome…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Dios, Nolan
Global wildfire activity has experienced a dramatic surge since 2017. From Chile to Indonesia, unprecedented fire behavior has occurred in many areas worldwide including, but not limited to, Portugal, Siberia, Australia, the Amazon and Orinoco basins, and the Western US. This…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wunder, Calkin, Charlton, Feder, Martinez de Arano, Moore, Rodríguez y Silva, Tacconi, Vega-García
Extreme wildfires are a major environmental and socioeconomic threat across many regions worldwide. The limits of fire suppression-centred strategies have become evident even in technologically well-equipped countries, due to high-cost and a legacy of landscape transformations,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Provides access to the data used in the GWIS applications. Data from the Current Situation Viewer are provided from the WMS (Web Map Service).
Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Boschetti, Roy
The datasets distributed from the new "County Profiles" portal are designed to be used for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change compliant fire activity reporting and emission inventories. From the new portal, users can access tables, maps and interactive charts that…
Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Reugebrink
Considering the intensity of the past year, from historic wildfires to social and economic tensions to a global pandemic, it is no wonder that many of us are experiencing burnout, stress, and anxiety. This includes first responders who regularly experience critical incidents and…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Baker
As our societies grow and change, the wildland fire community has to continue to evolve in its workforce and practices to better meet the expectations place upon it. Although the thought of and having diversity, equity, and inclusion conversations can be challenging, they…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hermoso, Regos, Morán-Ordoñez, Duane, Brotons
The world´s forests are one of the largest carbon sinks, making a substantial contribution to counterbalance the increase in atmospheric carbon from anthropogenic sources (Bastin et al., 2019). For this reason, there is broad support to forest conservation and restoration as an…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Effectiveness of post-fire soil erosion mitigation treatments: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Wildfires are known to be one of the main causes of soil erosion and land degradation, and their impacts on ecosystems and society are expected to increase in the future due to changes in climate and land use. It is therefore vital to mitigate the increased hydrological and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bognounou, Venier, Van Wilgenburg, Aubin, Candau, Arsenault, Hébert, Ibarzabal, Song, De Grandpré
Increased demand for timber, the reduction in the available timber resources, and more frequent and severe forest fires under a changing climate have increased the use of salvage logging in North American forests despite concerns regarding impacts on biodiversity and long-term…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sousa, Jelinski, Windmuller-Campione, Williams, GreyBear, Finnesand, Zachman
This study investigated differences in forest structure, organic layer thickness, soil organic carbon, and permafrost depth between late-successional (LS) and postfire (PF; 90–120 years since burn) plots under black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) growing on fine-textured…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, McCaffrey, Jones
Part of the Co-Management of Fire Risk Transmission (CoMFRT) webinar series
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lyapustin, Go, Korkin, Wang, Torres, Jethva, Marshak
A new algorithm is described for joint retrievals of the aerosol optical depth and spectral absorption from EPIC observations in the UV—Vis spectral range. The retrievals are illustrated on examples of the wildfire smoke events over North America, and dust storms over greater…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Josephson, Castaño, Koo, Linn
A physics/chemistry-based numerical model for predicting the emission of fine particles from wildfires is proposed. This model implements the fundamental mechanisms of soot formation in a combustion environment: soot nucleation, surface growth, agglomeration, oxidation, and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhou, Ding, Ji, Luo
Occurrence of wildfires is common in all continents with wildland vegetation. In general, complete observation of fire perimeter is carried out for a data assimilation framework. Moreover, the common practice assumes that observation data have a constant error. However, the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agovino, Cercielo, Ferraro, Garofalo
Wildfires constitute a serious threat for both the environment and human well-being. The US fire policy aims to tackle this problem, devoting a sizeable amount of resources and resorting extensively to fire suppression strategies. The theoretical literature has established a…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio, Stasiewicz, Edgeley
Formal regulation of private property and exploration of 'risk transmission' across ownerships are two popular means for addressing wildfire management at landscape scales. However, existing studies also indicate that a number of barriers exist for implementing formal…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES