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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lin, McCarty, Wang, Rogers, Morton, Collatz, Jin, Randerson
Fires in croplands, plantations, and rangelands contribute significantly to fire emissions in the United States, yet are often overshadowed by wildland fires in efforts to develop inventories or estimate responses to climate change. Here we quantified decadal trends, interannual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barbero, Abatzoglou, Steel, Larkin
Very large-fires (VLFs) have widespread impacts on ecosystems, air quality, fire suppression resources, and in many regions account for a majority of total area burned. Empirical generalized linear models of the largest fires (>5000 ha) across the contiguous United States (US…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stephens, Burrows, Buyantuyev, Gray, Keane, Kubian, Liu, Seijo, Shu, Tolhurst, van Wagtendonk
Mega-fires are often defined according to their size and intensity but are more accurately described by their socioeconomic impacts. Three factors -- climate change, fire exclusion, and antecedent disturbance, collectively referred to as the 'mega-fire triangle' -- likely…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shulski, You, Krieger, Baule, Zhang, Zhang, Horowitz
Meteorological observations from more than 250 stations in the Beaufort and Chukchi Sea coastal, interior, and offshore regions were gathered and quality-controlled for the period 1979 through 2009. These stations represent many different observing networks that operate in the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rideout, Ziesler, Kernohan
Assessing the value of fire planning alternatives is challenging because fire affects a wide array of ecosystem, market, and social values. Wildland fire management is increasingly used to address forest restoration while pragmatic approaches to assessing the value of fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Numerical prediction of size, mass, temperature and trajectory of cylindrical wind-driven firebrands
Mathematical models and numerical solution procedures for predicting the trajectory, oscillation, possible rotation, and mass and size time-evolution of cylindrical wind-driven firebrands are described and discussed. Two test problems and the results, used for validating the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kreye, Adams, Escobedo
Forests protect water quality by reducing soil erosion, sedimentation, and pollution; yet there is little information about the economic value of conserving forests for water quality protection in much of the United States. To assess this value, we conducted a meta-analysis of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
Eugene Odum's 1969 paper, The Strategy of Ecosystem Development, marks a watershed moment in approaches to the study of succession, ecosystem change caused by discrete disturbances. He argued that succession is unique from other kinds of change with regard to mechanisms (…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Asah
Researchers exploring the challenges of public intolerance for forest fires in the US predominantly focus on non-managers. Forest fire managers have unique perspectives on public perceptions and attitudes towards forest fires because managers frequently interact directly with…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman, Lasko, Kaufmann
Significant changes occurring in the wildland fire environment of the United States are generatinguncharacteristic shifts in the complexity, behavior, extent, and effects of wildfires. Increases in wildfire numbers, temporal and spatial scales, and ecological, social, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morvan
The subject of this article concerns the unsteady effects (fire intensity, wind) upon the propagation and, more generally, the behavior of surface fires in open fields. The study focused on two sources of unsteadiness: the first one resulting from the regime of propagation (wind…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alden
The benefits and drawbacks of overwintering weather stations continues to be a topic of interest in the fire management community. This presentation looks at specific weather stations and how overwintering effects the Drought Code.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Ziel
What factors may influence new fires burning into or being slowed by previous fire scars? How long can we consider fire scars a fuel barrier? More and more area in Alaska seems to be burning in close succession, or "repeat burns."
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
The Funny River Fire (AK-KKS-403140) was ignited by humans on May 19, 2014, and burned almost 200,000 acres on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, by early June. Most of the fire was within the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, but it threatened adjacent communities. Four recreational…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
A brief refresher of CFFDRS from the 3-day Summit, held October 28-30 in Fairbanks.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rodriguez
One of the factors that shapes the Alaskan Boreal forest is the frequency in which previously burned areas re-burn, also known as the fire return interval. The Alaskan fire regime itself is subject to various climate influences one of which is temperature. Using geographic…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Parisien, Flannigan, Parks, Anderson, Little, Taylor
Given that they can burn for weeks or months, wildfires in temperate and boreal forests may become immense (eg., 10^0-10^4 km2). However, during the period within which a large fire is 'active', not all days experience weather that is conducive to fire spread; indeed most of the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee developed this 2 page guide with resources and recommendations for those new to the wildland fire decision-making process.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Branson
This poster reviews current assessment products on the AICC Predictive Service Web page (like forecasts, lightning, and imagery) and examines some other tools and sources of data that Alaska fire managers might be able to use to improve fire weather forecasts. Presented at 2014…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Littell
Presentation made at 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolken
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) has been under development by the Canadian Forest Service since 1968, and comprises two major subsystems: the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) and the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) Systems (Stocks et…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Ziel
This presentation analyzed factors that may influence fires burning or slowing in recent fires, including season, fuels, burn severity of first fire, topography, time since fire, weather, and random or factors line up.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Littell, McKenzie
Climate and fire are strongly linked, although the relationship between them is contingent on fuels and thus fire responses to climate variability and change vary considerably across ecosystems, fuels management, and land use. By comparing relationships between climate and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES