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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cardil, Monedero, Schag, de-Miguel, Tapia, Stoof, Silva, Mohan, Cardil, Ramírez
Wildfire is an integral component of many ecosystems, often necessary for habitat renewal and biodiversity. However, as recent events in the western U.S. and elsewhere have shown, wildfires can also inflict severe damage and impacts on to communities, infrastructure, and the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Miller, Jones
Data on fire effects and vegetation recovery are important for assessing the impacts of increasing temperatures and lightning on tundra fire regimes and the implications of increased fire in the Arctic for wildlife and ecosystem processes. This report summarizes information…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scholten
This webinar is part of NASA's ABoVE (Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment) Northwest Territories focused webinar series.
Topic: Overwintering fires in boreal forests of North AmericaPresenter: Rebecca C. Scholten, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
This topic…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bastian, Fay, La Puma, Swaty
LANDFIRE has just released an update that adds three new years of disturbances across the U.S. to its vegetation and fuels data layers. LANDFIRE 2019 Limited is one step toward annual updates for the program, which is relied upon nationwide to guide land management and fire…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth, Breen, Hewitt, Mack
Over the last century in the circumpolar north, notable terrestrial ecosystem changes include shrub expansion and an intensifying wildfire regime. Shrub invasion into tundra may be further accelerated by wildfire disturbance, which creates opportunities for establishment where…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cowan, Standish, Miller, Enright, Fontaine
Ecological resilience is widely acknowledged as a vital attribute of successful ecosystem restoration, with potential for restoration practice to contribute to this goal. Hence, defining common metrics of resilience to naturally occurring disturbances is essential for…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jonko, Yedinak, Conley, Linn
Atmospheric forcing and interactions between the fire and atmosphere are primary drivers of wildland fire behavior. The atmosphere is known to be a chaotic system that, although deterministic, is very sensitive to small perturbations to initial conditions. We assume that as a…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Keeley
No single factor produces wildfires; rather, they occur when fire thresholds (ignitions, fuels, and drought) are crossed. Anomalous weather events may lower these thresholds and thereby enhance the likelihood and spread of wildfires. Climate change increases the frequency with…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frangieh, Accary, Rossi, Morvan, Meradji, Marcelli, Chatelon
The effectiveness of a fuelbreak, created in a homogeneous grassland on a flat terrain, was studied numerically. The analysis relies on 3D numerical simulations that were performed using a detailed physical-fire-model (FIRESTAR3D) based on a multiphase formulation. To avoid…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Liu, Huang
Smouldering wildfire is an important disturbance to peatlands worldwide; it contributes significantly to global carbon emissions and provides positive feedback to climate change. Herein, we explore the feasibility of firebreaks to control smouldering peat fires through…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yuan, Restuccia, Rein
As organic porous soil, peat is prone to self-heating ignition, a type of spontaneous initiation of fire that can take place at ambient temperatures without an external source. Despite the urgency to tackle peat fires, the understanding of the self-heating ignition of peat is…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark
WindNinja, a tool developed by RMRS scientists, delivers high-resolution wind predictions within seconds for emergency fire responders making on-the-ground decisions. The program computes spatially-varying wind fields to help predict winds at small scales in complex terrain.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
Greg Dillon of the USDA Forest Service's Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) gives an overview of the work FMI does in wildland fire.
Webinar hosted by National Weather Service IMET.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Badola, Panda, Roberts, Waigl, Bhatt, Smith, Jandt
Alaska has witnessed a significant increase in wildfire events in recent decades that have been linked to drier and warmer summers. Forest fuel maps play a vital role in wildfire management and risk assessment. Freely available multispectral datasets are widely used for land use…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masoudvaziri, Bardales, Keskin, Sarreshtehdari, Sun, Elhami-Khorasani
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is defined as a geographic area where human developments and flammable vegetation merge in a wildfire-prone environment. Losses due to wildfire have been rising in the past decade, attributed to changes in vegetation growth, fuel availability,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mekonnen, Zhu, Simmonds
Wildfire is globally important to climate change and is projected to increase in severity with it. Thus, improving our predictability and understanding of its spatial patterns and impacts on terrestrial vegetation dynamics are greatly needed, as well as our ability to quantify…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wyden, Fan, Wigmosta, Coleman, Zhu, Negron-Juarez, Romps, Riley, Wang, Judi
The National Laboratories showcase their wildfire mitigation capabilities and technologies in this Wildfire Mitigation Webinar Series. Whether it’s a fire created by utility equipment or an oncoming fire that is threatening a utility company’s equipment, the National…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Moore
Alaska is faced with a unique fire management problem that has been handled in an interagency way for more than 30 years. The evolution of fire management has led to a different approach in interagency cooperation; weather data management; fire behavior and fire danger…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Heath, Emery, Hicke, Littell, Lucier, Masek, Peterson, Pouyat, Potter, Robertson, Sperry
United States forestland is an important ecosystem type, land cover, land use, and economic resource that is facing several drivers of change including climatic. Because of its significance, forestland was identified through the National Climate Assessment (NCA) as a key sector…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pellegrini, Refsland, Averill, Terrer, Staver, Brockway, Caprio, Clatterbuck, Coetsee, Haywood, Hobbie, Hoffmann, Kush, Lewis, Moser, Overby, Patterson, Peay, Reich, Ryan, Sword Sayer, Sharenbroch, Schoennagel, Smith, Stephan, Swanston, Turner, Varner, Jackson
Global change has resulted in chronic shifts in fire regimes. Variability in the sensitivity of tree communities to multi-decadal changes in fire regimes is critical to anticipating shifts in ecosystem structure and function, yet remains poorly understood. Here, we address the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fujioka, Weise, Chen, Kim, Kafatos
The Rothermel fire spread model provides the scientific basis for the US National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and several other important fire management applications. This study proposes a new perspective of the model that partitions the reaction intensity function and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Portante, Qiu, Kuiper, Hyde, Gayle, Bynum, Teyber
The National Laboratories showcase their wildfire mitigation capabilities and technologies in this Wildfire Mitigation Webinar Series. Whether it’s a fire created by utility equipment or an oncoming fire that is threatening a utility company’s equipment, the National…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Qiu, Hansard, Kumar, Thakur, Judi, Corbiani, Armijo, Myers
The National Laboratories showcase their wildfire mitigation capabilities and technologies in this Wildfire Mitigation Webinar Series. Whether it’s a fire created by utility equipment or an oncoming fire that is threatening a utility company’s equipment, the National…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Wang, Feng
Recent wildfires in the western United States have led to substantial economic losses and social stresses. There is a great concern that the new climatic state may further increase the intensity, duration, and frequency of wildfires. To examine temporal and spatial features of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cronan
The idea of using sensors to remotely measure things is not new. Aerial photos taken from hot air balloons were first proposed as a tool for mapping streets in the 1850s. In 1941, a US Forest Service ranger developed a technique for mapping fuels with aerial photos. Recent…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES