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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System is EPA’s premier modeling system for studying air pollution from global to local scales. For nearly a quarter century, EPA and states have used CMAQ—a powerful computational tool for translating fundamental atmospheric…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
CMAQ (see-mak), the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, is an active open-source development project of the US Environmental Protection Agencythat consists of a suite of programs for conducting air quality model simulations. CMAQ combines current knowledge in…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Suzuki, Manzello
Background: In wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires, particulates from the combustion of both natural vegetative fuels and engineered cellulosic fuels may have deleterious effects on the environment.
Aims: The research was conducted to investigate the morphology of the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Johnson, Myers, Hao, Baker, Palarea‐Albaladejo, Scharko, Bradley, Banach, Tonkyn
Background: Fire models use pyrolysis data from ground samples and environments that differ from wildland conditions. Two analytical methods successfully measured oxidative pyrolysis gases in wind tunnel and field fires: Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and gas…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gao, Huang, Yu, Xu, Yang, Gasevic, Ye, Guo, Li
The intensity and frequency of wildfires is increasing globally. The systematic review of the current evidence on long-term impacts of non-occupational wildfire exposure on human health has not been performed yet. To provide a systematic review and identify potential knowledge…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Warneke, Schwarz, Dibb, Kalashnikova, Frost, Al-Saadi, Brown, Brewer, Soja, Seidel, Washenfelder, Wiggins, Moore, Anderson, Jordan, Yacovitch, Herndon, Liu, Kuwayama, Jaffe, Johnston, Selimovic, Yokelson, Giles, Holben, Goloub, Popovici, Trainer, Kumar, Pierce, Fahey, Roberts, Gargulinski, Peterson, Ye, Thapa, Saide, Fite, Holmes, Wang, Coggon, Decker, Stockwell, Xu, Gkatzelis, Aikin, Lefer, Kaspari, Griffin, Zeng, Weber, Hastings, Chai, Wolfe, Hanisco, Liao, Campuzano-Jost, Guo, Jimenez, Crawford
The NOAA/NASA FIREX-AQ (Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality) experiment was a multi-agency, inter-disciplinary research effort to: (1) obtain detailed measurements of trace gas and aerosol emissions from wildfires and prescribed fires using aircraft…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hill, Jaeger, Smith
[From the Report Summary]
Background: The American Lung Association commissioned a report, written by PSE Healthy Energy, to answer the question: What does the current research say about the potential of prescribed fire to mitigate the increasing health and air quality risks…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The American Lung Association recently released a report titled "Can Prescribed Fire Mitigate Health Harm? A Review of Air Quality and Public Health Implications of Wildfire and Prescribed Fire." This report, commissioned by the American Lung Association and written by PSE…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Watts, Samburova, Moosmüller
Studies of the emissions from wildland fires are important for understanding the role of these events in the production, transport, and fate of emitted gases and particulate matter, and, consequently, their impact on atmospheric and ecological processes, and on human health and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maximoff, Mittal, Kaushik, Dhau
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a significant class of indoor air pollutants and are known for their adverse effects on health. A common strategy to reduce indoor VOC levels is to use sorbents, including activated carbons (ACs). The amount of activated carbon is critical…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shiraishi, Hirata, Hirano
Recently, the effect of large-scale fires on the global environment has attracted attention. Satellite observation data are used for global estimation of fire CO2 emissions, and available data sources are increasing. Although several CO2 emission inventories have already been…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nakata, Sano, Mukai, Kokhanovsky
The severity of wildfires is increasing globally. In this study, we used data from the Global Change Observation Mission-Climate/Second-generation Global Imager (GCOM-C/SGLI) to characterize the biomass burning aerosols that are generated by large-scale wildfires. We used data…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Hao, Baker, Princevac, Aminfar, Palarea‐Albaladejo, Ottmar, Hudak, Restaino, O'Brien
Composition of pyrolysis gases for wildland fuels is often determined using ground samples heated in non-oxidising environments. Results are applied to wildland fires where fuels change spatially and temporally, resulting in variable fire behaviour with variable heating. Though…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A statement by the Wildland Fire Leadership Council and their partners relating to the benefits of prescribed fire programs.
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yan, Zhu, Wang, Zhang, Luo, Qian, Jiang
This study investigates the impacts of African wildfire aerosols (primary organic carbon, black carbon and sulfate) on the Northern Hemispheric in January. We found that wildfire aerosols emitted from equatorial Africa result in two mid-to-high latitudes atmospheric Rossby wave…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yasunari, Nakamura, Kim, Choi, Lee, Tachibana, da Silva
Long-term assessment of severe wildfires and associated air pollution and related climate patterns in and around the Arctic is essential for assessing healthy human life status. To examine the relationships, we analyzed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ludwig, Natali, Mann, Schade, Holmes, Powell, Fiske, Commane
Climate change is causing an intensification in tundra fires across the Arctic, including the unprecedented 2015 fires in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta. The YK Delta contains extensive surface waters (∼33% cover) and significant quantities of organic carbon, much of which is…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhan, Hu, Zhou, Wang, Cai, Li
The occurrence of forest fires can lead to ecological damage, property loss, and human casualties. Current forest fire smoke detection methods do not sufficiently consider the characteristics of smoke with high transparency and no clear edges and have low detection accuracy,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sanderfoot, Bassing, Brusa, Emmet, Swift, Gardner
Climate change is intensifying global wildfire activity, and people and wildlife are increasingly exposed to hazardous air pollution during large-scale smoke events. Although wildfire smoke is considered a growing risk to public health, few studies have investigated the impacts…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGowan-Stinski, Charney, Kobziar, Wickman, Pitrolo
This is the 3rd panel discussion in Season 2 of the Fueling Collaboration series. Moderator Jack McGowan-Stinski (Lake States Fire Science Consortium) discusses all things smoke. What is it? What are the messages we should be communicating? What are the tools that can help us…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Healey, Yang
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station
Forest managers increasingly require statistically grounded estimates of forest carbon storage at the resolution of individual ownerships (a few thousand acres). Carbon…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stephens, Powers, Robertson, Spearing, Collier, Tich, Smith
When a wildfire strikes, it impacts entire communities. Yet it can be challenging to get communities to take the lead in becoming more prepared, and thus build lasting resilience. Guided by theoretical preparedness models, and using a case study design, this study examines the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] Under this strategy, the Forest Service will work with partners to engineer a paradigm shift by focusing fuels and forest health treatments more strategically and at the scale of the problem, using the best available science as the guide. At the Forest Service,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lukinbeal
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The NWS mission is to provide weather data, forecasts, warnings, and decision support services for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy. You may be asking yourself, how…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES