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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Misios, Chrysanthou, Tsigaridis, Amiridis
The most extreme manifestation of a fire–weather interaction is the formation of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) thunderstorms, triggered by super-heated updrafts, which can eject smoke at altitudes exceeding 20 Km. In this study, we investigated climate-related impacts from the most…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saydirasulovich, Mukhiddinov, Djuraev, Abdusalomov, Cho
Forest fires rank among the costliest and deadliest natural disasters globally. Identifying the smoke generated by forest fires is pivotal in facilitating the prompt suppression of developing fires. Nevertheless, succeeding techniques for detecting forest fire smoke encounter…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Papaioannou, Alamanos, Maris
Wildfires affect and change the burned sites’ condition, functionality, and ecosystem services. Altered hydrologic processes, such as runoff, increased streamflows, and sediment transport, are only a few examples resulting from burned soils, vegetation, and land cover. Such…
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
Potter, Cooperdock, Veraverbeke, Walker, Mack, Goetz, Baltzer, Bourgeau-Chavez, Burrell, Dieleman, French, Hantson, Hoy, Jenkins, Johnstone, Kane, Randerson, Turetsky, Whitman, Wiggins, Rogers
Fire is the dominant disturbance agent in Alaskan and Canadian boreal ecosystems and releases large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. Burned area and carbon emissions have been increasing with climate change, which have the potential to alter the carbon balance and shift…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fan, Miao, Zscheischler, Slater, Wu, Chai, AghaKouchak
Fire weather compounded by extremely hot and dry conditions often severely impacts society and ecosystems. To mitigate and better adapt to these compound fire weather (CFW) events, a better understanding of recent and future CFW trends is needed. Here we show that in the period…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lonergan
Wildfires have become more destructive over recent decades with climate change, so understanding how fire regimes will change with further climate change is critical for effective fire management practices. Paleofire records provide insight into how fire regimes have responded…
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
Calef, Schmidt, Varvak, Ziel
The boreal forest of northwestern North America covers an extensive area, contains vast amounts of carbon in its vegetation and soil, and is characterized by extensive wildfires. Catastrophic crown fires in these forests are fueled predominantly by only two evergreen needle-leaf…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bill, Dieleman, Baltzer, Degré‐Timmons, Mack, Day, Cumming, Walker, Turetsky
Conifer forests historically have been resilient to wildfires in part due to thick organic soil layers that regulate combustion and post-fire moisture and vegetation change. However, recent shifts in fire activity in western North America may be overwhelming these resilience…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mitchell, Martin
Vegetation fires - a term encompassing wildfires, biomass burning, forest fires and scrub fires, among others (Bowman et al., 2020) - have played a key role in governing Earth's systems for millions of years, dating to the evolution of vascular plants during the Silurian Period…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Choutri, Lagha, Meshoul, Batouche, Bouzidi, Charef
The past decade has witnessed a growing demand for drone-based fire detection systems, driven by escalating concerns about wildfires exacerbated by climate change, as corroborated by environmental studies. However, deploying existing drone-based fire detection systems in real-…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saxena, Dubey, Yaghoobian
Fuel ignition potential is one of the primary drivers influencing the extent of damage in wildland and wildland-urban interface fires and it is a decisive factor in planning prescribed fires. Determining the susceptibility of fuels, which vary spatially and temporally, to fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melton, De Fries, Smith, Mason
Climate change is leading to worsening disasters that disproportionately impact older adults. While research has begun to measure disparities, there is a gap in examining wildfire-specific disasters. To address this gap, this scoping review analyzed literature to explore the…
Year: 2023
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
Pan, Zhang
Wildfire is a growing concern worldwide with significant impacts on human lives and the environment. This study aimed to provide an overview of the current trends and research gaps in wildfire prediction by conducting a bibliometric analysis of papers in the Web of Science and…
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
Barnes, McMillan
This report summarizes the National Park Service Interior Region 11 (Alaska) Fire Ecology Program activities, monitoring and research results, and provides a list of outreach/publications completed in 2022. It features studies in Denali National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-St…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alkhatib, Sahwan, Alkhatieb, Schütt
Due to the harm forest fires cause to the environment and the economy as they occur more frequently around the world, early fire prediction and detection are necessary. To anticipate and discover forest fires, several technologies and techniques were put forth. To forecast the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Ni, Wei, Chen
Vegetation fire frequently occurs globally and produces two types of water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) including black carbon WSOC (BC-WSOC) and smoke-WSOC, they will eventually enter the surface environment (soil and water) and participate in the eco-environmental processes…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harris, Chapple, McLean, Melville
Globally, fire regimes are undergoing significant changes due to anthropogenic activities and climate change. In some regions, prescribed fire is being reintroduced to management, often after decades of suppression, and wildfires are increasing in severity and frequency. Local…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cheng, Luo, Yang, Li, Luo, Jia, Huang
Changes in soil carbon (C) pools driven by fire in forest ecosystems remain equivocal, especially at a global scale. In this study we analyzed data from 232 studies consisting of 1702 observations to investigate whether ecosystem type, climate zone, stand age, soil depth, slope…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yu, Portmann, Peng, Liu, Zhu, Asher, Bai, Lu, Bian, Mills, Schmidt, Rosenlof, Toon
Volcanic and wildfire events between 2014 and 2022 injected ∼3.2 Tg of sulfur dioxide and 0.8 Tg of smoke aerosols into the stratosphere. With injections at higher altitudes and lower latitudes, the simulated stratospheric lifetime of the 2014-2022 injections is about 50% longer…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES