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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Arseneault, Dy, Gennaretti, Autin, Bégin
A denser global network of millennial tree ring chronologies is needed to verify whether the warming of the last century is anomalously rapid or of large amplitude in the context of the last millennium. The North American boreal forest in particular has been poorly represented…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ahrens
Based on data from the U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA's) National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) and the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA's) annual fire department experience survey, NFPA estimates that during 2007-2011, local fire departments responded to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gorte
Headwaters Economics produced this report to better understand and address why wildfires are becoming more severe and expensive. The report also describes how the protection of homes in the Wildland-Urban Interface has added to these costs and concludes with a brief discussion…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Plucinski, Pastor
Aircraft are often used to drop suppressants and retardants to assist wildfire containment. Drop effectiveness has rarely been measured due to the difficulties in collecting data from wildfires and running field experiments and the absence of definitions and measures. This paper…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cruz
Evaluation is a crucial component for model credibility and acceptance by researchers and resource managers. The nature and characteristics of free-burning wildland fires pose challenges to acquiring the kind of quality data necessary for adequate fire behavior model evaluation…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Alexander
The degree of accuracy in model predictions of rate of spread in wildland fires is dependent on the model's applicability to a given situation, the validity of the model's relationships, and the reliability of the model input data. On the basis of a compilation of 49 fire spread…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Adam, Akafuah, Finney, Forthofer, Saito
In this second part of a two part exploration of dynamic behavior observed in wildland fires, time scales differentiating convective and radiative heat transfer is further explored. Scaling laws for the two different types of heat transfer considered: Radiation-driven fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abatzoglou, Barbero, Nauslar
Santa Ana winds (SAW) are among the most notorious fire-weather conditions in the United States and are implicated in wildfire and wind hazards in Southern California. This study employs large-scale reanalysis data to diagnose SAW through synoptic-scale dynamic and thermodynamic…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pinno, Errington, Thompson
Jack pine is a fire adapted species considered to regenerate well after fires of all severities. The Richardson Fire was an extreme megafire event that burned 576,000 ha of jack pine dominated boreal forest in 2011 in northern Alberta, Canada. Initial scouting immediately after…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lantz, Marsh, Kokelj
Local observations, repeat photos, and broad-scale remote sensing suggest that tall shrubs are becoming an increasingly dominant component of Low Arctic ecosystems. This shift has the potential to alter the surface energy balance through changes to the surface albedo, snow…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis, Baxter, Rosi-Marshall, Pierce, Crosby
Climate change (CC) is projected to increase the frequency and severity of natural disturbances (wildfires, insect outbreaks, and debris flows) and shift distributions of terrestrial ecosystems on a global basis. Although such terrestrial changes may affect stream ecosystems,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blodau, Olefeldt, Turetsky
Production, transport, and degradation of terrestrial dissolved organic matter (DOM) influence carbon (C) and nutrient cycling in both soils and downstream aquatic ecosystems. Here, we assessed the impacts of wildfire on DOM production, composition, and reactivity (…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Middleton
Land managers are grappling with massive changes in vegetation structure, particularly in protected areas formerly subjected to fire and grazing. The objective of this review was to compare notes on the historical and current management of ecosystems around the world (especially…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hart, Luckai
1) Charcoal plays an important role in soil function and carbon storage in fire-prone ecosystems. Charcoal is present in most boreal forest soils as a result of naturally recurring wildfires, which convert 0·7-2% of biomass to charcoal. In boreal forests, charcoal represents 8-…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ganteaume, Camia, Jappiot, SanMiguel-Ayanz, Long-Fournel, Lampin
Knowledge of the causes of forest fires, and of the main driving factors of ignition, is an indispensable step towards effective fire prevention policies. This study analyses the factors driving forest fire ignition in the Mediterranean region including the most common human and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gordon, Gruver, Flint, Luloff
Despite a broad literature addressing the human dimensions of wildfire, current approaches often compartmentalize results according to disciplinary boundaries. Further, relatively few studies have focused on the public's evolving perceptions of wildfire as communities change…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
While North American ecosystems vary widely in their ecology and natural historical fire regimes, they are unified in benefitting from prescribed fire when judiciously applied with the goal of maintaining and restoring native ecosystem composition, structure, and function. On a…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viegas, Soares, Almeida
The problem of predicting the rate of spread of a linear fire front in a fuel bed composed of one live and one dead fuel component in no-slope and no-wind conditions is addressed. Two linear models based on the mass fraction of each fuel component are proposed to predict the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Goldstein, Taufen Wessells, Lejano, Butler
How can communities enhance social-ecological resilience within complex urban systems? Drawing on a new urbanist proposal in Orange County, California, it is suggested that planning that ignores diverse ways of knowing undermines the experience and shared meaning of those living…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
André, Goncalves, Vaz, Viegas
Laboratory fire tests were performed in still air, for variable inclinations (10°, 15°) and fuel bed dimensions (1.28 × 2.50–3.0 × 4.6 m2), with homogeneous fuel beds of pine needles and pine wood excelsior. The fire ignition was made at a point, along a closed line with no fuel…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stephens, Agee, Fulé, North, Romme, Swetnam, Turner
With projected climate change, we expect to face much more forest fire in the coming decades. Policy-makers are challenged not to categorize all fires as destructive to ecosystems simply because they have long flame lengths and kill most of the trees within the fire boundary.…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Laughlin
Large areas of federal lands in the western states are currently at high risk of severe wildfire and have many insect and disease problems, indicating a significant decline in forest health and resilience. Although research studies have not been done that would measure whether…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Just under half (44%) of U.S. voters say 'uncontrollable wildfires that destroy property and forests 'is a serious problem, facing the nation - with one-in-four calling it an 'extremely' or 'very' serious problem. This is the highest proportion to register this view since 2007.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chan
Military research center focuses on heat stress reduction in a proposed 'Wildland Firefighter Advanced Personal Protection System.'
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES