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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Sedano, Randerson
Climate-driven changes in the fire regime within boreal forest ecosystems are likely to have important effects on carbon cycling and species composition. In the context of improving fire management options and developing more realistic scenarios of future change, it is important…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogers, Veraverbeke, Azzari, Czimczik, Holden, Mouteva, Sedano, Treseder, Randerson
Carbon emissions from boreal forest fires are projected to increase with continued warming and constitute a potentially significant positive feedback to climate change. The highest consistent combustion levels are reported in interior Alaska and can be highly variable depending…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar
Fuel consumption specifies the amount of vegetative biomass consumed during wildland fire. It is a two-stage process of pyrolysis and combustion that occurs simultaneously and at different rates depending on the characteristics and condition of the fuel, weather, topography, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loehman, Reinhardt, Riley
Wildfires are an important component of the terrestrial carbon cycle and one of the main pathways for movement of carbon from the land surface to the atmosphere. Fires have received much attention in recent years as potential catalysts for shifting landscapes from carbon sinks…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liu, Goodrick, Heilman
Increasing wildfire activity in recent decades, partially related to extended droughts, along with concern over potential impacts of future climate change on fire activity has resulted in increased attention on fire-climate interactions. Findings from studies published in recent…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand
Emissions from wildland fire are both highly variable and highly uncertain over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Wildland fire emissions change considerably due to fluctuations from year to year with overall fire season severity, from season to season as different…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Liu, Urbanski, Kovalev, Mickler
This paper provides an overview and summary of the current state of knowledge regarding critical atmospheric processes that affect the distribution and concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols emitted from wildland fires or produced through subsequent chemical reactions…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hao, Larkin
Biomass burning is a major source of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon, and atmospheric pollutants that affects regional and global climate and air quality. The spatial and temporal extent of fires and the size of burned areas are critical parameters in the estimation of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ball
Vegetation fires release some fraction of the carbon in the biomass back to the atmosphere as CO2 and deposit some of the carbon onto the ground as charcoal or pyrogenic carbon. It is an open, but not unanswerable, question as to whether the formation of pyrogenic carbon can…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Urbanski
While the vast majority of carbon emitted by wildland fires is released as CO2, CO, and CH4, wildland fire smoke is nonetheless a rich and complex mixture of gases and aerosols. Primary emissions include significant amounts of CH4 and aerosol (organic aerosol and black carbon),…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maynard, Paré, Thiffault, Lafleur, Hogg, Kishchuk
There are concerns about the effect of increasing resource extraction and other human activities on the soils and vegetation of the boreal zone. The review covers published papers between 1974 and 2012 to assess the effects of natural disturbances and human activities on soils…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
2014 is an EPA National Emission Inventory (NEI) Year. The NEI is a national inventory of air pollutants, emitted from all sources. EPA compiles a NEI every three years from information submitted by State/Local/Tribal (SLT) agencies. Prescribed fire, wildfire and crop residue…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nagano, Iwata, Harazono
In this study, we focus on clarifying the contribution of wildfire on N dry deposition in a boreal forest of interior Alaska, by applying CASTNET data and multiple regression analysis against climate data. Here we set two working hypothesis: 1) Long-range transportation, rain…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lewis, Lindberg, Schmutz, Bertram
The slideshow for this project was presented at the 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Breen, Hollingsworth
Fires in the tundra can drastically alter vegetation and ecosystem characteristics. Drs. Hollingsworth and Breen (from the U.S. Forest Service and University of Alaska-Fairbanks, respectively) review the effects of climate on fire regime and wildfire in Alaska. They compare fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Page-Dumroese
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Bioenergy production from forest biomass offers a solution to reduce wildfire hazard fuel levels, decrease insect and disease outbreaks, and reduce the incidence of invasive species while producing a useful…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lewandrowski, Kim, Aillery
Economic studies have demonstrated that agricultural landowners could mitigate significant quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through afforestation. The associated carbon, however, must remain stored in soils or biomass for several decades to achieve substantial…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ueyama, Ichii, Iwata, Euskirchen, Zona, Rocha, Harazono, Iwama, Nakai, Oechel
Warming in northern high latitudes has changed the energy balance between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. This study evaluated changes in regional surface energy exchange in Alaska from 2000 to 2011 when substantial declines in spring snow cover due to spring warming…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Girardin, Guo, De Jong, Kinnard, Bernier, Raulier
The 20th century was a pivotal period at high northern latitudes as it marked the onset of rapid climatic warming brought on by major anthropogenic changes in global atmospheric composition. In parallel, Arctic sea ice extent has been decreasing over the period of available…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seedre, Taylor, Brassard, Chen, Jogiste
Corresponding with the increasing global resource demand, harvesting now affects millions of hectares of boreal forest each year, and yet our understanding of harvesting impacts on boreal carbon (C) dynamics relative to wildfire remains unclear. We provide a direct comparison of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oris, Asselin, Ali, Finsinger, Bergeron
Forest fires are an important disturbance in the boreal forest. They are influenced by climate, weather, topography, vegetation, surface deposits and human activities. In return, forest fires affect the climate through emission of gases and aerosols, and changes in surface…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Natali, Schuur, Webb, Hicks Pries, Crummer
A large pool of organic carbon (C) has been accumulating in the Arctic for thousands of years because cold and waterlogged conditions have protected soil organic material from microbial decomposition. As the climate warms, this vast and frozen C pool is at risk of being thawed,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES