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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Badhan, Shamsaei, Ebrahimian, Bebis, Lareau, Rowell
The rising severity and frequency of wildfires in recent years in the United States have raised numerous concerns regarding the improvement in wildfire emergency response management and decision-making systems, which require operational high temporal and spatial resolution…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McNamara, Mell
Fires resulting from antecedent fires, known as exposure fires, can manifest across diverse environments, including suburban, urban, and rural areas. Notably, exposure fires represented by structure-destroying fires within the wildland–urban interface (WUI) can extend into non-…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Ahmadov, James, Pereira, Freitas, Grell
Background: The record number of wildfires in the United States in recent years has led to an increased focus on developing tools to accurately forecast their impacts at high spatial and temporal resolutions.
Aims: The Warn-on-Forecast System for Smoke (WoFS-Smoke) was developed…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Purnomo, Christensen, Fernandez-Anez, Rein
Background: Smouldering peatland wildfires can last for months and create a positive feedback for climate change. These flameless, slow-burning fires spread horizontally and vertically and are strongly influenced by peat moisture content. Most models neglect the non-uniform…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell-Lochrie, Gallagher, Skowronski, Hadden
Background: Fifty years after its initial publication, Rothermel’s model continues to underpin many operational fire modelling tools. Past authors have, however, suggested a possible oversensitivity of the Rothermel model to fuel depth in certain fuel types.
Aims: To evaluate…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhou, Wang, Simeoni, Dong
Background: Fire whirls are often reported to occur in wildland fires and can induce serious difficulties in firefighting by abruptly modifying fire behaviour, exposing firefighters and even causing casualties.
Aims: The aim of this study was to examine the formation of fire…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Wang, Yang, Liu
Global climate change and extreme weather has a profound impact on wildfire, and it is of great importance to explore wildfire patterns in the context of global climate change for wildfire prevention and management. In this paper, a wildfire spatial prediction model based on…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sayedi
Background: The global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating serious consequences for human health, biodiversity, and climate. However, it remains difficult to project how long-term interactions among land use, management, and climate change will…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ahmed, Trouve, Forthofer, Finney
Our objective in the present study is to provide basic insights into the coupling between external-gas and solid biomass vegetation processes that control the dynamics of flame spread in wildland fire problems. We focus on a modeling approach that resolves processes occurring at…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Borrelli, Baldi, Berndt, Bertoncini, Bianchi, Bischof, Gallego, Carlà, Coppo, Corti, Corti, Corti, Cox, Dauderstädt, Dürr, Franci, González, Gonnelli, Guerri, Guzzi
Earth observation (EO) payload performances in the infrared spectral region from geostationary platforms are often limited by spatial resolution. In this paper, we investigate an instrumental concept leveraging a compressive sensing paradigm and super-resolution architecture to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sanghar, Teuber, Ravindran, Keller, Hernandez, Krauss, Linderholm, Echt, Tuermer-Lee, Juarez, Albertson, Khan, Haczku
Rationale: Wildfires are increasing in intensity, duration, and frequency with smoke plums affecting the lives of millions over large geographic areas. The immune modulatory effects of wildfire smoke are unclear. We previously showed that a major wildfire smoke component, ozone…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shinohara
Fire whirls cause strong wind damage in large outdoor fires such as wildland fires and urban fires. A model to predict the maximum tangential wind velocity in laboratory-scale fire whirls without flames in a crosswind is developed based on a generation mechanism and the…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips, Rogers, Elder, Cooperdock, Moubarak, Randerson, Frumhoff
Wildfires in boreal forests release large quantities of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change. Here, we characterize the magnitude of recent and projected gross and net boreal North American wildfire carbon dioxide emissions, evaluate fire management as…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rossa, Davim, Sil, Fernandes
Background: Fireline intensity (If) quantifies the power of the fireline and is used for various purposes. If and flame length (Lf) are relatable to each other using an empirical power function, which has been considered fuel-specific.
Aims: The aim of this study was to develop…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoseph, Hoy, Elder, Ludwig, Thompson, Miller
Rapid warming in Arctic tundra may lead to drier soils in summer and greater lightning ignition rates, likely culminating in enhanced wildfire risk. Increased wildfire frequency and intensity leads to greater conversion of permafrost carbon to greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Qayyum, Samee, Alabdulhafith, Aziz, Hijjawi
Background: Predicting wildfire progression is vital for countering its detrimental effects. While numerous studies over the years have delved into forecasting various elements of wildfires, many of these complex models are perceived as “black boxes”, making it challenging to…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masa, Kintzios, Vasileiou, Meditskos, Vrochidis, Kompatsiaris
Forest fires can have devastating effects on the environment, communities, individuals, economy, and climate change in many countries. During a forest fire crisis, massive amounts of data, such as weather patterns and soil conditions, become available. Efficient management,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuur, Abbott, Commane, Ernakovich, Euskirchen, Hugelius, Grosse, Jones, Koven, Leshyk, Lawrence, Loranty, Mauritz, Olefeldt, Natali, Rodenhizer, Salmon, Schädel, Strauss, Treat, Turetsky
Rapid Arctic environmental change affects the entire Earth system as thawing permafrost ecosystems release greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Understanding how much permafrost carbon will be released, over what time frame, and what the relative emissions of carbon dioxide and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heal
[First paragraph] Firefighters are embarking on an ambitious experiment to stamp out blazes deep in the Alaskan wilderness as a way to avert carbon emissions in what experts say is a seismic shift in thinking in modern wildfire management that has traditionally focused only on…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shi, Levy, Remer, Mattoo, Arnold
Starting from point sources, wildfire smoke is important in the global aerosol system. The ability to characterize smoke near-source is key to modeling smoke dispersion and predicting air quality. With hemispheric views and 10-min refresh, imagers in Geostationary (GEO) orbit…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Liu, Ke, Zhang, Ma, Fan
The vertical distribution of biomass burning aerosol (BBA) is important in regulating their impacts on weather and climate. The plume-rise process affects the injection height of BBA and interacts with the air parcel lifting and cloud processes. However, these processes are not…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Dios
Wildfires are a natural phenomenon in many terrestrial ecosystems. However, human activity is changing fire regimes. Some argue that the frequency of extreme wildfire events, characterized by very high intensities and rates of spread, may be increasing (Duane et al., 2021).…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shirman, Shirman, Liu
Sub-micron particles are ubiquitous in the indoor environment, especially during wildfire smoke episodes, and have a higher impact on human health than larger particles. Conventional fibrous air filters installed in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems play…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mankame, Shotorban
Spot fires created by wind–carrying firebrands are common in wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires. Firebrand deposition over cubic blocks in tandem and parallel arrangements representing simplified nearby small structures in WUI was studied. The flow turbulence was modeled by …
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nim, Morris, Tekasakul, Dejchanchaiwong
Peatland fires are one of the major global sources of atmospheric particles. Emission factors for fine (PM1 and PM2.5) and ultrafine (PM0.1) particles and particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from plants in the peat swamp forest (PSF), including Melaleuca…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES