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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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LeQuire, Hunter
From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Staller
From the text ... '..., in today's world with imcreasing populations, and more people living in the wildland urban interface, prescribed burn practitioners must put more emphasis on smoke management. If we don't manage our smoke and the resulting negative impacts, then the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steufer
The WFR-Chem model can produce valuable smoke emissions and fire spread information along with up to a 72 hour smoke forecast. This model can be used by fire and resouce managers, city and borough personnel and others. Feedback is needed for improved graphics and output.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Henderson, Johnston
Exposure to forest fire smoke is episodic, which makes its health effects challenging to study. We review the newest contributions to a growing literature on acute respiratory outcomes.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randall, Harr
Managing smoke produced by prescribed fires has, in recent years, become a critical consideration when planning a prescribed fire event. In some situations, planning for smoke management may be more complicated than planning for the prescribed fire itself. Considerations such as…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raffuse, Craig, Larkin, Strand, Sullivan, Wheeler, Solomon
Plume injection height influences plume transport characteristics, such as range and potential for dilution. We evaluated plume injection height from a predictive wildland fire smoke transport model over the contiguous United States (U.S.) from 2006 to 2008 using satellite-…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fernández-Berni, Carmona-Galán, Martínez-Carmona, Rodríguez-Vázquez
Wireless sensor networks constitute a powerful technology particularly suitable for environmental monitoring. With regard to wildfires, they enable low-cost fine-grained surveillance of hazardous locations like wildland-urban interfaces. This paper presents work developed during…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning, are often challenged…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, French, Ottmar
In recent years, wildfires have emerged as an important part of the global environment. Carbon released from fires during combustion alters the global carbon balance. Smoke emissions are a health hazard to nearby communities [Wegesser et al., 2009], can impair air quality and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Hoy
A method was developed to estimate carbon consumed during wildland fires in interior Alaska based on medium-spatial scale data (60 m cell size) generated on a daily basis. Carbon consumption estimates were developed for 41 fire events in the large fire year of 2004 and 34 fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McCaffrey, Olsen
As part of a Joint Fire Science Program project, a team of social scientists reviewed existing fire social science literature to develop a targeted synthesis of scientific knowledge on the following questions: 1. What is the public's understanding of fire's role in the ecosystem…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
This paper is the second of two reviewing scientific literature from 100 years of research addressing interactions between the atmosphere and fire behaviour. These papers consider research on the interactions between the fuels burning at any instant and the atmosphere, and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Beji, Verstockt, Van de Walle, Merci
The concept of numerical simulations for real-time Numerical Fire Forecasting is illustrated for the case of natural smoke filling of a large-scale atrium in case of fire. The numerical simulations are performed within the Inverse Zone Modelling framework. The technique consists…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robertson
The purpose of the workshop was for research scientists, air quality specialists, policy administrators, and others to present and discuss recent advances in research relating to estimation of emission factors for particulate matter (PM) and its constituents (organic carbon,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Jin, Giglio, Foley, Randerson
Fires in agricultural ecosystems emit greenhouse gases and aerosols that influence climate on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Annex 1 countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), many of which ratified the Kyoto Protocol, are required to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Randerson, Chen, Van der Werf, Rogers, Morton
In several biomes, including croplands, wooded savannas, and tropical forests, many small fires occur each year that are well below the detection limit of the current generation of global burned area products derived from moderate resolution surface reflectance imagery. Although…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Strand, Drury, Raffuse, Solomon, O'Neill, Wheeler, Huang, Rorig, Hafner
Managers, regulators, and others often need information on the emissions from wildland fire and their expected smoke impacts. In order to create this information, combinations of models are utilized. The modeling steps follow a logical progression from fire activity through to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, DeWinter, Strand, Brown, Raffuse, Callahan, Craig, Solomon, Hafner
The deposition of black carbon (BC), a dark absorbing aerosol, is a significant contributor to observed warming trends in the Arctic (Hansen and Nazarenko, 2004; Jacobson et al., 2007). Biomass burning outside of the Arctic, including wildland prescribed fires, is a major…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hyde, Smith, Bye
A report to the NWCG Smoke Committee examining the degree of smoke training (via completion of 'Smoke Management Techniques' or 'Prescribed Fire Plan Preparation') for positions identified by a previous report as having smoke management criteria within their position task books…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ghio, Soukup, Case, Dailey, Richards, Berntsen, Devlin, Stone, Rappold
Objectives: Human exposure to wood smoke particles (WSP) impacts on human health through changes in indoor air quality, exposures from wild fires, burning of biomass and air pollution. This investigation tested the postulate that healthy volunteers exposed to WSP would…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Broughton, Lahm, Fitch, O'Neill
States in the humid southeastern US (ex. Louisiana, South Carolina) are investigating or already implementing a methodology developed in the arid intermountain west where particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) concentrations…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Based on its review of the air quality criteria and the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM), the EPA is making revisions to the suite of standards for PM to provide requisite protection of public health and welfare and to make corresponding…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand, Wheeler
Fire emissions and smoke impacts from wildland fire are a growing concern due to increasing fire season severity, dwindling tolerance of smoke by the public, tightening air quality regulations, and their role in climate change issues. Unfortunately, as identified in JFSP RFA…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand
New regulations for black carbon (BC) currently under consideration by Congress and the EPA could affect management decisions on wildfires and the ability to conduct prescribed burning. Congressional testimony has suggested various mitigation strategies for Arctic BC including…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Brewer
Currently stand-level carbon assessments have not included the fraction of biomass converted to black carbon during a fire event. This proposal builds off a current research project evaluating the effects of repeated burning of masticated fuels have on long-term black carbon…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES