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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Update from UAF Seasonal Prediction Project

Bhatt
UAF professor Uma Bhatt reviews progress on the NOAA funded project to improve longer-term predictions of Alaska's fire season. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

HRRR Model Forecasts of Convective Outflows near Fires

Ziel
AFSC fire analyst Robert Ziel provides an update on a new project to forecast convective outflows from thunderstorms. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop. Note: Zeke gave this talk without the slides, so the slides include references to material that he did not…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Preparing for wildfires and extreme weather: plant design and operation recommendations

Becker, Hohner, Rosario-Ortiz, DeWolfe
Utilities can recover from wildfires and extreme weather events with resiliency plans and operation designs that address subsequent water quality challenges.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire Potential Assessment in Alaska: What we do and why we do it

Moore
October 11th, 2018. Part of the annual Fall Fire Review, the presentation assessed the new National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) vs the Fire Weather Index (FWI) for Alaska.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Over Forecasting Precipitation Amounts and Subsequent Impacts to the Fine Fuels Moisture Code

Plumb
October 11th, 2018. Part of the annual Fall Fire Review, the presentation presented the National Weather Services analysis the affects of forecast precipitation on fire weather predictions and how they plan to solve them.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Progress Report: Seasonal and Subseasonal Prediction, EPSCoR Project

Bhatt, Veazey
Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a progress report on seasonal and subseasonal predictions as well as an introduction to a EPSCoR project.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

2018 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report

Melvin
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils (CPFC) worked collaboratively to produce the 2018 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report. Since 2012, this report has been compiled every three years, and is unique among fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

Archibald, Lehmann, Belcher, Bond, Bradstock, Daniau, Dexter, Forrestel, Greve, He, Higgins, Hoffmann, Lamont, McGlinn, Moncrieff, Osborne, Pausas, Price, Ripley, Rogers, Schwilk, Simon, Turetsky, Van der Werf, Zanne
Roughly 3% of the Earth's land surface burns annually, representing a critical exchange of energy and matter between the land and atmosphere via combustion. Fires range from slow smouldering peat fires, to low-intensity surface fires, to intense crown fires, depending on…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges - Part 2

Zupko, Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
This webinar addresses additional issues and questions that arose during the original webinar, “Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges." Moderator: Mike Zupko, Executive Director, Wildland Fire Leadership Council. Panelists: Pete Lahm, Smoke Manager, U.S.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Establishment of a wildfire forecasting system based on coupled weather-wildfire modeling

Rim, Om, Ren, Kim, Kim, Kang-Chol
The Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) includes a wildland fire-behavior module, WRF-Fire, which simulates wildland fire interactions with the atmosphere. Combining the WRF model with the coupled weather–wildland fire model allows simulations of wildland fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire, Smoke, and Air Quality

Johnson
This webinar will discuss various agricultural and forestry fires and their impacts on air quality, including smoke and other air emissions. Basic Smoke Management Practices (BSMPs) will be discussed as means to minimize air quality impacts from prescribed fires.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Post-fire soil management

Pereira, Francos, Brevik, Ubeda, Bogunovic
Soils are an important natural capital and can be negatively affected by high severity fires. The capacity of soil to recover from the degradation caused by fire disturbance depends on fire history, ash properties, topography, post-fire weather, vegetation recuperation and post-…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Modeling and Reports in IFTDSS

Vaillant
The beauty of IFTDSS is that nearly everything is exportable as a report or summary, including landscape fire behavior. This webinar provides an in-depth look at landscape fire behavior and reports in IFTDSS.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Smoke Dispersion Modeling: A Brief Review and Example of Real-World Application

Kiefer
The Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange  held a partners meeting, Igniting Exchange: Bridging the Gap between Science and Management. A true EXCHANGE designed to expose fire managers to useful scientific studies and expose…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Wildland Smoke Series: Webinar 2

Baker, Kelly, Hagler
This is the second webinar offered in the Air Quality Planning for Wildland Smoke series.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES