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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fraser, van der Sluijs, Hall
Wildfires are a dominant disturbance to boreal forests, and in North America, they typically cause widespread tree mortality. Forest fire burn severity is often measured at a plot scale using the Composite Burn Index (CBI), which was originally developed as a means of assigning…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jean, Alexander, Mack, Johnstone
Bryophytes are dominant components of boreal forest understories and play a large role in regulating soil microclimate and nutrient cycling. Therefore, shifts in bryophyte communities have the potential to affect boreal forests’ ecosystem processes. We investigated how bryophyte…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gong, Kaulfus, Nair, Jaffe
Wildfires emit O3 precursors but there are large variations in emissions, plume heights, and photochemical processing. These factors make it challenging to model O3 production from wildfires using Eulerian models. Here we describe a statistical approach to characterize the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pingree, DeLuca
Fire is an important driver of change in most forest, savannah, and prairie ecosystems and fire-altered organic matter, or pyrogenic carbon (PyC), conveys numerous functions in soils of fire-maintained terrestrial ecosystems. Although an exceptional number of recent review…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olsen
From the text:'In November 1958 Fuel-Breaks workers began studies of the moisture content of green chaparral fuel. Since then study plots have been established and described, and instruments obtained and installed. In March of 1959 actual data collection began. This report tells…
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morton
From the text ... 'This paper describes an investigation of the turbulent forced plumes generated by steady release of mass, momentum and buoyancy from a source situated in an extensive region of uniform or stably stratified fluid. The treatment, which is an extension of earlier…
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Etheridge
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fenner, Bentley
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grobman, Mangelsdorf
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartley
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Galinat
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Krause, Rieger, Wilde
One of the frequently encountered characteristics of the boreal landscape is the extremely abrupt demarcation of soil-vegetation types. Sharp differentiation of plant communities may be caused by a number of conditions, such as severe fires, irregularities in drainage, invasion…
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Byram
Chapter in the book titled, Forest fire: control and use.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ronchi, Gwynne, Rein, Wadhwani, Intini, Bergstedt
The number of evacuees worldwide during wildfire keep rising, year after year. Fire evacuations at the wildland-urban interfaces (WUI) pose a serious challenge to fire and emergency services and are a global issue affecting thousands of communities around the world. But to date…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landry, Partanen, Matthews
Aerosols emitted by landscape fires affect many climatic processes. Here, we combined an aerosol–climate model and a coupled climate-carbon model to study the carbon cycle and climate effects caused by fire-emitted aerosols (FEA) forcing at the top of the atmosphere and at the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Li, Lawrence, Bond-Lamberty
Fire is a global phenomenon and tightly interacts with the biosphere and climate. This study provides the first quantitative assessment and understanding of fire's influence on the global annual land surface air temperature and energy budget through its impact on terrestrial…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lasslop, Kloster
We assess the influence of humans on burned area simulated with a dynamic global vegetation model. The human impact in the model is based on population density and cropland fraction, which were identified as important drivers of burned area in analyses of global datasets, and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute presents this short film about the critical importance of wilderness fire science to understanding the complex nature of forest fires, and to informing natural resource management across all landscapes.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bond, Keane
Fire is both a natural and anthropogenic disturbance influencing the distribution, structure, and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems around the world. Many plants and animals depend on fire for their continued existence. Others species, such as rainforest plants species, are…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potential climate change impacts on fire intensity and key wildfire suppression thresholds in Canada
Much research has been carried out on the potential impacts of climate change on forest fire activity in the boreal forest. Indeed, there is a general consensus that, while change will vary regionally across the vast extent of the boreal, in general the fire environment will…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire Suppression in Subalpine and Boreal Conifer Forests: Impacts on Subsequent Fires and Succession
Presentation slides and recorded presentation to managers at the 2017 AFSC Spring Fire Science Workshop, 3/29/17, Fairbanks, Alaska. Winslow outlines proposed research to look at the long-term effects of fire suppression on boreal/alpine forests in Alaska/Colorado using a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Little
This presentation covers part of the findings of the JFSP-funded study "Duration and cost effectiveness of fuel treatments in the Alaska boreal region", Little, et al. 2014, namely how Alaskan homeowners contacted in surveys viewed personal and government responsibility for…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Juday
Dr. Juday discusses the evidence for CO2-mediated climate change in Alaska and the responses of tree species and populations around the state. Changes in season length and summer weather patterns are driving changes in boreal fire regime. Climate-related stresses on tree…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The NWCG Report on Wildland Firefighter Fatalities in the United States: 2007-2016 is a report examining the causes of death for firefighters who work for various organizations across the United States. We assessed trends and common factors of fatalities to help mitigate those…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waigl
This research addresses improvements to the detection and characterization of active wildfires in Alaska with satellite-based sensors. The VIIRS I-band Fire Detection Algorithm for High Latitudes (VIFDAHL) was developed and evaluated against existing active fire products from…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES