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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hurteau, Hungate, Koch, North, Smith
A forest carbon (C) offset is a quantifiable unit of C that is commonly developed at the local or regional project scale and is designed to counterbalance anthropogenic C emissions by sequestering C in trees. In cap-and-trade programs, forest offsets have market value if the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Metsaranta, Dymond, Kurz, Spittlehouse
Over the coming decades, climate change will increasingly affect forest ecosystem processes, but the future magnitude and direction of these responses is uncertain. We designed 12 scenarios combining possible changes in tree growth rates, decay rates, and area burned by wildfire…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zheng, Heath, Ducey, Smith
We estimated forest area and carbon changes in the conterminous United States using a remote sensing based land cover change map, forest fire data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program, and forest growth and harvest data from the USDA Forest Service, Forest…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zeng, Wang
The ratios of observed organic carbon (OC) to elemental carbon (EC) from the rural sites of the IMPROVE network are analyzed for the 5-year period from 2000 to 2004. Among these years, nationwide OC/EC peaks are observed most consistently in the summer of 2002. Several potential…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, de Groot, Jenkins, Rogers, Alvarado, Amiro, de Jong, Goetz, Hoy, Hyer, Keane, Law, McKenzie, McNulty, Ottmar, Perez-Salicrup, Randerson, Robertson, Turetsky
Research activities focused on estimating the direct emissions of carbon from wildland fires across North America are reviewed as part of the North American Carbon Program disturbance synthesis. A comparison of methods to estimate the loss of carbon from the terrestrial…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Benscoter, Thompson, Waddington, Flannigan, Wotton, de Groot, Turetsky
The boreal biome is characterised by extensive wildfires that frequently burn into the thick organic soils found in many forests and wetlands. Previous studies investigating surface fuel consumption generally have not accounted for variation in the properties of organic soils or…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thonicke, Spessa, Prentice, Harrison, Dong, Carmona-Moreno
A process-based fire regime model (SPITFIRE) has been developed, coupled with ecosystem dynamics in the LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, and used to explore fire regimes and the current impact of fire on the terrestrial carbon cycle and associated emissions of trace…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kloster, Mahowald, Randerson, Thornton, Hoffman, Levis, Lawrence, Feddema, Oleson, Lawrence
Fire is an integral Earth System process that interacts with climate in multiple ways. Here we assessed the parametrization of fires in the Community Land Model (CLM-CN) and improved the ability of the model to reproduce contemporary global patterns of burned areas and fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wiedinmyer, Hurteau
Carbon sequestration by forested ecosystems offers a potential climate change mitigation benefit. However, wildfire has the potential to reverse this benefit. In the western United States, climate change and land management practices have led to increases in wildfire intensity…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Soja, Al-Saadi, Pouliot, Kittaka, Zhang, Raffuse, Wiedinmyer
Area burned is one of four primary parameters necessary for estimating biomass burning emissions, and it is a parameter than remains illusive, particularly if we include all area burned. In this report, we compare the intensive 2002 ground-based data for the western United…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marchand, Prairie, Del Giorgio
Natural fires annually decimate up to 1% of the forested area in the boreal region of Quebec, and represent a major structuring force in the region, creating a mosaic of watersheds characterized by large variations in vegetation structure and composition. Here, we investigate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balshi, McGuire, Duffy, Flannigan, Kicklighter, Melillo
The boreal forest contains large reserves of carbon. Across this region, wildfires influence the temporal and spatial dynamics of carbon storage. In this study, we estimate fire emissions and changes in carbon storage for boreal North America over the 21st century. We use a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Krawchuk, de Groot, Wotton, Gowman
Wildland fire is a global phenomenon, and a result of interactions between climate-weather, fuels and people. Our climate is changing rapidly primarily through the release of greenhouse gases that may have profound and possibly unexpected impacts on global fire activity. The…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wieder, Scott, Kamminga, Vile, Vitt, Bone, Xu, Benscoter, Bhatti
Boreal peatland ecosystems occupy about 3.5 million km2 of the earth's land surface and store between 250 and 455 Pg of carbon (C) as peat. While northern hemisphere boreal peatlands have functioned as net sinks for atmospheric C since the most recent deglaciation, natural and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Langmann, Duncan, Textor, Trentmann, Van der Werf
Gaseous and particulate emissions from vegetation fires substantially modify the atmospheric chemical composition, degrade air quality and can alter weather and climate. The impact of vegetation fire emissions on air pollution and climate has been recognised in the late 1970s.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cahill, Cahill, Perry
Aerosols from wildfires are the primary aerosols in the Arctic atmosphere during the summer months. These aerosols occur in large, increasing quantities and impact the sensitive radiative balance in the Arctic. FROSTFIRE, a controlled burn in a Long-Term Ecological Research Area…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kurz, Stinson, Rampley
To understand how boreal forest carbon (C) dynamics might respond to anticipated climatic changes, we must consider two important processes. First, projected climatic changes are expected to increase the frequency of fire and other natural disturbances that would change the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Obrist, Moosmuller, Schurmann, Chen, Kreidenweis
Mercury emissions from wildfires are significant natural sources of atmospheric mercury, but little is known about what controls speciation of emissions important to mercury deposition processes. The goal of this study was to quantify gaseous elemental mercury (GEM) and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Myers-Smith, McGuire, Harden, Chapin
[1] We measured CO2 and CH4 exchange from the center of a Sphagnum-dominated permafrost collapse, through an aquatic moat, and into a recently burned black spruce forest on the Tanana River floodplain in interior Alaska. In the anomalously dry growing season of 2004, both the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoue, Gong, Stocks
The present paper proposes an original approach to estimate gaseous and particulate emissions from boreal forest fires based on the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction ( FBP) System. The FBP System permits calculation of fuel consumption and rate of spread for individual…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carroll, Blatner, Cohn, Morgan
In their classic article Allen and Gould (Allen, G.M., and E.M. Gould. 1986. Complexity, wickedness, and public forests. J. For. 84(4):20 -24) stated that the most daunting problems associated with public forest management had a ''wicked'' element: ''Wicked problems share…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kranabetter, Macadam
The extent of carbon (C) storage in forests and the change in C stocks after harvesting are important considerations in the management of greenhouse gases. We measured changes in C storage over time (from postharvest, postburn, year 5, year 10 and year 20) in logging slash,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sivakumar
Deserts are known to mankind, but the term desertification has always been an elusive concept. It is now defined in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as land degradation in the drylands (land failing within arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas)…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirano, Segah, Harada, Limin, June, Hirata, Osaki
Tropical peatlands, which coexist with swamp forests, have accumulated vast amounts of carbon as soil organic matter. Since the 1970s, however, deforestation and drainage have progressed on an enormous scale. In addition, El Nino and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) drought and large…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Randerson, Liu, Flanner, Chambers, Jin, Hess, Pfister, Mack, Treseder, Welp, Chapin, Harden, Goulden, Lyons, Neff, Schuur, Zender
We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS