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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Mangelsdorf
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
[Excerpted from text] Violent or erratic fire behavior often develops as a complete surprise even to the more experienced fire fighters. Such behavior usually is not completely explained and is frequently dismissed with the remark that the fire suddenly "blew up." Unusual fire…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arnold, Buck
"Blow-up" fires are defined as those which exhibit violent build-up in fire intensity or rate of spread sufficient to prevent direct control by efficient application of conventional firefighting methods. Blow-ups are an increasingly important cause of large fires and can arise…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Byram
A study of atmospheric conditions related to blowup fires.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Robichaud, Massman
Accurately modeling the duration and extent of soil heating from prescribed fires and wildfires is vital to predicting many second-order fire effects, including development of soil hydrophobicity and other biological, chemical, and physical effects. Advancements have been made…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Duffy, Fresco
Fire activity in Alaska has increased significantly over the past several decades, and the top three years in terms of area burned have occurred since 2004. Increased fire activity has occurred coincident with novel extremes in summer weather, which strongly drive interannual…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hood, Varner, van Mantgem
Forests represent a major source of carbon storage, drive numerous ecosystem processes, and have huge economic and social importance. Wildland and prescribed fires burn millions of forested acres annually, making accurate prediction of post-fire effects and the likelihood of…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCambridge
Reports on black-headed budworm activity in southeast Alaska, spruce beetle on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska and larch beetle along the Kuskokwim River in interior Alaska during the summer of 1954.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Banfield
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bárta
Presented by Jiří Bárta, Ph. D, University of South Bohemia
Arctic permafrost soils contain about half of the global soil organic C (approx. 1300 Pg). One third of this C is stored in subducted organic matter (cryoOM) by the cryoturbation processes. We here present results from…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Chatelain
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards
Description not entered.
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landrau, Lugo-Lopez, Samuels, Silva
[no description entered]
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
June
Presented by Nicole June as part of the REU Workshop on August 8th, 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rogers, Dempster, Hawkins, Johnston, Boxall, Rolfe, Kragt, Burton, Pannell
Prioritising investments to minimise or mitigate natural hazards such as wildfires and storms is of increasing importance to hazard managers. Prioritisation of this type can be strengthened by considering benefit and cost impacts. To evaluate benefits and costs, managers require…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belenguer-Plomer, Tanase, Fernandez-Carrillo, Chuvieco
This paper presents a burned area mapping algorithm based on change detection of Sentinel-1 backscatter data guided by thermal anomalies. The algorithm self-adapts to the local scattering conditions and it is robust to variations of input data availability. The algorithm applies…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES