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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Zhang, Wang, Liu
Wildfires not only severely damage the natural environment and global ecological balance but also cause substantial losses to global forest resources and human lives and property. Unprecedented fire events such as Australia's bushfires have alerted us to the fact that wildfire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McHugh
This webinar provides an introduction and overview of the FlamMap modeling system and its new capabilities in version 6.2, with focus on several new additions. Hosted by the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network, a regional fire science exchange funded by the Joint Fire Science…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mendez, Farazmand
Spotting refers to the transport of burning pieces of firebrand by wind which, at the time of landing, may ignite new fires beyond the direct ignition zone of the main fire. Spot fires that occur far from the original burn unit are rare but have consequential ramifications since…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shmuel, Heifetz
Wildfires are a major natural hazard that lead to deforestation, carbon emissions, and loss of human and animal lives every year. Effective predictions of wildfire occurrence and burned areas are essential to forest management and firefighting. In this paper we apply various…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolaitis, Pallikarakis, Founti
Wildland fire rate of spread prediction models are important tools for the effective coordination of resident evacuation and fire suppression efforts. A comparative assessment of ten empirical and semi-empirical rate of spread prediction models is performed, using a selection of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
James, Ansaf, Al Samahi, Parker, Cutler, Gachette, Ansaf
Wildfire risk has globally increased during the past few years due to several factors. An efficient and fast response to wildfires is extremely important to reduce the damaging effect on humans and wildlife. This work introduces a methodology for designing an efficient machine…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Noah, Worden, Rebuli, Jaspers
Purpose of Review: To review the recent literature on the effects of wildfire smoke (WFS) exposure on asthma and allergic disease, and on potential mechanisms of disease.
Recent Findings: Spatiotemporal modeling and increased ground-level monitoring data are allowing a more…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Wooster
The Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) senses the Earth from onboard two concurrently operating European Copernicus Sentinel-3 (S3) satellites. As the Terra platform carrying the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is reaching its end of life,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Mao, Ricciuto, Jin, Yu, Shi, Wullschleger, Tang, Liu
Contemporary fire dynamics is one of the most complex and least understood land surface phenomena. Global fire controls related to climate, vegetation, and anthropogenic activity are usually intertwined, and difficult to disentangle in a quantitative way. Here, we leveraged an…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dockter
In this Open Office Hour, KBR Vegetation Scientist, Daryn Dockter discusses the ins and outs of how LANDFIRE maps Existing Vegetation Cover and Existing Vegetation Height products. Throughout the talk, he describes the update process and methods used to develop these highly…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Guimond, Reisner, Dubey
As the climate system warms, megafires have become more frequent with devastating effects. A byproduct of these events is the creation of smoke plumes that can rise into the stratosphere and spread across the globe where they reside for many months. To gain a deeper…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Bertone-Riggs, Brown, Goulette, Greiner, Kruse, Shively, Smith
[from the text] Our steering committee is dedicated to advancing federal policy to support wider use of prescribed fire and wildfire managed for resource benefits. Both these uses of fire are essential tools for fuel reduction, community protection, and the restoration of fire-…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lucash, Marshall, Weiss, McNabb, Nicolsky, Flerchinger, Link, Vogel, Scheller, Abramoff, Romanovsky
Boreal ecosystems account for 29% of the world's total forested area and contain more carbon than any other terrestrial biome. Over the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed twice as rapidly as the contiguous U.S. and wildfire activity has increased, including the number of fires,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ronchi, Wahlqvist, Ardinge, Rohaert, Gwynne, Rein, Mitchell, Kalogeropoulos, Kinateder, Bénichou, Kuligowski, Kimball
This paper introduces a protocol for the verification of multi-physics wildfire evacuation models, including a set of tests used to ensure that the conceptual modelling representation of each modelling layer is accurately implemented, as well as the interactions between…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elhami-Khorasani, Kinateder, Lemiale, Manzello, Marom, Marquez, Suzuki, Theodori, Wang, Wong
Large outdoor fires such as wildfires, wildland urban interface (WUI) fires, urban fires, and informal settlement fires have received increased attention in recent years. In order to develop effective emergency plans to protect people from threats associated with these events,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to the nation’s natural…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
St. Denis, Short, McConnell, Cook, Mietkiewicz, Buckland, Balch
This paper describes a dataset mined from the public archive (1999–2020) of the US National Incident Management System Incident Status Summary (ICS-209) forms (a total of 187,160 reports for 35,170 incidents, including 34,478 wildland fires). This system captures detailed daily/…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murphy, Alpers, Anderson, Banta, Blake, Carpenter, Clark, Clow, Hempel, Martin, Meador, Mendez, Mueller-Solger, Stewart, Payne, Peterman, Ebel
Wildfires pose a risk to water supplies in the western U.S. and many other parts of the world, due to the potential for degradation of water quality. However, a lack of adequate data hinders prediction and assessment of post-wildfire impacts and recovery. The dearth of such data…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giglio, Kendall
The demand for improved information on regional and global fire activity in the context of land use/land cover change, ecosystem disturbance, climate modeling, and natural hazards has increased efforts in recent years to improve earth-observing satellite sensors and associated…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Park, Takahashi, Li, Takakura, Fujimori, Hasegawa, Ito, Lee, Thiery
Fires and their associated carbon and air pollutant emissions have a broad range of environmental and societal impacts, including negative effects on human health, damage to terrestrial ecosystems, and indirect effects that promote climate change. Previous studies investigated…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marshall, Linn, Holmes, Goodrick, Thompson, Hemmati
Many wildfire behaviour modeling studies have focused on fires during extreme conditions, where the dominant processes are resolved and smaller-scale variations have less influence on fire behaviour. As such, wildfire behaviour models typically perform well for these cases.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Granda, Leon, Vitoriano, Hearne
Wildfires are recurrent natural events that have been increasing in frequency and severity in recent decades. They threaten human lives and damage ecosystems and infrastructure, leading to high recovery costs. To address the issue of wildfires, several activities must be managed…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
La Puma
Inga La Puma, Fire Scientist & Technical Lead* discusses the nuanced role that LANDFIRE plays as it provides foundational data for multiple tools within the natural resource community.
0:00 Intro
0:58 What's LANDFIRE?
1:29 LANDFIRE Milestones
2:36 Interrelationship between…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hood, McKinney, Ott, Hanberry, Jain
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. Rocky Mountain Research Station…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stevens, Dillon, Manley, Povak, Nepal
Introduction to SCIENCE x Day 4, brief overview by Jens StevensDelivering wildfire risk information targeted to the community level, presented by Greg DillonJuggling risks and tradeoffs toward a more resilient future: the known, unknown, unknowable, and the unpleasant, presented…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES