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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Oliveira de Morais, Berenguer, Barlow, França, Lennox, Malhi, Chesini Rossi, Moraes de Seixas, Ferreira
Leaf-litter production is an essential part of the carbon cycle of tropical forests. In the Amazon, it is influenced by climate, presenting high levels during the driest months of the year. However, it is less established how extreme climatic events may impact leaf-litter…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Almeida Pereira, Fusioka, Nassu, Minetto
Active fire detection in satellite imagery is of critical importance to the management of environmental conservation policies, supporting decision-making and law enforcement. This is a well established field, with many techniques being proposed over the years, usually based on…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guo
Human activities and global change have resulted in more severe and destructive megafires in forest ecosystems worldwide. Here, I introduce and discuss the concept of 'management mosaics' and how to use it over both space and time to mitigate the growing impacts of extreme…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Trends and transitions in the growing season MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series at 250-m resolution were analyzed for the period from 2000 to 2018 to understand recent patterns of vegetation change in…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drüke, von Bloh, Sakschewski, Wunderling, Petri, Cardoso, Barbosa, Thonicke
Tropical rainforests are recognized as one of the terrestrial tipping elements which could have profound impacts on the global climate, once their vegetation has transitioned into savanna or grassland states. While several studies investigated the savannization of, e.g., the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Varner, Hood, Aubrey, Yedinak, Hiers, Jolly, Shearman, McDaniel, O'Brien, Rowell
The dead foliage of scorched crowns is one of the most conspicuous signatures of wildland fires. Globally, crown scorch from fires in savannas, woodlands, and forests causes tree stress and death across diverse taxa. The term crown scorch, however, is inconsistently and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jonko, Yedinak, Conley, Linn
Atmospheric forcing and interactions between the fire and atmosphere are primary drivers of wildland fire behavior. The atmosphere is known to be a chaotic system that, although deterministic, is very sensitive to small perturbations to initial conditions. We assume that as a…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Pei, Liu, Wu, Li, Fang, Nie
A consensus about the fire-related soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) impacts that determine soil health and ecosystem services at the global scale remains elusive. Here, we conducted a global meta-analysis of 3173 observations with 1444, 1334, 228 and 167 observations for soil C…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Keeley
No single factor produces wildfires; rather, they occur when fire thresholds (ignitions, fuels, and drought) are crossed. Anomalous weather events may lower these thresholds and thereby enhance the likelihood and spread of wildfires. Climate change increases the frequency with…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frangieh, Accary, Rossi, Morvan, Meradji, Marcelli, Chatelon
The effectiveness of a fuelbreak, created in a homogeneous grassland on a flat terrain, was studied numerically. The analysis relies on 3D numerical simulations that were performed using a detailed physical-fire-model (FIRESTAR3D) based on a multiphase formulation. To avoid…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Liu, Huang
Smouldering wildfire is an important disturbance to peatlands worldwide; it contributes significantly to global carbon emissions and provides positive feedback to climate change. Herein, we explore the feasibility of firebreaks to control smouldering peat fires through…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yuan, Restuccia, Rein
As organic porous soil, peat is prone to self-heating ignition, a type of spontaneous initiation of fire that can take place at ambient temperatures without an external source. Despite the urgency to tackle peat fires, the understanding of the self-heating ignition of peat is…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark
WindNinja, a tool developed by RMRS scientists, delivers high-resolution wind predictions within seconds for emergency fire responders making on-the-ground decisions. The program computes spatially-varying wind fields to help predict winds at small scales in complex terrain.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Panda, Bhatt, Meyer, Badola, Hrobak
In recent years, there have been rapid improvements in both remote sensing methods and satellite image availability that have the potential to massively improve burn severity assessments of the Alaskan boreal forest. In this study, we utilized recent pre- and post-fire Sentinel-…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Veraverbeke, Delcourt, Kukavskaya, Mack, Walker, Hessilt, Rogers, Scholten
Increases in arctic-boreal fires can switch these biomes from a long-term carbon (C) sink to a source of atmospheric C through direct fire emissions and longer-term emissions from soil respiration. We here review advances made by the arctic-boreal fire science community over the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quan, Yebra, Riaño, He, Lai, Liu
Fuel moisture content (FMC) of live vegetation is a crucial wildfire risk and spread rate driver. This study presents the first daily FMC product at a global scale and 500 m pixel resolution from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and radiative transfer…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Badola, Panda, Roberts, Waigl, Bhatt, Smith, Jandt
Alaska has witnessed a significant increase in wildfire events in recent decades that have been linked to drier and warmer summers. Forest fuel maps play a vital role in wildfire management and risk assessment. Freely available multispectral datasets are widely used for land use…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
dos Anjos, Solé, Benchimol
Fire is a powerful environmental disturbance with the ability to shape many biomes worldwide. However, global warming, land-use changes and other anthropogenic factors have strongly altered natural fire regimes worldwide. Despite the growing number of studies evaluating the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masoudvaziri, Bardales, Keskin, Sarreshtehdari, Sun, Elhami-Khorasani
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is defined as a geographic area where human developments and flammable vegetation merge in a wildfire-prone environment. Losses due to wildfire have been rising in the past decade, attributed to changes in vegetation growth, fuel availability,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flores, Haire
For over 100 years, the US Forest Service (USFS) has developed initiatives to improve safety outcomes. Herein we discuss the engineered solutions used from 1910 through 1994, when the agency relied on physical science to address the hazards of wildland fire suppression. We then…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moura Batista dos Santos, Bento-Gonçalves, Vieira
Evaluating the impact of wildland fires on landscapes, a pursuit increasingly supported by remote sensing techniques, requires an understanding of wildfire dynamics. This research highlights the main insights from the literature related to “wildfires” and “remote sensing”…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Moore
Alaska is faced with a unique fire management problem that has been handled in an interagency way for more than 30 years. The evolution of fire management has led to a different approach in interagency cooperation; weather data management; fire behavior and fire danger…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amjad, Chojecki, Osornio-Vargas, Ospina
Background: Maternal wildfire exposure (e.g., smoke, stress) has been associated with poor birth outcomes with effects potentially mediated through air pollution and psychosocial stress. Despite the recent hike in the intensity and frequency of wildfires in some regions of the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Heath, Emery, Hicke, Littell, Lucier, Masek, Peterson, Pouyat, Potter, Robertson, Sperry
United States forestland is an important ecosystem type, land cover, land use, and economic resource that is facing several drivers of change including climatic. Because of its significance, forestland was identified through the National Climate Assessment (NCA) as a key sector…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Ban, Nascetti
Sentinel-2 MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) data exhibits the great potential of enhanced spatial and temporal coverage for monitoring biomass burning which could complement other coarse active fire detection products. This paper aims to investigate the use of reflective…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES