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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Barrett, Kasischke
Fire activity in the Alaskan boreal forest, though episodic at annual and intra-annual time scales, has experienced an increase over the last several decades. Increases in burned area and fire severity are not only releasing more carbon to the atmosphere, but likely shifting…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant, Ager, Anderson
Fire behavior modeling and geospatial analyses can provide tremendous insight for land managers as they grapple with the complex problems frequently encountered in wildfire risk assessments and fire and fuels management planning. Fuel management often is a particularly…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier
A cellular automata fire model represents 'elements' of fire by autonomous agents. A few simple algebraic expressions substituted for complex physical and meteorological processes and solved iteratively yield simulations for 'super-diffusive' fire spread and coupled surface-…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ryan, Opperman
LANDFIRE is the working name given to the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project (http://www.landfire.gov). The project was initiated in response to mega-fires and the need for managers to have consistent, wall-to-wall (i.e., all wildlands regardless of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Cantin, de Groot, Wotton, Newbery, Gowman
We used Cumulative Severity Rating (CSR), a weather-based fire danger metric, to examine the potential influence of climate change on global fire season severity. The potential influence of climate change on fire season length was also addressed. We used three General…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
de Groot, Flannigan, Cantin
Fire disturbance is a primary driver of forest dynamics across the circumpolar boreal region, although there are major differences in continental fire regimes. Relatively infrequent, high intensity crown fires dominate North American boreal forests, and low to moderate intensity…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Williams
In the modern era, high-impact mega-fires are unprecedented for the suppression costs, property losses, natural resource damages, and loss of life often involved. For a number of years, these extraordinary wildfires have been increasing in number and in severity. They affect…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Cruz
This paper constitutes a digest and critique of the currently available information pertaining to the influence of live fuel or foliar moisture content (FMC) on the spread rate of crown fires in conifer forests and shrublands. We review and discuss the findings from laboratory…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson, Keith, Martin
Fuel moisture plays an important role in predicting wildfire spread rates, fuel consumption, and heat output. The purpose of this study was to find how much we can simplify an F and H layer moisture model by comparing an empirical-phenomenalistic drying model with a mechanistic…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Terrier, Girardin, Périé, Legendre, Bergeron
There is general consensus that wildfires in boreal forests will increase throughout this century in response to more severe and frequent drought conditions induced by climate change. However, prediction models generally assume that the vegetation component will remain static…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Ottmar, Rupp, Jandt, Miller, Howard, Schmoll, Theisen, Vihnanek, Jimenez
Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinning) fuel treatments have become the preferred strategy of many fire managers and agencies for reducing fire hazard in boreal forests. This study attempts to characterize the effectiveness of four fuel treatments through…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolken, Hollingsworth
Alaskan forests cover one-third of the state's 52 million ha of land (Parson et al. 2001), and are regionally and globally significant. Ninety percent of Alaskan forests are classified as boreal, representing 4 percent of the world's boreal forests, and are located throughout…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Vose
Climate profoundly shapes forests. Forest species composition, productivity, availability of goods and services, disturbance regimes, and location on the landscape are all regulated by climate. Much research attention has focused on the problem of projecting the response of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Ager
Risk analysis evolved out of the need to make decisions concerning highly stochastic events, and is well suited to analyse the timing, location and potential effects of wildfires. Over the past 10 years, the application of risk analysis to wildland fire management has seen…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keane
Wildland fuelbeds are exceptionally complex, consisting of diverse particles of many sizes, types and shapes with abundances and properties that are highly variable in time and space. This complexity makes it difficult to accurately describe, classify, sample and map fuels for…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Models of fire behavior and effects do not always make accurate predictions, and there is not enough systematically gathered data to validate them. To help advance fire behavior and fire effects model development, the Joint Fire Science Program is helping fund the RxCADRE, which…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Romero, Menakis
The fuels and fire ecology program within the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management (FAM) program is aimed at protecting people and property from experiencing harm by wildfire, while taking actions to improve forest conditions. Since 2001, the Forest Service has treated…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Suzuki, Manzello, Hayashi
Wildfires that spread into communities, commonly referred to as Wildland-Urban Interface fires (WUI), are a significant international problem. Post-fire damage studies have suggested for some time that firebrands are a significant cause of structure ignition in WUI fires, yet…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cochrane, Wimberly, Eidenshink, Zhu, Ohlen, Finney, Reeves
The fire situation in the United States is well documented with a growing prevalence of larger and more intense fires that have increasingly severe consequences for affected ecosystems and human health and well being. Increasingly, fuels management has been put forth and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Veblen, Tepley, Holz, Paritsis
This project consisted of organizing and executing a one-day symposium on “Wildfire Regime Shifts in Temperate Forest Ecosystems” in conjunction with the triennial meeting of the Southern Connection Congress. The VIIth Southern Connection Congress drew together more than 350…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cawrse, Van Dyck, Crookston, Robinson, Beukema
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and its associated Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) have been used to provide information required by larger software systems like the Interagency Fuels Treatment-Decision Support System (IFT-DSS). Interacting with FVS in an automated fashion…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hermanns
Presented at the 2013 Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting, Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms, Fairbanks
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alden
Presented at the 2013 Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting, Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms, Fairbanks
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Duffy
Presented at the 2013 Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting, Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms, Fairbanks
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
In 2012 the AWFCG Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee (FMAC) identified the need to determine live fuel moisture contents as these are direct inputs into fire behavior modeling software currently being used in Alaska (e.g. WFDSS FSPro, Short-Term-Fire Behavior; BEHAVE; and…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES