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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Grissino-Mayer
An increment borer is the primary tool used to collect samples for dendrochronological analyses. These are precision instruments and users should be trained in their proper use, care, and maintenance. In this paper, I describe the various parts of an increment borer and how to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trigg
Calculated values of precipitation effectiveness index and temperature efficiency index for 48 weather observation stations on the Alaska mainland are used to delineate areas that have different climatic subclassifications during the wildfire season of April through September.…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Swystun, Flannigan
Great efforts have been made to understand the impacts of a changing climate on fire activity; however, a reliable approach with high prediction confidence has yet to be found. By establishing linkages between the longest duration of fire-conducive weather spell and fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fillmore, McCaffrey
To improve understanding of the managed wildfire decision-making process on federal lands (USA), we conducted a mixed methods review of the existing literature. The review was published in September, 2021 in the journal Fire. The review spanned from 1976 to 2013 and used…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Webb, Loranty, Lichstein
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average, due in part to the albedo feedbacks of a diminishing cryosphere. As snow cover extent decreases, the underlying land is exposed, which has lower albedo and therefore absorbs more radiation, warming the surface and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp, Wilson
Wildland fire incident management teams (IMTs) require sustained and coordinated decision-making across levels of authority during dynamic and high-risk events. Trust between team members is important for maintaining the efficient flow of information and allowing team members to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belval, Short, Stonesifer, Calkin
A severe outbreak of wildfire across the US Pacific Coast during August 2020 led to persistent fire activity through the end of summer. In late September, Fire Weather Outlooks predicted higher than usual fire activity into the winter in parts of California, with concomitant…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sargentis, Ioannidis, Bairaktaris, Frangedaki, Dimitriadis, Iliopoulou, Koutsoyiannis, Lagaros
There is a widespread perception that every year wildfires are intensifying on a global scale, something that is often used as an indicator of the adverse impacts of global warming. However, from the analysis of wildfires that have occurred in the US, Canada, and Mediterranean…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] Under this strategy, the Forest Service will work with partners to engineer a paradigm shift by focusing fuels and forest health treatments more strategically and at the scale of the problem, using the best available science as the guide. At the Forest Service,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ballinger
Alaska’s central and eastern interior (CEI), including the greater Tanana Valley and Yukon Flats, has consistently been the most fire prone area of the state during the last two decades. Toward operational and research applications, several surface fire weather indicators have…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bailon-Ruiz, Bit-Monnot, Lacroix
This paper introduces a wildfire monitoring system based on a fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to provide firefighters with precise and up-to-date information about a propagating wildfire, so that they can devise efficient suppression actions. We present an approach to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak, Barnes
National Park Service Resource Brief for the Arctic Inventory and Monitory Network which briefly summarizes the status of fire extent and frequency in ARCN parks and highlights the historic fire record (WFMI) & perimeter improvements. The brief is written for a non-…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vachula, Liang, Sae-Lim, Xie
Recent fire events in Alaskan tundra ecosystems have been identified as harbingers of climate change and have caused reassessment of more traditional thinking about fire activity in this high-latitude biome. Although some work has demonstrated the novelty of these fires and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Demange, Di Fonso, Di Stefano, Vittorini
In the last decade, wildfires have become wider and more destructive. Climate change and the growth of urban areas are among the main factors that increase the risk of large-scale fires. This risk can be lowered with preventive measures. Among them, firefighting lines are used…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arab, Khodaei, Eskandarpour, Thompson, Wei
Wildfires pose a significant challenge to the natural and the built environments, as well as the safety and economic wellbeing of the communities residing in wildfire-prone areas. The electric power grid is specifically among the built environments most affected by, and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark
Aircraft play vital roles in managing wildfire, but their use is both costly and inherently risky. On average, USDA Forest Service aviation costs represent 30 percent of annual firefighting expenditures. And despite improvements in airworthiness and safety in the last decade,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
González, González-Trujillo, Muñoz, Armenteras
Fire is a natural agent with a paramount role in ecosystem functioning and biodiversity maintenance. Still, it can also act as a negative force against many ecosystems. Despite some knowledge of the interactions of fire and vegetation, there is no clear understanding of how…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masrur, Taylor, Harris, Barnes, Petrov
Although the link between climate change and tundra fire activity is well-studied, we lack an understanding of how fire, vegetation, and topography interact to either amplify or dampen climatic effects on these tundra fires at Pan-Arctic scale. This study investigated the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bloem, Cullen, Abatzoglou, Mearns, Belval
Background: The rising occurrence of simultaneous large wildfires has put strain on United States national fire management capacity leading to increasing reliance on assistance from partner nations abroad. However, limited analysis exists on international resource-sharing…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhou, Wang, Simeoni, Dong
Background: Fire whirls are often reported to occur in wildland fires and can induce serious difficulties in firefighting by abruptly modifying fire behaviour, exposing firefighters and even causing casualties.
Aims: The aim of this study was to examine the formation of fire…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Wang, Yang, Liu
Global climate change and extreme weather has a profound impact on wildfire, and it is of great importance to explore wildfire patterns in the context of global climate change for wildfire prevention and management. In this paper, a wildfire spatial prediction model based on…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Rafferty, Santos, Ennis, Perry, McKee
Natural disasters, such as wildfires, can cause widespread devastation. Future-proofing infrastructure, such as buildings and bridges, through technological advancements is crucial to minimize their impact. Fires in disasters often stem from damaged fuel lines and electrical…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips, Rogers, Elder, Cooperdock, Moubarak, Randerson, Frumhoff
Wildfires in boreal forests release large quantities of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change. Here, we characterize the magnitude of recent and projected gross and net boreal North American wildfire carbon dioxide emissions, evaluate fire management as…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fillmore, McCaffrey, Bean, Evans, Iniguez, Thode, Smith, Thompson
Background: The decision making process undertaken during wildfire responses is complex and prone to uncertainty. In the US, decisions federal land managers make are influenced by numerous and often competing factors.
Aims: To assess and validate the presence of decision factors…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoseph, Hoy, Elder, Ludwig, Thompson, Miller
Rapid warming in Arctic tundra may lead to drier soils in summer and greater lightning ignition rates, likely culminating in enhanced wildfire risk. Increased wildfire frequency and intensity leads to greater conversion of permafrost carbon to greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES