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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melecio-Vázquez, Lautenberger, Hsieh, Amodeo, Porter, Wilson, Pope, Shu, Waeselynck, Kearns
Accurate representation of fire emissions and smoke transport is crucial for current and future wildfire-smoke projections. We present a flexible modeling framework for emissions sourced from the First Street Foundation Wildfire Model (FSF-WFM) to provide a national map for near…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This is a combined call for the NWCG Smoke Managers Sub-Committee and the WRAP Fire and Smoke Working Group. The intent of this occasional call series is to discuss operational smoke management issues and build understanding between the air regulatory and wildland fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ruby
This presentation and an associated article detail the physical demands and emerging health concerns facing wildland firefighters, in addition to the challenges that their sponsoring agencies must address to protect the health and performance of these key personnel and their…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Harvey, Holz, Huang, Hurteau, Ilangakoon, Jennings, Jones, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Kobziar, Kominoski, Kosović, Krawchuk, Laris, Leonard, Loria-Salazar, Lucash, Mahmoud, Margolis, Maxwell, McCarty, McWethy, Meyer, Miesel, Moser, Nagy, Niyogi, Palmer, Pellegrini, Poulter, Robertson, Rocha, Sadegh, Santos, Scordo, Sexton, Sharma, Smith, Soja, Still, Swetnam, Syphard, Tingley, Tohidi, Trugman, Turetsky, Varner, Wang, Whitman, Yelenik, Zhang
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of global change, impacting people and the biophysical systems on which they depend. As part of the newly…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mukunga, Forkel, Forrest, Zotta, Pande, Schlaffer, Dorigo
Fires are a pervasive feature of the terrestrial biosphere and contribute large carbon emissions within the earth system. Humans are responsible for the majority of fire ignitions. Physical and empirical models are used to estimate the future effects of fires on vegetation…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Comnick, Griffith
In their talk "Art on Fire," visual artists Bryan David Griffith and Julie Comnick share their projects related to wildfire, detail their approaches to creating art in conversation with science, and discuss how art can be a catalyst for change.
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kondo, Reid, Mockrin, Heilman, Long
Prescribed fire is an increasingly important tool in restoring ecological conditions and reducing uncontrolled wildfire. Prescribed burn techniques could reduce public health impacts associated with wildfire smoke exposure. However, there have been few assessments of the health…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Fletcher, Safdari, Amini, Palarea‐Albaladejo
Pyrolysate gas mixtures are multivariate and relative in nature. Statistical techniques applied to these data generally ignore their relative nature. Published data for permanent gases (CO, CO2, H2, CH4) and tars produced by pyrolysing 15 wildland fuels were reanalysed using…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garg, Roche, Eden, Matz, Oakes, Bellini, Gollner
Emission measurements are available in the literature for a wide variety of field burns and laboratory experiments, although previous studies do not always isolate the effect of individual features such as fuel moisture content (FMC). This study explores the effect of FMC on…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Zhan, Zhou, Chen, Cai, Guo, Hu, Li
Forest fires are a huge ecological hazard, and smoke is an early characteristic of forest fires. Smoke is present only in a tiny region in images that are captured in the early stages of smoke occurrence or when the smoke is far from the camera. Furthermore, smoke dispersal is…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Patoulias, Kallitsis, Posner, Pandis
The changes in the concentration and composition of biomass-burning organic aerosol (OA) downwind of a major wildfire are simulated using the one-dimensional Lagrangian chemical transport model PMCAMx-Trj. A base case scenario is developed based on realistic fire-plume…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Yang, Liang, Zheng, Yin, Tian, Cui
Forest fire is a ubiquitous disaster which has a long-term impact on the local climate as well as the ecological balance and fire products based on remote sensing satellite data have developed rapidly. However, the early forest fire smoke in remote sensing images is small in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cobian-Iñiguez, Richter, Camignani, Liveretou, Xiong, Stephens, Finney, Gollner, Fernandez-Pello
The current study presents a series of experiments investigating the smoldering behavior of woody fuel arrays at various porosities under the influence of wind. Wildland fuels are simulated using wooden cribs burned inside a bench scale wind tunnel. Smoldering behavior was…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
This seminar is part of Pennsylvania State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Fall 2021 EarthTalks Series: Fire in the Earth System(link is external). Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are getting larger, more destructive…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCarty
Fire activity and severity is increasing in the high northern latitudes, including burning landscapes long thought to be "fire resistant." Across the Pan-Arctic, smoke impacts from lengthening fire seasons in the boreal and the Arctic mean new public health challenges, as well…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Eriksen
This Perspective highlights the lingering consequences of nuclear disasters by examining the risks posed by wildfires that rerelease radioactive fallout originally deposited into the environment by accidents at nuclear power plants or testing of nuclear weapons. Such wildfires…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grant, Runkle
Wildfires pose a number of acute and chronic health threats, including increased morbidity and mortality. While much of the current literature has focused on the short-term health effects of forest fires and wildfire smoke, few reviews have sought to understand their long-term…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bray, Battye, Aneja, Schlesinger
Emissions of ammonia (NH3), oxides of nitrogen (NOx; NO +NO2), and nitrous oxide (N2O) from biomass burning were quantified on a global scale for 2001 to 2015. On average biomass burning emissions at a global scale over the period were as follows: 4.53 ± 0.51 Tg NH3 year−1, 14.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Huang, Pavlovic, Lahm, Rao
Wildland fire emissions from both wildfires and prescribed fires represent a major component of overall U.S. emissions. Obtaining an accurate, time-resolved inventory of these emissions is important for many purposes, including to account for emissions of greenhouse gases and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yue, Dong, Zhao, Ye
Massive Geo-tagged social media data provide new opportunities for disaster risk assessment, prevention, and management. This article presents a proof of concept for assessing wildfire risk using Geo-tagged social media data, by taking wildfire risk as a function of wildfire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Zhang, Li, Cochrane, Ciren
Smoke from fires significantly influences climate, weather, and human health. Fire smoke is traditionally detected using an aerosol index calculated from spectral contrast changes. However, such methods usually miss thin smoke plumes. It also remains challenging to accurately…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toman, Wilson, Jolly, Olsen
Fire weather tools, such as the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), have been developed to support wildland fire management decisions. However, little is known about how these tools are used in practice, the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiggins, Anderson, Brown, Campuzano-Jost, Chen, Crawford, Crosbie, Dibb, DiGangi, Diskin, Fenn, Gallo, Gargulinski, Guo, Hair, Halliday, Ichoku, Jimenez, Jordan, Katich, Nowak, Perring, Robinson, Sanchez, Schueneman, Schwarz, Shingler, Shook, Soja, Stockwell, Thornhill, Travis, Warneke, Winstead, Ziemba, Moore
Accurate fire emissions inventories are crucial to predict the impacts of wildland fires on air quality and atmospheric composition. Two traditional approaches are widely used to calculate fire emissions: a satellite-based top-down approach and a fuels-based bottom-up approach.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES