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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rey, Walvoord, Minsley, Ebel, Voss, Singha
As the Arctic warms and wildfire occurrence increases, talik formation in permafrost regions is projected to expand and affect the cycling of water and carbon. Yet, few unified field and modeling studies have examined this process in detail, particularly in areas of continuous…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Thoman
This AFSC research brief takes a look at early Alaska fire history from the 1940s. The "Zombie" Fires of 1942 is a historical narrative of an exceptional fire event related to the Alaska Railroad, including an early description of a holdover fire burning over winter.
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ritter, Hoffman, Battaglia, Stevens-Rumann, Mell
In frequent‐fire forests, wildland fire acts as a self‐ regulating process creating forest structures that consist of a fine‐grained mosaic of isolated trees, tree groups of various sizes, and non‐treed openings. Though the self‐regulation of forest structure through repeated…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loboda
The Wildland Fire Emissions Information System (WFEIS) designed by Michigan Tech (https://wfeis.mtri.org/) was used to estimate wildfire emissions and concentrations affecting populated areas across rural and urban Alaska. WFEIS is used by landscape, carbon, and air quality…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hunter, Robles
Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat, enhanced biodiversity, reduced threat of destructive wildfire, and enhanced ecosystem resilience. Prescribed fire can also come with costs, such as reduced…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hehnen, Arnold, La Mendola
A general procedure is described to generate material parameter sets to simulate fire propagation in horizontal cable tray installations. Cone Calorimeter test data are processed in an inverse modelling approach. Here, parameter sets are generated procedurally and serve as input…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Continuum Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Fire Ecology and the International Association of Wildland Fire, was designed to cover both the biophysical and human dimensions aspects of fire along the fire continuum. This proceedings includes many of topics…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCarthy, Morgan, Barrett, Porter
Just like the CDC recommends wearing a mask to protect you and your neighbor, we all play a part in keeping our communities safe from wildfire. As peak wildfire season approaches and we continue to fight #coronavirus, we’re learning more about how the pandemic will affect fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Gaudet, Simeoni, Gwynne, Kuligowski, Bénichou
Post-incident studies provide direct and valuable information to further the scientific understanding of Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. Most post-incident studies involve data collection in the field (i.e. a 'research field deployment'). In this review, technical reports…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lauer, Montgomery, Dietterich
Fire spread on forested landscapes depends on vegetation conditions across the landscape that affect the fire arrival probability and forest stand value. Landowners can control some forest characteristics that facilitate fire spread, and when a single landowner controls the…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp, Rabung, Wilson, Toman
In the United States, many decision support tools exist to provide fire managers with weather and fire behaviour information to inform and facilitate risk-based decision-making. Relatively little is known about how managers use these tools in the field and when and how they may…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West invites you to join a keynote on wildfire mitigation in the age of COVID-19. This event is the second in a series of talks that adapt information they had originally hoped to cover in their March Workshop on Wildfire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Suzuki, Manzello
Large outdoor fires are one of the prominent fire problems in the world. Spot fires, caused by firebrands, are known as a key mechanism of rapid fire spread. Firebrands ignite unburned fuels far ahead of the fire front. In large outdoor fires, firebrands are thought to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dhall, Dhasade, V.K, Kulkarni
Natural disastrous events are part and parcel of our times and do occur when we least expect it to strike us. Disasters which take place in the vicinity of human livelihood due to natural causes, such as forest fires, tsunami, earthquakes, floods, storms etc., the consequence or…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Wooster, He, Zhang
The Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) now operates concurrently onboard the European Sentinel-3A and 3B satellites. Its observations are expected ultimately to become the main global source of active fire (AF) detections and fire radiative power (FRP)…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coop, Parks, Stevens-Rumann, Crausbay, Higuera, Hurteau, Tepley, Whitman, Assal, Collins, Davis, Dobrowski, Falk, Fornwalt, Fulé, Harvey, Kane, Littlefield, Margolis, North, Parisien, Prichard, Rodman
Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience. Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed sources, warmer and drier postfire climate, or short-interval reburning. A potential outcome of the loss of…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Wonkka, Wedin, Twidwell
Wildfire activity has surged in North America’s temperate grassland biome. Like many biomes, this system has undergone drastic land-use change over the last century; however, how various land-use types contribute to wildfire patterns in grassland systems is unclear. We determine…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schleeweis, Moisen, Schroeder, Toney, Freeman, Goward, Huang, Dungan
National monitoring of forestlands and the processes causing canopy cover loss, be they abrupt or gradual, partial or stand clearing, temporary (disturbance) or persisting (deforestation), are necessary at fine scales to inform management, science and policy. This study utilizes…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kganyago, Shikwambana
This study analysed the characteristics of the recent (2018-2019) wildfires that occurred in the USA, Brazil, and Australia using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) active fires (AF), fire radiative power (FRP, MW) and burned area (BA) products. Meteorological…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Inglis, Vukomanovic
Fire management in protected areas faces mounting obstacles as climate change alters disturbance regimes, resources are diverted to fighting wildfires, and more people live along the boundaries of parks. Evidence-based prescribed fire management and improved communication with…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Henderson
As we enter the wildfire season in the northern hemisphere, the potential for a dangerous interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and smoke pollution should be recognized and acknowledged. This is challenging because the public health threat of COVID-19 is immediate and clear, whereas…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Cascio, Nootz
This webinar from the APHA Center for Climate, Health and Equity discussed wildfire smoke and its public health impacts with a focus on health equity. Presenters:
Described the public health impacts of wildfire smoke.
Identified the ways in which climate change and health equity…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Wilmore
The Drought Code (DC) is a moisture code of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System underlain by a hydrological water balance model in which drying occurs in a negative exponential pattern with a relatively long timelag. The model derives from measurements from an…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Wotton, Woolford, Martell, Flannigan
Spring fire activity has increased in parts of Canada, particularly in the west, prompting fire managers to seek indicators of potential activity before the fire season starts. The overwintering adjustment of the Canadian Fire Weather Index System’s Drought Code (DC) is a method…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
The Drought Code (DC) was developed as part of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in the early 1970s to represent a deep column of soil that dries relatively slowly. Unlike most other fire danger indices or codes that operate on gravimetric moisture content and use…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES