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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yan, Zhu, Wang, Zhang, Luo, Qian, Jiang
This study investigates the impacts of African wildfire aerosols (primary organic carbon, black carbon and sulfate) on the Northern Hemispheric in January. We found that wildfire aerosols emitted from equatorial Africa result in two mid-to-high latitudes atmospheric Rossby wave…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Son, Kim, Wang, Jeong, Woo, Jeong, Lee, Kim, LaPlante, Kwon
The 2015 Paris Agreement led to a number of studies that assessed the impact of the 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C increases in global temperature over preindustrial levels. However, those assessments have not actively investigated the impact of these levels of warming on fire weather. In…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Estimates of temporal-spatial variability of wildfire danger across the Pan-Arctic and extra-tropics
Satellite-based hot-spot analysis for the Pan-Arctic, shows that Asia experiences a greater number of fires compared to North America and Europe. While hot spots are prevalent through the year in Asia, Europe (North America) exhibits marked annual (semi-annual) variability. The…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ludwig, Natali, Mann, Schade, Holmes, Powell, Fiske, Commane
Climate change is causing an intensification in tundra fires across the Arctic, including the unprecedented 2015 fires in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta. The YK Delta contains extensive surface waters (∼33% cover) and significant quantities of organic carbon, much of which is…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moody, Gibbs, Krueger, Mallia, Pardyjak, Kochanski, Bailey, Stoll
A microscale wildfire model, QES-Fire, that dynamically couples the fire front to microscale winds was developed using a simplified physics rate of spread (ROS) model, a kinematic plume-rise model and a mass-consistent wind solver. The model is three-dimensional and couples fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhou, Simeoni
In forest fires, the fire plume can heat tree crowns and cause the mortality of live vegetation, even though the surface fire spread is of low burning intensity. A lot of empirical or semi-empirical correlations have been built to link the fire intensity and flame height to the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Healey, Yang
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station
Forest managers increasingly require statistically grounded estimates of forest carbon storage at the resolution of individual ownerships (a few thousand acres). Carbon…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Noble, Ernstrom
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station
IFTDSS is becoming a go to tool for fuels planning across interagency partners. With its all access web-based approach, IFTDSS makes fuels management planning accessible…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stonesifer
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station
Aircraft are important fire management tools, but their use can bring substantial costs and associated risks. We developed the Aviation Use Summary (AUS), which is a…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ghali, Akhloufi, Souidene Mseddi
Wildfires are a worldwide natural disaster causing important economic damages and loss of lives. Experts predict that wildfires will increase in the coming years mainly due to climate change. Early detection and prediction of fire spread can help reduce affected areas and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huang, Mote, Simpson
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory will hold a virtual two-part panel discussion on the state-of-the-science regarding climate and wildland fire during the upcoming fall semester of the recurring Fire Lab…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Becker, Keefe
Mobile technologies are rapidly advancing the field of forest operations and providing opportunities to quantify management tasks in new ways through increased digitalization. For instance, devices equipped with global navigation satellite system and radio frequency transmission…
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
Nimmo, Andersen, Archibald, Boer, Brotons, Parr, Tingley
[from the text] Fire is one of Earth's most potent agents of ecological change. This Special Issue comes in the wake of a series of extreme wildfires across the world, from the Amazon, to Siberia, California, Portugal, South Africa and eastern Australia (Duane et al., 2021).…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanan, Kennedy, Ren, Johnson, Smith
Climate change has lengthened wildfire seasons and transformed fire regimes throughout the world. Thus, capturing fuel and fire dynamics is critical for projecting Earth system processes in warmer and drier future. Recent advances in fire regime modeling have linked land surface…
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
Littell, Trainor
Sarah Trainor & Jeremy Littell present at the 2021 Association for Fire Ecology Conference special session: The Nexus of Climate Change and Fire: Taking Science to Action
Addressing the unprecedented challenges of climate change, wildland fire, and human land use requires…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Khan, Ghassemi
Growing wildfire-related transmission and distribution line outages have become a severe problem and a main concern for some utilities. This manuscript aims to integrate wildfire risk with the vulnerability of overhead lines through a probabilistic approach where a combined line…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
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
Le, Kim, Bae
Wildfires alter the composition and structure of ecosystems and result in huge economic costs. While future fires and ecosystems recovery might become increasingly challenging to manage under warming environment, further understanding of the main drivers of wildfires is…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York, Bhatt, Gargulinski, Grabinski, Jain, Soja, Thoman, Ziel
Despite the low annual temperatures and short growing seasons that are characteristic of high northern latitudes (HNL), wildland fire is the dominant ecological disturbance within the region's boreal forest, the world's largest terrestrial biome. The boreal forest, also known as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Wotton, McFayden, Jurko
The Fire Weather Index (FWI) System codes and indices are commonly communicated and interpreted using a classification system (i.e., Low, Moderate, High, Extreme) by fire management agencies. Adjective classes were developed provincially shortly after the FWI System was…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Douglas, Jorgenson, Genet, Marcot, Nelsen
Climate change and intensification of disturbance regimes are increasing the vulnerability of interior Alaska Department of Defense (DoD) training ranges to widespread land cover and hydrologic changes. This is expected to have profound impacts on wildlife habitats, conservation…
Year: 2022
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
Foster, Shuman, Rogers, Walker, Mack, Bourgeau-Chavez, Veraverbeke, Goetz
Forest characteristics, structure, and dynamics within the North American boreal region are heavily influenced by wildfire intensity, severity, and frequency. Increasing temperatures are likely to result in drier conditions and longer fire seasons, potentially leading to more…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES