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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Anderson, Heath, Emery, Hicke, Littell, Lucier, Masek, Peterson, Pouyat, Potter, Robertson, Sperry
United States forestland is an important ecosystem type, land cover, land use, and economic resource that is facing several drivers of change including climatic. Because of its significance, forestland was identified through the National Climate Assessment (NCA) as a key sector…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Ban, Nascetti
Sentinel-2 MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) data exhibits the great potential of enhanced spatial and temporal coverage for monitoring biomass burning which could complement other coarse active fire detection products. This paper aims to investigate the use of reflective…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Romps, Seeley, Veraverbeke, Riley, Mekonnen, Randerson
Lightning is an indicator and a driver of climate change. Here, using satellite observations of lightning flash rate and ERA5 reanalysis, we find that the spatial pattern of summer lightning over northern circumpolar regions exhibits a strong positive relationship with the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhao, Zhuang, Shurpali, Köster, Berninger, Pumpanen
Wildfires are a major disturbance to forest carbon (C) balance through both immediate combustion emissions and post-fire ecosystem dynamics. Here we used a process-based biogeochemistry model, the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM), to simulate C budget in Alaska and Canada…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Santoso, Cui, Amin, Christensen, Nugroho, Rein
The application of water, or water mixed with suppressants, to combat wildfires is one of the most common firefighting methods but is rarely studied for smouldering peat wildfire, which is the largest type of fire worldwide in term of fuel consumption. We performed experiments…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pellegrini, Refsland, Averill, Terrer, Staver, Brockway, Caprio, Clatterbuck, Coetsee, Haywood, Hobbie, Hoffmann, Kush, Lewis, Moser, Overby, Patterson, Peay, Reich, Ryan, Sword Sayer, Sharenbroch, Schoennagel, Smith, Stephan, Swanston, Turner, Varner, Jackson
Global change has resulted in chronic shifts in fire regimes. Variability in the sensitivity of tree communities to multi-decadal changes in fire regimes is critical to anticipating shifts in ecosystem structure and function, yet remains poorly understood. Here, we address the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dietenberger, Hasburgh, Yedinak
Fire safety is an important concern in all types of construction. The high level of national concern for fire safety is reflected in limitations and design requirements in building codes. These code requirements and related fire performance data are discussed in the context of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carriger, Thompson, Barron
Wildfire risks and losses have increased over the last 100 years, associated with population expansion, land use and management practices, and global climate change. While there have been extensive efforts at modeling the probability and severity of wildfires, there have been…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fujioka, Weise, Chen, Kim, Kafatos
The Rothermel fire spread model provides the scientific basis for the US National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and several other important fire management applications. This study proposes a new perspective of the model that partitions the reaction intensity function and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Portante, Qiu, Kuiper, Hyde, Gayle, Bynum, Teyber
The National Laboratories showcase their wildfire mitigation capabilities and technologies in this Wildfire Mitigation Webinar Series. Whether it’s a fire created by utility equipment or an oncoming fire that is threatening a utility company’s equipment, the National…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Qiu, Hansard, Kumar, Thakur, Judi, Corbiani, Armijo, Myers
The National Laboratories showcase their wildfire mitigation capabilities and technologies in this Wildfire Mitigation Webinar Series. Whether it’s a fire created by utility equipment or an oncoming fire that is threatening a utility company’s equipment, the National…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wilson, Wang, Fuhr, Duncan, Schurtz, Brown
The National Laboratories showcase their wildfire mitigation capabilities and technologies in this Wildfire Mitigation Webinar Series. Whether it’s a fire created by utility equipment or an oncoming fire that is threatening a utility company’s equipment, the National…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Madani, Parazoo, Kimball, Reichle, Chatterjee, Watts, Saatchi, Liu, Endsley, Tagesson, Rogers, Xu, Wang, Magney, Miller
The increase in wildfire occurrence and severity seen over the past decades in the boreal and Arctic biomes is expected to continue in the future in response to rapid climate change in this region. Recent studies documented positive trends in gross primary productivity (GPP) for…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barreiro, Diaz-Raviña
The ecosystem response to fire is often linked to fire severity and recurrence, with potentially larges consequences on both above- and below-ground processes. Understanding the fire impact has become increasing important in the light of recent changes to disturbance regimes due…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Terzano, Rascio, Allegretta, Porfido, Spagnuolo, Khanghahi, Crecchio, Sakellariadou, Gattullo
In the last years, uncontrolled fires are frequently occurring in forest and agricultural areas as an indirect effect of the rising aridity and global warming or caused by intentional illegal burnings. In addition, controlled burning is still largely used by farmers as an…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Wooster, Polehampton, Yemelyanova, Zhang
The Sentinel-3 satellites each carry the dual-Earth view Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR). SLSTR data from the ‘near nadir’ scan are used to produce a set of global, daily active fire (AF) products similar to those produced from MODIS data. The Sentinel-3 AF…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Muñoz-Rojas, Machado de Lima, Chamizo, Bowker
Changes in climate are expected to alter fire regimes, with critical implications in soils and ecosystems. Biological soil crusts or biocrusts are communities of photosynthetic organisms (cyanobacteria, bryophytes, lichens and/or microalgae), and associated bacteria, archaea,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schultz
This webinar is part of the Colorado Wildfires 2020 Webinar Series hosted by the Colorado State University, the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network and the Forest Stewards Guild.
For the final installment of the Colorado Wildfires 2020 webinar series we are joined by Courtney…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Zhao, Lovreglio, Kuligowski, Nilsson
[from the text] Wildfire is a growing global concern for rural and urban areas [1]. Statistics show that the intensity and negative consequences of wildfire have increased in recent decades creating serious challenges for fire and emergency services, as well as communities in…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Wang, Feng
Recent wildfires in the western United States have led to substantial economic losses and social stresses. There is a great concern that the new climatic state may further increase the intensity, duration, and frequency of wildfires. To examine temporal and spatial features of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cronan
The idea of using sensors to remotely measure things is not new. Aerial photos taken from hot air balloons were first proposed as a tool for mapping streets in the 1850s. In 1941, a US Forest Service ranger developed a technique for mapping fuels with aerial photos. Recent…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Langpap, Wu
Wildfires in the U.S. are growing in extent and severity, causing billions of dollars in damage each year. Wildfire policy has increased its focus on integrating fire suppression with risk mitigation through fuel reduction. In this context incentives to elicit management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Wang, Liu
Wildfire susceptibility is of great importance to the prevention and management of global wildfires. Artificial neural networks (ANNs), particularly multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), have been widely used in wildfire susceptibility. Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have become…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship, Swaty, Hall, Hagen, Pohl, Shlisky, Patton, Frid, Smith
In the context of widespread ecological changes, land managers and policymakers confront the need to prioritize ecosystem restoration and fuel management activities across large areas to sustain ecosystem services. Reference conditions inform prioritization efforts by providing…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hahn, Kuiper, O'Dell, Fischer, Magzamen
Alaskan wildfires have major ecological, social, and economic consequences, but associated health impacts remain unexplored. We estimated cardiorespiratory morbidity associated with wildfire smoke (WFS) fine particulate matter with a diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) in three…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES