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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Boschetti, Roy, Giglio, Huang, Zubkova, Humber
This paper presents a Stage 3 validation of the recently released Collection 6 NASA MCD64A1 500 m global burned area product. The product is validated by comparison with Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) image pairs acquired 16 days apart that were visually interpreted.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wickham, Vose, Peterson
The Nation’s authoritative assessment of climate impacts, the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States (NCA4 Vol. II) was released in November 2018. This presentation will address the impacts of climate change on land cover…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schaefer, Magi
For this study, we characterized the dependence of fire counts (FCs) on soil moisture (SM) at global and sub-global scales using 15 years of remote sensing data. We argue that this mathematical relationship serves as an effective way to predict fire because it is a proxy for the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Humber, Boschetti, Giglio, Justice
We characterize the agreement and disagreement of four publically available burned products (Fire CCI, Copernicus Burnt Area, MODIS MCD45A1, and MODIS MCD64A1) at a finer spatial and temporal scale than previous assessments using a grid of three-dimensional cells defined both in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi
Trends in regional fire cycles for Alaska, 1943-2016, were analyzed by Thomas Paragi, Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Maija Wehmas, Alaska Fire Science Consortium, and David Verbyla, University of Alaska Fairbanks
The methodology/figures/tables, GIS data and Python…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Overall, drought conditions had improved across the Southern Area Geographic Area over the past two years. During the spring of 2015 drought conditions began establishing across Southern Appalachian mountain states and steadily spread and increased in severity through the fall…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York
Presented by: Alison York, Alaska Fire Science Consortium
November 20th, 2019
Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Bridging the Gap: Lessons from the First Ten Years of the JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network. Presented as part of the 8th International Fire Ecology and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Alaska's Fire Environment: Not an Average Place is a compilation of excerpts from the keynote presentation given by Robert "Zeke" Ziel at the Albuquerque location of the 2019 Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference.
Alaska is nearly 18% of USA landmass. Its size is often…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hakes, Salehizadeh, Weston-Dawkes, Gollner
The cause of the majority of structure losses in wildland-urban interface fires is ignition via firebrands, small pieces of burning material generated from burning vegetation and structures. To understand the mechanism of these losses, small-scale experiments designed to capture…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaur, Hüser, Zhang, Gehrke, Kaiser
Active fire observations with satellite instruments exhibit a well-documented increase of the detection threshold with increasing pixel footprint size, i.e., distance from the sub-satellite point. This results in a viewing angle-dependent, negative bias in gridded…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moreno-Ruiz, García-Lázaro, Arbelo, Riaño
Alaska’s boreal region stores large amounts of carbon both in its woodlands and in the grounds that sustain them. Any alteration to the fire system that has naturally regulated the region’s ecology for centuries poses a concern regarding global climate change. Satellite-based…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kumar, Picotte, Peterson
This work presents development of an algorithm to reduce the spatial uncertainty of active fire locations within the 1 km MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS Aqua and Terra) daytime detection footprint. The algorithm is developed using the finer 500 m reflective…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martinuzzi, Allstadt, Pidgeon, Flather, Jolly, Radeloff
Public lands provide many ecosystem services and support diverse plant and animal communities. In order to provide these benefits in the future, land managers and policy makers need information about future climate change and its potential effects. In particular, weather…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bhuiyan, Moseley, Medal, Rashidi, Grala
Reducing the potential damage caused by a wildfire is a problem of significant importance to land and fire managers. Fuel reduction treatment is a well-known method of reducing the risk of fire occurrence and spread on landscapes. However, officials seeking fuel reduction…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Buma, Batllori, Bisbing, Holz, Saunders, Bidlack, Creutzburg, DellaSala, Gregovich, Hennon, Krapek, Moritz, Zaret
The coastal temperate rainforests of South and North America are part of the most biomass dense forest biome on the planet. They are also subject to rapid climatic shifts and, subsequently, new disturbance processes - snow loss‐driven mortality and the emergence of fire in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Filipponi
Satellite data play a major role in supporting knowledge about fire severity by delivering rapid information to map fire-damaged areas in a precise and prompt way. The high availability of free medium-high spatial resolution optical satellite data, offered by the Copernicus…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Long, Zhang, He, Jiao, Tang, Wu, Zhang, Wang, Yin
Heretofore, global Burned Area (BA) products have only been available at coarse spatial resolution, since most of the current global BA products are produced with the help of active fire detection or dense time-series change analysis, which requires very high temporal resolution…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils (CPFC) worked collaboratively to produce the 2018 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report (.pdf). Since 2012, this report has been compiled every three years, and is unique among…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Mouillot, Van der Werf, San Miguel, Tanase, Koutsias, García, Yebra, Padilla, Gitas, Heil, Hawbaker, Giglio
Fire has a diverse range of impacts on Earth's physical and social systems. Accurate and up to date information on areas affected by fire is critical to better understand drivers of fire activity, as well as its relevance for biogeochemical cycles, climate, air quality, and to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gao, Cheng
The damage caused by forest fire to forestry resources and economy is quite serious. As one of the most important characters of early forest fire, smoke is widely used as a signal of forest fire. In this paper, we propose a novel forest fire smoke detection method based on…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sayad, Mousannif, Al Moatassime
Wildfires, whether natural or caused by humans, are considered among the most dangerous and devastating disasters around the world. Their complexity comes from the fact that they are hard to predict, hard to extinguish and cause enormous financial losses. To address this issue,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stamper
With increasing fire season duration and complexities in the fire management environment come opportunities to scale up the application of prescribed fire. In this webinar, we will explore the challenges climate change poses for fire managers, as well as the opportunities…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hess, Cullen, Cobian-Iñiguez, Ramthun, Lenske, Magness, Bolten, Foster, Spruce
Spruce beetle-induced (Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby)) mortality on the Kenai Peninsula has been hypothesized by local ecologists to result in the conversion of forest to grassland and subsequent increased fire danger. This hypothesis stands in contrast to empirical studies in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saha, Scanlon, D'Odorico
Aim: Fire is a globally important disturbance that affects nearly all vegetated biomes. Previous regional studies have suggested that the predictable seasonal pattern of a climatic time series, or seasonality, might aid in the prediction of average fire activity, but it is not…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brotons, Duane
Recent studies have explored the use of simple correlative models to project changes in future burnt areas (BAs) around the globe. However, estimates of future fire danger suffer from the critical shortcoming that feedbacks on climate change effects on vegetation are not…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES