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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Potter
Background: Previous work by the author and others has examined weather associated with growth of exceptionally large fires (‘Fires of Unusual Size’, or FOUS), looking at three of four factors associated with critical fire weather patterns: antecedent drying, high wind and low…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moody, Stoll, Bailey
Background: Modelling of fire front progression is challenging due to the large range of spatial and temporal scales involved in the interactions between the atmosphere and fire fronts. Further modelling complications arise when heterogeneous terrain and fuels are considered.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Zhu, Yebra, Rüdiger, Webb
Background: Live fuel moisture content (LFMC) is a key environmental indicator used to monitor for high wildfire risk conditions. Many statistical models have been proposed to predict LFMC from remotely sensed data; however, almost all these estimate current LFMC (nowcasting…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berman, Ye, Thapa, Peterson, Hyer, Soja, Gargulinski, Csiszar, Schmidt, Saide
Background: Accurately estimating burned area from satellites is key to improving biomass burning emission models, studying fire evolution and assessing environmental impacts. Previous studies have found that current methods for estimating burned area of fires from satellite…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Badola, Panda, Thompson, Roberts, Waigl, Bhatt
Wildfires, which are a natural part of the boreal ecosystem in Alaska, have recently increased in frequency and size. Environmental conditions (high temperature, low precipitation, and frequent lightning events) are becoming favorable for severe fire events. Fire releases…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Akbari Asanjan, Memarzadeh, Lott, Rieffel, Grabbe
Wildfires are one of the major disasters among many and are responsible for more than 6 million acres burned in the United States alone every year. Accurate, insightful, and timely wildfire detection is needed to help authorities mitigate and prevent further destruction.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Folharini, Vieira, Bento-Gonçalves, Silva, Marques, Novais
Wildfire are increasingly frequent events on a planet undergoing climate change. With more favourable climate conditions for their occurrence, like prolonged periods of drought, the frequency and intensity of these catastrophes continue to increase. Protected areas are important…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ruby, Coker, Sol, Quindry, Montain
Wildland firefighters (WLFFs) are inserted as the front-line defense to minimize loss of natural resources, property, and human life when fires erupt in forested regions of the world. The WLFF occupation is physically demanding as exemplified by total daily energy expenditures…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carr, McDonald, Hanes
Hosted by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, Richard Carr of CFS provided a national-level forecast, Matthew MacDonald provided a regional outlook from a BC perspective, and Chelene Hanes of NRCan presented some of her research on overwintering and initial DC values.
Year: 2023
Type: Media
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
Michel, Johnson, Szeligowski, Ritchie, Sih
Fire regimes are changing dramatically worldwide due to climate change, habitat conversion, and the suppression of Indigenous landscape management. Although there has been extensive work on plant responses to fire, including their adaptations to withstand fire and long-term…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Wang, Lu, Gui, Wan
Soil microorganisms are a fundamental component of ecosystems and mediate biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem productivity. The frequency and extremity of fire weather is expected to increase under global warming; however, postfire soil microorganisms' patterns and trends remain…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Zhang, Huang, Feng, Chen
In this paper, a solution based on an improved particle swarm algorithm is proposed for the path planning problem without a road network in forest fire rescue scenarios. The algorithm adopts an adaptive inertia weight and a dynamically updated learning factor strategy to enhance…
Year: 2023
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
Ma, Hurtt, Tang, Lamb, Lister, Chini, Dubayah, Armston, Campbell, Duncanson, Healey, O'Neil-Dunne, Ott, Poulter, Shen
Forest carbon is a large and uncertain component of the global carbon cycle. An important source of complexity is the spatial heterogeneity of vegetation vertical structure and extent, which results from variations in climate, soils, and disturbances and influences both…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildland Fire Histomap - Learning from the past, preparing for the future. From the USFS Innovation and Organizational Learning Team, this histomap provides overviews and datasets of wildland fire accidents and incidents.
Year: 2023
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Department of Interior (DOI) Office of Wildland Fire and USGS created the Wildfire Hazard and Risk Assessment Clearinghouse to meet the Monitoring, Maintenance, and Treatment Plan requirements under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). It provides an interactive…
Year: 2023
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Freeman, Frescino
Creates sophisticated models of training data and validates the models with an independent test set, cross validation, or Out Of Bag (OOB) predictions on the training data. Create graphs and tables of the model validation results. Applies these models to GIS .img files of…
Year: 2023
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Zhou, Liu, Gu, Wu, Hu, He
The impact of fire on above-ground biomass has significant consequences on soil carbon (C) dynamics, which is essential in predicting the global C budget during the Anthropocene. However, there is considerable spatiotemporal variability in the directions and magnitudes of fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson
Extremes of climate are occurring with ever greater frequency. Wildfires, floods, droughts, and cyclones are having devastating impacts on humans and ecosystems around the world. As this editorial was developed, at least 115 people are known to have died in the recent Maui…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lattimer, Huang, Delichatsios, Levendis, Kochersberger, Manzello, Frank, Jones, Salvador, Delgado, Angelats, Parés, Martín, McAllister, Suzuki
The use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) by the fire service is becoming more common, especially for large outdoor fires where it is difficult to understand the state of the fire conditions or efficiently suppress the fire. The focus of this paper is to discuss the challenges…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Howell, Belmont, McAllister, Finney
Wildfire spread models that couple physical transport and chemical kinetics sometimes simplify or neglect gas-phase pyrolysis product oxidation chemistry. However, empirical evidence suggests that oxygen (O2) is available for gas-phase and solid-phase combustion within the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES