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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ziel, Bieniek, Bhatt, Strader, Rupp, York
Research Highlights: Flammability of wildland fuels is a key factor influencing risk-based decisions related to preparedness, response, and safety in Alaska. However, without effective measures of current and expected flammability, the expected likelihood of active and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tang, Liu, Chen, Hupy, Yang
Unmanned Aerial Systems, hereafter referred to as UAS, are of great use in hazard events such as wildfire due to their ability to provide high-resolution video imagery over areas deemed too dangerous for manned aircraft and ground crews. This aerial perspective allows for…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McLauchlan, Higuera, Miesel, Rogers, Schweitzer, Shuman, Tepley, Varner, Veblen, Adalsteinsson, Balch, Batllori, Bigio, Brando, Cattau, Chipman, Coen, Crandall, Daniels, Enright, Gross, Harvey, Hatten, Hermann, Hewitt, Kobziar, Landesmann, Loranty, Maezumi, Mearns, Moritz, Myers, Pausas, Pellegrini, Platt, Roozeboom, Safford, Santos, Scheller, Sherriff, Smith, Smith, Watts
1. Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits, population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling, and ecosystem function. It also presents a rapidly growing societal challenge, due to both…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richter, Rein
Pyrolysis is a key process in all stages of wood burning from ignition to extinction. Understanding each stage is crucial to tackle wildfires and assess the fire safety of timber buildings. A model of appropriate complexity of wood pyrolysis and oxidation is missing, which…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferreira, Vega-Oliveros, Zhao, Cardoso, Macau
Fire activity has a huge impact on human lives. Different models have been proposed to predict fire activity, which can be classified into global and regional ones. Global fire models focus on longer timescale simulations and can be very complex. Regional fire models concentrate…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaur, Sood
Wildfires are exorbitantly cataclysmic disasters that lead to the destruction of forest cover, wildlife, land resources, human assets, reduced soil fertility and global warming. Every year wildfires wreck havoc across the globe. Therefore, there is a need of an efficient and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drury
Background: Fire managers tasked with assessing the hazard and risk of wildfire in Alaska, USA, tend to have more confidence in fire behavior prediction modeling systems developed in Canada than similar systems developed in the US. In 1992, Canadian fire behavior systems were…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frangieh, Accary, Morvan, Meradji, Bessonov
The 3D structure of a fire front propagating through a homogeneous porous solid-fuel layer was studied numerically at laboratory and field scales. At laboratory scale, wind-tunnel fires propagating through laser-cut cardboard fuel were numerically reproduced, while at field…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manzello, Suzuki, Gollner, Fernandez-Pello
Large outdoor fires are an increasing danger to the built environment. Wildfires that spread into communities, labeled as Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires, are an example of large outdoor fires. Other examples of large outdoor fires are urban fires including those that may…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The NWCG Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed Fire contains information on prescribed fire smoke management techniques, air quality regulations, smoke monitoring, modeling, communication, public perception of prescribed fire and smoke, climate change, practical meteorological…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Brown, Larkin
This project will develop and prioritize the observations needed to perform this task, bring teams of modelers and observational specialists in various disciplines on board under separate funding, and coordinate these teams to create and validate a detailed study plan, including…
Year: 2020
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES