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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Brown, Jorgenson, Douglas, Romanovsky, Kielland, Hiemstra, Euskirchen, Ruess
We examined the effects of fire disturbance on permafrost degradation and thaw settlement across a series of wildfires (from ~1930 to 2010) in the forested areas of collapse-scar bog complexes in the Tanana Flats lowland of interior Alaska. Field measurements were combined with…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yue, Mickley, Logan, Hudman, Val Martin, Yantosca
We estimate future area burned in the Alaskan and Canadian forest by the mid-century (2046–2065) based on the simulated meteorology from 13 climate models under the A1B scenario. We develop ecoregion-dependent regressions using observed relationships between annual total area…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calef, Varvak, McGuire, Chapin, Reinhold
The Alaskan boreal forest is characterized by frequent extensive wildfires whose spatial extent has been mapped for the past 70 years. Simple predictions based on this record indicate that area burned will increase as a response to climate warming in Alaska. However, two…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vose
The pace of environmental and socioeconomic change over the past 100 years has been rapid. New stressors such as air pollution, invasive species, changes in fire regimes, and land use change have shaped the structure and function of most forest ecosystems, including eastern oak…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Anaya
Convective instability can influence the behaviour of large wildfires. Because wildfires modify the temperature and moisture of air in their plumes, instability calculations using ambient conditions may not accurately represent convective potential for some fire plumes. This…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rogers, Soja, Goulden, Randerson
Wildfires are common in boreal forests around the globe and strongly influence ecosystem processes. However, North American forests support more high-intensity crown fires than Eurasia, where lower-intensity surface fires are common. These two types of fire can result in…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turetsky, Benscoter, Page, Rein, Van der Werf, Watts
Globally, the amount of carbon stored in peats exceeds that stored in vegetation and is similar in size to the current atmospheric carbon pool. Fire is a threat to many peat-rich biomes and has the potential to disturb these carbon stocks. Peat fires are dominated by smouldering…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tang, Zhong, Luo, Bian, Heilman, Winkler
Climate change is expected to alter the frequency and severity of atmospheric conditions conducive for wildfires. In this study, we assess potential changes in fire weather conditions for the contiguous United States using the Haines Index (HI), a fire weather index that has…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hantson, Pueyo, Chuvieco
Aim: In order to understand fire's impacts on vegetation dynamics, it is crucial that the distribution of fire sizes be known. We approached this distribution using a power-law distribution, which derives from self-organized criticality theory (SOC). We compute the global…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pausas
There is increasing evidence that alternative stable vegetation types exist for a given climate that are maintained by distinct fire regimes. Paritsis et al. (2014, this issue) provide an example in a temperate ecosystem. Here I briefly review cases of bi-stability in various…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jenkins
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Val Martin, Pierce, Heald
In the United States, wildfires burn millions of acres every year, releasing large amounts of gases and particles to the atmosphere.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heilman, Tang, Luo, Zhong, Winkler, Bian
Occurrences of large and sometimes extreme and erratic wildfires in the United States in recent years have raised speculation about what projected future climate conditions might mean for future wildfire activity and fire weather in different regions of the United States. This…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
Climate controls the magnitude, duration, and frequency of weather conditions associated with extreme fire behavior. In a warming climate, we are experiencing earlier snowmelt, longer fire seasons, and greater incidence of drought. We expect these trends to increase.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Larkin, Abatzoglou, Potter, Steel, Stocks
Mega-fire events, in which large high-intensity fires propagate over extended periods, can cause both immense damage to the local environment and catastrophic air quality impacts to cities and towns downwind. The extensive 2010 fires in western Russia are only the most recent…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mann
As part of my dissertation, I propose to study the interactions between climate change, wildland fires, and post-fire permafrost thaw over the last 1,000 years (permafrost; permanently frozen ground occurring in boreal regions). The last 1,000 years has seen sizable climate…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rogers
The degree and manner in which different fires affect climate is a complete unknown, but is expected to vary substantially and may in fact represent a currently untapped climate mitigation service. In this webinar, Rogers will provide background on these issues, and describe his…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Marlon
Dr. Jenn Marlon of Yale University compares her Western paleo charcoal and pollen data with her sites in Massachussets.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
Carbon cycles through forested ecosystems, but climate change will increase disturbance in many of these ecosystems. Many U.S. forests currently act as carbon sinks, but increased disturbance may alter this dynamic. Management responses could include focusing on rapid…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Climate change is to blame for many destructive natural phenomena. But Mark Finney, a research forester with the US Forest Service, says that climate change isn't the cause for a seeming increase of fires around the western United States. Finney says that weather, even a dry…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Current and future risks posed by wildfires are key elements in decisions about management of those fires. Carrying evaluations of that risk more than a few days into the future requires stochastic approaches that depend on the climatology of environmental conditions that favor…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Randi Jandt talked about the evolution of Alaska firefighting practices (field and management)over the past 50 years. We are starting to be aware of the changes in climate and in Alaska forests: is the wildfire "problem" the same one we faced a half-century ago? Have our…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Yang, Tian, Tao, Ren, Pan, Liu, Wang
Fire frequency, extent, and size exhibit a strong linkage with climate conditions and play a vital role in the climate system. Previous studies have shown that the frequency of large fires in the western United States increased significantly since the mid-1980s due to climate…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larouche, Abbott, Bowden, Jones
In the Alaskan Arctic, rapid climate change is increasing the frequency of disturbance including wildfire and permafrost collapse. These pulse disturbances may influence the delivery of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to aquatic ecosystems, however the magnitude of these effects…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mills, Jones, Carney, St. Juliana, Ready, Crimmins, Martinich, Shouse, DeAngelo, Monier
This paper develops and applies methods to quantify and monetize projected impacts on terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage and areas burned by wildfires in the contiguous United States under scenarios with and without global greenhouse gas mitigation. The MC1 dynamic global…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS