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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Barrett, Loboda, McGuire, Genet, Hoy, Kasischke
Wildfire, a dominant disturbance in boreal forests, is highly variable in occurrence and behavior at multiple spatiotemporal scales. New data sets provide more detailed spatial and temporal observations of active fires and the post-burn environment in Alaska. In this study, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riley, Loehman
Climate changes are expected to increase fire frequency, fire season length, and cumulative area burned in the western United States. We focus on the potential impact of mid-21st-century climate changes on annual burn probability, fire season length, and large fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAllister, Finney
Wood cribs are often used as ignition sources for room fire tests. A wood crib may also apply to studies of burning rate in wildland fires, because wildland fuel beds are porous and three dimensional. A unique aspect of wildland fires is the ubiquitous presence of wind. However…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This website contains links to podcasts produced by the Wildland Fires Lessons Learned Center.
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
National Weather Service Incident Meteorologists (IMET) provide onsite, tactical weather support for wildland fires and other incidents.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This site is the National Weather Service interface to requesting, filling, and monitoring spot forecasts issued by the Forecast Offices and National Centers.
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
This is a brief tutorial for the new National Spot Forecast Page. If you have any questions about this new page, be sure to contact your local National Weather Service forecast office.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Healthy forests are vital to our future, and consistent, long-term monitoring of forest health indicators is necessary to identify forest resources deteriorating across large regions. The Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program of the USDA Forest Service, with cooperating…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Aponte, de Groot, Wotton
The papers in this section focus on three main themes that emerged during the sessions. First, fire regimes are changing as a result of changes in climate conditions. Second, changes in fire regimes may have significant ecoloogical consequences because the newly emerged regimes…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Barnes
Tundra Fires in a Changing Climate presented by Jennifer Barnes of the National Park Service. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Littell, Peterson, Riley, Liu, Luce
The historical and presettlement relationships between drought and wildfire are well documented in North America, with forest fire occurrence and area clearly increasing in response to drought. There is also evidence that drought interacts with other controls (forest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vejmelka, Kochanski, Mandel
Fuel moisture has a major influence on the behaviour of wildland fires and is an important underlying factor in fire risk assessment. We propose a method to assimilate dead fuel moisture content (FMC) observations from remote automated weather stations (RAWS) into a time lag…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hunter
An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Driscoll, Luber
The environmental effects of climate change are likely having negative impacts on the health of the 13.1 million residents of the circumpolar north. In this chapter, we describe an observational epidemiologic study that collected surveillance data on local environmental changes…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan
This webinar included an overview of the various forecasts available and the parameters used by the National Weather Service, as well as discussion of some of the more critical parameters.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Werth, Potter, Alexander, Cruz, Clements, Finney, Forthofer, Goodrick, Hoffman, Jolly, McAllister, Ottmar, Parsons
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s definition of extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yue, Ciais, Zhu, Wang, Peng, Piao
Boreal fires have immediate effects on regional carbon budgets by emitting CO2 into the atmosphere at the time of burning, but they also have legacy effects by initiating a long-term carbon sink during post-fire vegetation recovery. Quantifying these different effects on the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS