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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Zhang, Qu, Liu, Hao, Huang, Zhan
The detection and mapping of burned areas from wildland fires is one of the most important approaches for evaluating the impacts of fire events. In this study, a novel burned area detection algorithm for rapid response applications using Moderate Resolution Imaging…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yang, Tian, Tao, Ren, Kush, Liu, Wang
Fire is a critical component of the Earth system, and substantially influences land surface, climate change, and ecosystem dynamics. To accurately predict the fire regimes in the 21st century, it is essential to understand the historical fire patterns and recognize the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ziel, Wolken, St. Clair, Henderson
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: Document
Source: FRAMES
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: FRAMES
Keane, McKenzie, Falk, Smithwick, Miller, Kellogg
The prospect of rapidly changing climates over the next century calls for methods to predict their effects on myriad, interactive ecosystem processes. Spatially explicit models that simulate ecosystem dynamics at fine (plant, stand) to coarse (regional, global) scales are…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship, Frid, Smith
Reference ecological conditions offer important context for land managers as they assess the condition of their landscapes and provide benchmarks for desired future conditions. State-and-transition simulation models (STSMs) are commonly used to estimate reference conditions that…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Schlemme, Murray, Unsworth
Little research has focused on the economic impact associated with climate-change induced wildland fire on natural ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. We examine changes in wildland fire patterns based on the U.S. Forest Service's MC1 dynamic global vegetation…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kremens, Dickinson
We have simulated the radiant emission spectra from wildland fires such as would be observed at a scale encompassing the pre-frontal fuel bed, the flaming front and the zone of post-frontal combustion and cooling. For these simulations, we developed a 'mixed-pixel' model where…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexeyev, Euskirchen, Cherry, Busey
The goal of this study was to assess the importance of the 2007 sea ice retreat for hydrologic conditions on the Alaskan North Slope, and how this may have influenced the outbreak of tundra fires in this region. This study concentrates on two years, 2007 and 1996, with different…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blanco, Dubois, Littlejohn, Flanders, Robinson, Moshofsky, Welham
Many rural communities in British Columbia (western Canada) are at risk from wildfire. This risk will increase over time as a result of climate change because of higher average temperatures, longer growing seasons, and more intense droughts. On the other hand, these communities…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chung
Fuel treatments have been widely used as an effective fire management tool to mitigate catastrophic wildland fire risk in forested landscapes. Fire research efforts of the last two decades have significantly advanced fire behavior modeling and fuel treatment effects analysis,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pacheco, Claro, Fernandes, de Neufville, Oliveira, Borges, Rodrigues
Wildfire management has been struggling in recent years with escalating devastation, expenditures, and complexity. Given the copious factors involved and the complexity of their interactions, uncertainty in the outcomes is a prominent feature of wildfire management strategies,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt, Miller
Eric Miller, BLM Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist, assists with a lot of prescribed burns on military training ranges in Alaska where the primary fuel is standing dead grass (photo) and this question was often on his mind. He found that existing fine dead fuel moisture tables…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
An, Gan, Cho
This study examines the statistical association of wildfire risk with climatic conditions and non-climate variables in 48 continental US states. Because the response variable “wildfire risk” is a fractional variable bounded between zero and one, we use a non-linear panel data…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zhao, Tang, Xu
The importance of flame detection cannot be ignored in a wildfire video surveillance system due to disturbance of heavy fog and challenging of smoke detection. In this paper a novel method for hierarchical detection of wildfire flame video is presented. Specifically, wildfire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Choobineh, Ansari, Mohagheghi
Wildfires are common in many forest and grassland ecosystems. Power transmission lines are vulnerable to wildfires in their vicinity, mainly due to increased conductor temperatures as a result of heat released by the fire. This may damage the conductor and lead to violation of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, O'Neill
Presentation outlining recent advances in the development of smoke modeling. This included a brief discussion of the effectiveness of different smoke model approaches and some examples from the 2014 wildfire season using BlueSky Framework.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Woodall, Coulston, Domke, Walters, Wear, Smith, Andersen, Clough, Cohen, Griffith, Hagen, Hanou, Nichols, Perry, Russell, Westfall, Wilson
As a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United States annually prepares an inventory of carbon that has been emitted and sequestered among sectors (e.g., energy, agriculture, and forests). For many years, the United States developed an…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
Presentation by Scott Rupp at the Alaska Interagency Fall Fire Review, October 14, 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Perera
Fire is a natural disturbance that is nearly ubiquitous in terrestrial ecosystems. The capacity to burn exists virtually wherever vegetation grows. In some forested landscapes, fire is a principal driver of rapid ecosystem change, resetting succession (McKenzie et al. 1996a) and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lahm
Narrated presentation describing the Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program and its capabilities.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
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
Mölders, Butwin, Madden, Tran, Sassen, Kramm
Evaluated Weather Research and Forecasting model inline with chemistry (WRF/Chem) simulations of the 2009 Crazy Mountain Complex wildfire in Interior Alaska served as a testbed for typical Alaska wildfire-smoke conditions. A virtual unmanned air vehicle (UAV) sampled…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Madden, Mölders, Sassen
This feasibility study examined whether total backscatter and depolarization measurements from Cloud Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) in combination with sparse surface meteorological data and other information permitted qualitative…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dennison, Fryer, Campbell, Cova, Butler
Safety zones are designated areas that reduce firefighter heat exposure to tolerable levels by providing separation between personnel and fuels. Along with Lookouts, Communications, and Escape routes, Safety zones are a component of the 'LCES' procedures for reducing risk of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS