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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Allen, Wang
When tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific transition into midlatitude cyclones, it often perturbs the jet stream, resulting in amplified flow conditions in the north Pacific and various weather extremes in North America. Thus far, however, the climatological impacts of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakober, Brown, Wall
The National Weather Service is responsible for alerting wildland fire management of meteorological conditions that create an environment conducive for extreme fire behavior. This is communicated via Red Flag Warnings (RFWs), which presently lack a national standardized…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Justino, Bromwich, Wang, Althoff, Schumacher, Silva
Studies and observations have pointed out that recent wildfires have been more severe and burned area is increasing in tropical regions. The current study aims at investigating the influence of oceanic climate modes and their teleconnection on global fire danger and trends in…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Jones, Baughman, Jandt, Jenkins, Yokel
Few fires are known to have burned the tundra of the Arctic Slope north of the Brooks Range in Alaska, USA. A total of 90 fires between 1969 and 2022 are known. Because fire has been rare, old burns can be detected by the traces of thermokarst and distinct vegetation they leave…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilkinson, Vachula
Relationships between rates of change in Earth-surface systems and their measurement durations suggest that rates may be critically dependent on durations of observation. Studies relating rates and durations of change have appeared increasingly over the past 50 years, with many…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This IFTDSS (Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System) course is available anytime on the Wildland Fire Learning Portal. You can enroll yourself in this on-demand online course once you enter the Wildland Fire Learning Portal. Select "How to Use IFTDSS for Rx Burn…
Year: 2023
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Ghodrat, Shakeriaski, Fanaee, Simeoni
Wildfires are complex phenomena, both in time and space, in ecosystems. The ability to understand wildfire dynamics and to predict the behaviour of the propagating fire is essential and at the same time a challenging practice. A common approach to investigate and predict such…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shi, Touge
Most of studies on change-point at a regional or global scale have only examined a single hydrometeorological variable and have been unable to identify any underlying explanations. In this study, we identified change-points and long-term trends of six wildfire-related variables…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoseph, Hoy, Elder, Ludwig, Thompson, Miller
Rapid warming in Arctic tundra may lead to drier soils in summer and greater lightning ignition rates, likely culminating in enhanced wildfire risk. Increased wildfire frequency and intensity leads to greater conversion of permafrost carbon to greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masa, Kintzios, Vasileiou, Meditskos, Vrochidis, Kompatsiaris
Forest fires can have devastating effects on the environment, communities, individuals, economy, and climate change in many countries. During a forest fire crisis, massive amounts of data, such as weather patterns and soil conditions, become available. Efficient management,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt, See
Advancing Wildfire Preparedness and Planning takes an in-depth look at the dynamic factors that are impacting wildfire occurrence for the most populated geographic area in the 49th State of Alaska, the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA). The length and severity of recent fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mankame, Shotorban
Spot fires created by wind–carrying firebrands are common in wildland–urban interface (WUI) fires. Firebrand deposition over cubic blocks in tandem and parallel arrangements representing simplified nearby small structures in WUI was studied. The flow turbulence was modeled by …
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jambrina-Enríquez, Rodríguez de Vera, Davara, Herrera-Herrera, Mallol
Different types of plant tissues and resin can account for the wax lipids found in sedimentary contexts and archaeological samples. Consequently, there is increasing research to characterize the fatty acid carbon isotope ratios of different plant anatomical parts and their plant…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edalati-nejad, Ghodrat, Sharples
Background: Wildfires can have detrimental impacts on the environment and urban structures when they spread from wildland areas.
Aims: In this work, a numerical study was performed to investigate the effect of downslope terrain on fire-induced flows in the presence of a building…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Misios, Chrysanthou, Tsigaridis, Amiridis
The most extreme manifestation of a fire–weather interaction is the formation of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) thunderstorms, triggered by super-heated updrafts, which can eject smoke at altitudes exceeding 20 Km. In this study, we investigated climate-related impacts from the most…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smail, Martin
A practitioner-oriented overview of LANDFIRE with a focus on fuels and how they react to modeling techniques. The subject area of discussion is the 2022 Cooks Peak fire located in northern New Mexico. This webinar is technical in its application and may offer insights for both…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fan, Miao, Zscheischler, Slater, Wu, Chai, AghaKouchak
Fire weather compounded by extremely hot and dry conditions often severely impacts society and ecosystems. To mitigate and better adapt to these compound fire weather (CFW) events, a better understanding of recent and future CFW trends is needed. Here we show that in the period…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lonergan
Wildfires have become more destructive over recent decades with climate change, so understanding how fire regimes will change with further climate change is critical for effective fire management practices. Paleofire records provide insight into how fire regimes have responded…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, McMillan
This report summarizes the National Park Service Interior Region 11 (Alaska) Fire Ecology Program activities, monitoring and research results, and provides a list of outreach/publications completed in 2022. It features studies in Denali National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-St…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Iwata, Ueyama, Harazono, Kobayashi, Ikawa, Busey, Iwahana, Euskirchen
Background: The Drought Code (DC) of the Canadian Fire Weather Index System (CFWIS) has been intuitively regarded by fire managers in Alaska, USA, as poorly representing the moisture content in the forest floor in lowland taiga forests on permafrost soils.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Goldberg, Wilcox, Buckley, Parr, Linck, Fountain, Schwartz
Fire regimes are a major agent of evolution in terrestrial animals. Changing fire regimes and the capacity for rapid evolution in wild animal populations suggests the potential for rapid, fire-driven adaptive animal evolution in the Pyrocene. Fire drives multiple modes of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gilletly, Jackson, Staid
There are growing needs to understand how extreme weather events impact the electrical grid. Renewable energy sources such as solar photovoltaics are expanding in use to help sustainably meet electricity demands. Wildfires and, notably, the widespread smoke resulting from them,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The LANDFIRE (LF) 2022 Update represents another step in moving towards an annual update. This update is the first time in LANDFIRE history in which disturbances from the year before are represented in current year products.
LF 2022 includes adjustments to vegetation and fuels…
Year: 2023
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES