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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Creasy, Tinkham, Hoffman, Vogeler
Characterization of forest structure is important for management-related decision making, monitoring, and adaptive management. Increasingly, observations of forest structure are needed at both finer resolutions and across greater extents to support spatially explicit management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pennick McIver, Cook, Becker
The number and size of wildfires in the western United States have increased dramatically in the last 30 years. The rising cost of wildfire suppression has become a significant concern for all levels of government, although most attention has been focused on the federal level.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Patoulias, Kallitsis, Posner, Pandis
The changes in the concentration and composition of biomass-burning organic aerosol (OA) downwind of a major wildfire are simulated using the one-dimensional Lagrangian chemical transport model PMCAMx-Trj. A base case scenario is developed based on realistic fire-plume…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate. The editors and authors highlight broad…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sanchez, Eagleston, Anker, Jenkins, Gunda
Water resources are greatly impacted by natural disasters, but very little is known about how these issues are portrayed in the media across different types of disasters. Using a corpus of over 600 thousand local newspaper articles, this research evaluates whether the amount of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, York
Although conflagrations in lower latitudes get more attention, wildfires across the high north are affecting the planet even more.
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bray, Battye, Aneja, Schlesinger
Emissions of ammonia (NH3), oxides of nitrogen (NOx; NO +NO2), and nitrous oxide (N2O) from biomass burning were quantified on a global scale for 2001 to 2015. On average biomass burning emissions at a global scale over the period were as follows: 4.53 ± 0.51 Tg NH3 year−1, 14.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yue, Dong, Zhao, Ye
Massive Geo-tagged social media data provide new opportunities for disaster risk assessment, prevention, and management. This article presents a proof of concept for assessing wildfire risk using Geo-tagged social media data, by taking wildfire risk as a function of wildfire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gurney, Christison, Stenersen, Dumke
Heat accumulation from wearing personal protective equipment can result in the development of heat-related illnesses. This study aimed to investigate factors of heat stress with and without a US standard issue wildland firefighter helmet. Ten male subjects finished a 90-min…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McNamara, Mell
The advancement of three-dimensional, time-dependent fire behaviour models is best supported by publicly available, co-located, synchronised, quality-assured measures of pre-fire, active fire and post-fire conditions (i.e. integrated datasets). Currently, there is a lack of such…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goodwin, Zald, North, Hurteau
Wildfire is capable of rapidly releasing the energy stored in forests, with the amount of water in live and dead biomass acting as a regulator on the amount and rate of energy release. Here we used temperature and fuel moisture data to examine climate-driven changes in fuel…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mann, Gaglioti, Jones, Miller
This project concerned tundra fires in Alaska and how climate-driven changes in fire regimes could impact Alaska’s Arctic ecosystems. We used remote sensing, dendrochronology, field vegetation surveys, and paleoclimate reconstructions to accomplish three goals: 1) to identify…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Zhang, Li, Cochrane, Ciren
Smoke from fires significantly influences climate, weather, and human health. Fire smoke is traditionally detected using an aerosol index calculated from spectral contrast changes. However, such methods usually miss thin smoke plumes. It also remains challenging to accurately…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toman, Wilson, Jolly, Olsen
Fire weather tools, such as the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), have been developed to support wildland fire management decisions. However, little is known about how these tools are used in practice, the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bayham, Belval, Thompson
Motivation. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 just as the southwestern region begins to see increased fire activity. The project PIs had been collaborating on other wildfire projects but also had expertise in infectious disease…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hood, Falk, Nie
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (hereafter: Cohesive Strategy) mandates the restoration and maintenance of landscapes, with the goal that “landscapes across all jurisdictions are resilient to fire-related disturbances in accordance with management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Lara, Jones, Frost, Hu
Disruptive permafrost thaw known as thermokarst may propel landscape reorganization and exacerbate high-latitude carbon release. However, current understanding of the thermokarst process remains limited. Here we used a remote sensing dataset unprecedented in spatiotemporal…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiggins, Anderson, Brown, Campuzano-Jost, Chen, Crawford, Crosbie, Dibb, DiGangi, Diskin, Fenn, Gallo, Gargulinski, Guo, Hair, Halliday, Ichoku, Jimenez, Jordan, Katich, Nowak, Perring, Robinson, Sanchez, Schueneman, Schwarz, Shingler, Shook, Soja, Stockwell, Thornhill, Travis, Warneke, Winstead, Ziemba, Moore
Accurate fire emissions inventories are crucial to predict the impacts of wildland fires on air quality and atmospheric composition. Two traditional approaches are widely used to calculate fire emissions: a satellite-based top-down approach and a fuels-based bottom-up approach.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harrison, Prentice, Bloomfield, Dong, Forkel, Forrest, Ningthoujam, Pellegrini, Shen, Baudena, Cardoso, Huss, Joshi, Oliveras, Pausas, Simpson
Recent extreme wildfire seasons in several regions have been associated with exceptionally hot, dry conditions, made more probable by climate change. Much research has focused on extreme fire weather and its drivers, but natural wildfire regimes – and their interactions with…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhao, Wang, Hou, Li, Tian, Chan, Ciais, Yu, Yue
Wildfire is the most prevalent natural disturbance in the North American boreal forest (NABF) and can cause post-fire land surface temperature change (ΔTfire) through biophysical processes. Fire regimes, such as fire severity, fire intensity and percentage of burned area (PBA),…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palm, Peng, Hall, Ullmann, Campos, Weinheimer, Montzka, Tyndall, Permar, Hu, Flocke, Fischer, Thornton
Wildfire emissions affect downwind air quality and human health. Predictions of these impacts using models are limited by uncertainties in emissions and chemical evolution of smoke plumes. Using high-time-resolution aircraft measurements, we illustrate spatial variations that…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuhn-Régnier, Voulgarakis, Nowack, Forkel, Prentice, Harrison
The seasonal and longer-term dynamics of fuel accumulation affect fire seasonality and the occurrence of extreme wildfires. Failure to account for their influence may help to explain why state-of-the-art fire models do not simulate the length and timing of the fire season or…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp, Wilson, Toman, Jolly
Background: Weather plays an integral role in fire management due to the direct and indirect effects it has on fire behavior. However, fire managers may not use all information available to them during the decision-making process, instead utilizing mental shortcuts that can bias…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, McAllister, Grumstrup, Forthofer
Wildland fires have an irreplaceable role in sustaining many of our forests, shrublands and grasslands. They can be used as controlled burns or occur as free-burning wildfires, but can also be dangerous and destructive to fauna, human communities and natural resources. Through…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES