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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Larsen, Hanigan, Reich, Qin, Cope, Morgan, Rappold
Background
Wildland fire (wildfire; bushfire) pollution contributes to poor air quality, a risk factor for premature death. The frequency and intensity of wildfires are expected to increase; improved tools for estimating exposure to fire smoke are vital. New-generation satellite…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Theys, Volkamer, Müller, Zarzana, Kille, Clarisse, De Smedt, Lerot, Finkenzeller, Hendrick, Koenig, Lee, Knote, Yu, Van Roozendael
Nitrous acid (HONO) is a precursor of the hydroxyl radical in the atmosphere, which controls the degradation of greenhouse gases, contributes to photochemical smog and ozone production, and influences air quality. Although biomass burning is known to contribute substantially to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hassan, Mahmoud
The current COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vulnerability of healthcare systems worldwide. When combined with natural disasters, pandemics can further strain an already exhausted healthcare system. To date, frameworks for quantifying the collective effect of the two…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gaglioti, Berner, Jones, Orndahl, Williams, Andreu-Hayles, D'Arrigo, Goetz, Mann
As the Arctic warms, tundra wildfires are expected to become more frequent and severe. Assessing how the most flammable regions of the tundra respond to burning can inform us about how the rest of the Arctic may be affected by climate change. Here we describe ecosystem responses…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fagen, Weir, Payne
Landowners across the country are constantly looking for ways to innovate and become more efficient in their everyday practices. Land managers who choose to practice prescribed fire are no different. Landowners know adequate equipment and personnel are needed to conduct each…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Ikejiri, Lu
The Devonian is known for the earliest dispersal of extensive wildfires, but the spatiotemporal diversification pattern and process have not been studied in detail. We synthesize a total of 65 global wildfire occurrences based on fossil charcoals and geochemical (biomarker)…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ascher, Alexander
This videotape production (1987, 18 min) offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project being conducted at Big Fish Lake in northcentral Alberta since 1984 by Forestry Canada and the Alberta Forest Service (AFS).
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
"Mounting the Attack on Wildfire" is a 18-minute video produced in 1987 by the Canadian Forest Service that offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project conducted with the Alberta Forest Service at Big Fish Lake in north-central Alberta during the mid to…
Year: 1987
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
De Vivo, Johnson, Battipede
The accurate prediction of the wildfire spread-rate is a challenging task, due to the high number of parameters involved and the underlying complex dynamic multi-physics processes which drive the phenomenon. For these reasons, data-driven prediction tools could be useful to…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roy, Li, Giglio, Boschetti, Huang
The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard the new generation of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series provides 10 min, multi-spectral, 500 m to 2 km observations, with significantly improved…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt, Grabinski
The 2019 McKinley wildfire burned north of Wasilla during the driest summer on record. Lessons learned from the McKinley wildfire are shared in this infographic with the goal of helping other Alaskans better prepare for future wildfire.
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Hrobak
The National Park Service (NPS) Interior Region 11 (Alaska) fire ecology program provides science based information to guide fire and land management planning, decisions and practices to maintain and understand fire-adapted ecosystems in Alaska. This annual report provides a…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Wooster, He, Zhang
Geostationary imaging sensors offer unique high temporal resolution capabilities with which to characterise the fast-changing dynamics of landscape fires. The new R-Series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) are the most advanced geostationary weather…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landis, Long, Krug, Colón, Vanderpool, Habel, Urbanski
Wildland fires can emit substantial amounts of air pollution that may pose a risk to those in proximity (e.g., first responders, nearby residents) as well as downwind populations. Quickly deploying air pollution measurement capabilities in response to incidents has been limited…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bhatt, Lader, Walsh, Bieniek, Thoman, Berman, Borries-Strigle, Bulock, Chriest, Hahn, Hendricks, Jandt, Little, McEvoy, Moore, Rupp, Schmidt, Stevens, Strader, Waigl, White, York, Ziel
The late-season extreme fire activity in Southcentral Alaska during 2019 was highly unusual and consequential. Firefighting operations had to be extended by a month in 2019 due to the extreme conditions of hot summer temperature and prolonged drought. The ongoing fires created…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Noyes, Kahn, Limbacher, Li, Fenn, Giles, Hair, Katich, Moore, Robinson, Sanchez, Shingler, Thornhill, Wiggins, Winstead
Although the characteristics of biomass burning events and the ambient ecosystem determine emitted smoke composition, the conditions that modulate the partitioning of black carbon (BC) and brown carbon (BrC) formation are not well understood, nor are the spatial or temporal…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cahoon, Stocks, Alexander, Baum, Goldammer
New satellite instruments are currently being designed specifically for fire detection, even though to date the detection of active fires from space has never been an integral part of the design of any in-orbit space mission. Rather, the space-based detection of fires during the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alkhatib
Context. Apart from causing tragic loss of lives and valuable natural and individual properties including thousands of hectares of forest and hundreds of houses, forest fires are a great menace to ecologically healthy grown forests and protection of the environment. Every year,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chowdhury, Hassan
Forest fire is a natural phenomenon in many ecosystems across the world. One of the most important components of forest fire management is the forecasting of fire danger conditions. Here, our aim was to critically analyse the following issues, (i) current operational forest fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giglio, Descloitres, Justice, Kaufman
Experience with the first 2 years of high quality data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) through quality control and validation has suggested several improvements to the original MODIS active fire detection algorithm described by Kaufman, Justice et…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ichoku
Wildfires and other types of biomass burning are a seasonal phenomenon in different land ecosystems around the world. Such fires are estimated to consume biomass containing a total of 2-5 petagrams of carbon globally every year, generating heat energy and emitting smoke plumes…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Tedim, Leone
This paper presents the results of an explorative survey, based on a questionnaire sent by email, about how wildfire experts, operating in different countries, perceive wildfire and express their mindset by defining “wildfire” from a list of 14 terms and how they justify their…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burri, Emelko, Rhoades
What does current science and experience tell us about the near and long-term impacts of fire on water quality and how to recover?
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Podschwit, Cullen
The simultaneous occurrence of wildfire can hinder firefighting effectiveness via multiple mechanisms that might explain historical resource demand trends. We validate this hypothesis by using data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) project to determine if…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lindley, Ziel, Teske, Jolly, Law
The Fire Environment Continuing Education SubCommittee presents the 2020 Fall Fire Environment Post Season Lessons Learned Webinar
Topics will include:
Satellite-derived data
WildfireSAFE
Tips for Remote fire analysis assignments
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES