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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Paveglio, Carroll, Absher, Norton
This study uses social constructionism as a basis for understanding the effectiveness of communication about wildfire risk between agency officials and wildland-urban interface (WUI) residents. Risk communication literature demonstrates a welldocumented difference in the way…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mallet, Keyes, Fendell
Level set methods are versatile and extensible techniques for general front tracking problems, including the practically important problem of predicting the advance of a fire front across expanses of surface vegetation. Given a rule, empirical or otherwise, to specify the rate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Qiu
Lightning and fires on the Arctic tundra seem to be on the rise. Jane Qiu meets the researchers learning from the scorched earth in Alaska.
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The promise of wildland fire use (WFU) is that, over time, the fires will play a more natural role, creating a jigsaw-puzzle pattern of burned and regrowing patches over a landscape and gradually moving it closer to the stand structure and species composition that prevailed…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act calls for local communities in the wildland-urban interface to collaborate on developing Community Wildfire Protection Plans to reduce their wildfire hazard. To craft a successful CWPP, a community must collaborate effectively. A Joint…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mack, Bret-Harte, Hollingsworth, Jandt, Shaver, Schuur, Verbyla
A predicted consequence of human-caused climate warming at high latitudes is an increase in the frequency, intensity and aerial extent of wildfires. This could feedback positively to climate warming by transferring carbon (C) stored in terrestrial ecosystems to the atmosphere…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ray, Trainor, Huntington, Huntington, Natcher, Rupp
Recent global environmental and social changes have created a set of "wicked problems" for which the nature of the problem is poorly defined, the future conditions uncertain, and there is no optimal solution. Athabascan communities in Interior Alaska have confronted this…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brinkman, Chapin, Kofinas, Person
The effects of landscape changes caused by intensive logging on the availability of wild game are important when the harvest of wild game is a critical cultural practice, food source, and recreational activity. We assessed the influence of extensive industrial logging on the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report summarizes the science of climate change and the impacts of climate change on the United States, now and in the future. It is largely based on results of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and integrates those results with related research from around…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ohse, Huettmann, Ickert-Bond, Juday
Most wilderness areas still lack accurate distribution information on tree species. We met this need with a predictive GIS modeling approach, using freely available digital data and computer programs to efficiently obtain high-quality species distribution maps. Here we present a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimov, Zimov, Zimova, Zimova, Chuprynin, Chapin
During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), atmospheric CO2 concentration was 80-100 ppmv lower than in pre-industrial times. At that time steppe-tundra was the most extensive biome on Earth. Some authors assume that C storage in that biome was very small, similar to today's deserts…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Li, Randerson, Kahn, Nelson, Diner
Forest fires in Alaska and western Canada represent important sources of aerosols and trace gases in North America. Among the largest uncertainties when modeling forest fire effects are the timing and injection height of biomass burning emissions. Here we simulate CO and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, Munster, Manies, Mack, Bubier
In an effort to characterize the species and production rates of various upland mosses and their relationship to both site drainage and time since fire, annual net primary production of six common moss species was measured. Several stands located near Delta Junction, interior…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Jandt, Klein
We review and present a synthesis of the existing research dealing with changing Arctic tundra ecosystems, in relation to caribou and reindeer winter ranges. Whereas pan-Arctic studies have documented the effects on tundra vegetation from simulated climate change, we draw upon…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Stocks, Turetsky, Wotton
Forest fires are a significant and natural element of the circumboreal forest. Fire activity is strongly linked to weather, and increased fire activity due to climate change is anticipated or arguably has already occurred. Recent studies suggest a doubling of area burned along…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, McFarland, McGuire, Euskirchen, Ruess, Kielland
Current climate systems models that include only NPP and HR are inadequate under conditions of rapid change. Many of the recent advances in biogeochemical understanding are sufficiently mature to substantially improve representation of ecosystem C dynamics in these models.
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Skog, Jones, Chung, Spelter, Baldridge, Brandt, Loeffler, Songster
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) sponsored this study to enhance the ability of federal land managers to understand and deal with the economic and financial aspects of woody biomass removal as a component of fire hazard reduction treatments. The study objectives were to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tachajapong, Lozano, Mahalingam, Zhou, Weise
The transition of fire from dry surface fuels to wet shrub crown fuels was studied using laboratory experiments and a simple physical model to gain a better understanding of the transition process. In the experiments, we investigated the effects of varying vertical distances…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Provost, Stanford, Yu
A moment-based methodology is proposed for approximating the distribution of the distance between two random points belonging to sets that are composed of convex polygons. The resulting density approximants are expressed as the product of a beta density function and a polynomial…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin, Martin, Kent
An important policy question receiving considerable attention concerns the risk perception-risk mitigation process that guides how individuals choose to address natural hazard risks. This question is considered in the context of wildfire. We analyze the factors that influence…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krawchuk, Moritz, Parisien, Van Dorn, Hayhoe
Climate change is expected to alter the geographic distribution of wildfire, a complex abiotic process that responds to a variety of spatial and environmental gradients. How future climate change may alter global wildfire activity, however, is still largely unknown. As a first…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley
Several recent papers have suggested replacing the terminology of fire intensity and fire severity. Part of the problem with fire intensity is that it is sometimes used incorrectly to describe fire effects, when in fact it is justifiably restricted to measures of energy output.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sun, Krueger, Jenkins, Zulauf, Charney
The major source of uncertainty in wildfire behavior prediction is the transient behavior of wildfire due to changes in flow in the fire's environment. The changes in flow are dominated by two factors. The first is the interaction or 'coupling' between the fire and the fire-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Vodacek, Coen
We describe a method for generating synthetic infrared remote-sensing scenes of wildland fire. These synthetic scenes are an important step in data assimilation, which is defined as the process of incorporating new data into an executing model. In our case, this is a fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rehm, Mell
The present paper presents a simple model to demonstrate the effect on grass-fire propagation of the winds induced by structural fires in a wildland-urban interface setting. The model combines an empirical formula for wind-driven grass-fire spread and a physics-based analytical…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS