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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Goode, Yokelson, Ward, Susott, Babbitt, Davies, Hao
We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girardin, Bergeron, Tardif, Gauthier, Flannigan, Mudelsee
Six independent tree-ring reconstructions of summer drought were calibrated against instrumental fire data to develop a 229-year dendroclimatic-inferred record of fire activity (annual area burned and fire occurrence) on the Boreal Shield, Canada. As a means of validating the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Girardin, Tardif, Flannigan, Wotton, Bergeron
Trends and periodicities in summer drought severity are investigated on a network of Canadian Drought Code (CDC) monthly average indices extending from central Quebec to western Manitoba and covering the instrumental period 1913-1998. The relationship and coherency between CDC…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Giddings
Tree-ring data were obtained in 1942 from nine groups of living Spruce trees situated at about 50-mile intervals along the Yukon River, and from one group on the Kuskokwim River, Alaska. Particular attention is given to the significance of temperature as a factor influencing…
Year: 1943
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gedalof, Smith
In this paper we review the ecology and physiology of mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) CarriFre) in the context of a dendroclimatological analysis. To better understand the relationship between mountain hemlock growth and climate variability throughout its range we…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gavin, Hallett, Hu, Lertzman, Prichard, Brown, Lynch, Bartlein, Peterson
Millennial-scale records of forest fire provide important baseline information for ecosystem management, especially in regions with too few recent fires to describe the historical range of variability. Charcoal records from lake sediments and soil profiles are well suited for…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Garfinkel, Brubaker
Statistical comparisons between tree-ring width sequences and climatic records provide a means of identifying climatic limitations on tree growth and allow the reconstruction of past climates. This information is especially important in the North American sub-Arctic where…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Tian, Liu
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gillett, Weaver, Zwiers, Flannigan
The area burned by forest fires in Canada has increased over the past four decades, at the same time as summer season temperatures have warmed. Here we use output from a coupled climate model to demonstrate that human emissions of greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol have made a…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Goovaerts, Kasischke
The uncertainty in carbon emissions from fire was estimated for the boreal region of Alaska over the 50 years of recorded wildfire. Building on previous work where carbon emissions were estimated using a geographic information systems-based model, the uncertainty attached to the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
France, Steedman, Lehmann, Peters
It has been recently suggested that droughts induced by climate warming reduce the catchment export of colour-forming, and therefore, UV-B protective, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to boreal lakes, which in turn may influence the health of resident biota. The concentration of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fox
This paper shows that there is a reasonable coincidence between the Canada lynx cycle and the occurrence of forest and brush fires. Fires set in motion plant succession, potentially leading to an increase in snowshoe hares (Grange, 1965). Snowfall is also correlated with the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fosberg
Numerical simulation of dead fuel behavior under different climatological regimes has quantified three universal characteristics of fuels: (1) response of the fuel to climatological moisture-induced stress; (2) response of the outer layers of the fuel to both standard drying…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flannigan, Bergeron, Engelmark, Wotton
Despite increasing temperatures since the end of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1850), wildfire frequency has decreased as shown in many field studies from North America and Europe. We believe that global warming since 1850 may have triggered decreases in fire frequency in some regions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flannigan, Van Wagner
This study investigates the impact of postulated greenhouse warming on the severity of the forest fire season in Canada. Using CO2 levels that are double those of the present (2 X CO2), simulation results from three general circulation models (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fitzgerald
Alaska's climate is changing. Strong linkages between climate, fire, and vegetation imply that fire's sensitivity to global change could be more important than the direct effects of climatic warming on terrestrial ecosystems.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fernandes, Botelho
Wildfire hazard abatement is one of the major reasons to use prescribed burning. Computer simulation, case studies, and analysis of the fire regimes in the presence of active prescribed burning programs in forest and shrubland generally indicate that this fuel management too…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Macias Fauria, Johnson
The area burned in the North American boreal forest is controlled by the frequency of mid-tropospheric blocking highs that cause rapid fuel drying. Climate controls the area burned through changing the dynamics of large-scale teleconnection patterns (Pacific Decadal Oscillation/…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fantin, Morin
(French title: Croissance juvenile comparee de deux generations successives de semis d'epinette noire issus de graines apres feu en foret boreale, Quebec) The objective of this study was to compare juvenile (0-12 years) height growth pattern of dominant mature trees from two…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eugster, Vaganov, Rouse, Pielke, Chapin, Vidale, Chambers, McFadden, Baldocchi, Liston
This paper summarizes and analyses available data on the surface energy balance of Arctic tundra and boreal forest. The complex interactions between ecosystems and their surface energy balance are also examined, including climatically induced shifts in ecosystem type that might…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Detecting changes in arctic tundra plant communities in response to warming over decadal time scales
Detecting the response of vegetation to climate forcing as distinct from spatial and temporal variability may be difficult, if not impossible, over the typical duration of most field studies. We analyzed the spatial and interannual variability of plant functional type biomass…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Engling, Carrico, Kreidenweis, Collett, Day, Malm, Lincoln, Hao, Linuma, Herrman
Atmospheric particulate matter can be strongly affected by smoke from biomass combustion, including wildfires, prescribed burns, and residential wood burning. Molecular source tracer techniques help determine contributions of biomass smoke to particle concentrations if…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Engelmark, Hofgaard, Arnborg
Results are presented from repeated analyses (1962, 1993) of a permanent plot established in 1947, combined with retrospective stand age structure data, in an old boreal Pinus sylvestris stand in Muddus National Park, northern Sweden. The study points towards a successional…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Edwards, Barker
Changing abundances of taxa in the pollen record of northeastern Alaska contain a climate signal and may be compared with GCM simulations of paleo climates. Cold, dry conditions indicated by full-glacial pollen spectra are in broad agreement with model simulations. Successive…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drury, Grissom
We conducted this investigation in response to criticisms that the current Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plans are allowing too much of the landscape in interior Alaska to burn annually. To address this issue, we analyzed fire history patterns within the Yukon Flats…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS