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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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CMAQ (see-mak), the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, is an active open-source development project of the US Environmental Protection Agencythat consists of a suite of programs for conducting air quality model simulations. CMAQ combines current knowledge in…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Smoke from wildfires in the United States is adversely affecting air quality and potentially putting more people at health risk from smoke exposure. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the USDA Forest Service, and other federal, state and community agencies…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The AirNow Fire and Smoke Map provides information that you can use to help protect your health from wildfire smoke. Use this map to see:
Current particle pollution air quality information for your location;
Fire locations and smoke plumes;
Smoke Forecast Outlooks, where…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
'Fire Research at the Science–Policy–Practitioner Interface' is a Section of the fully open access journal Fire. The main aim of the Section is to highlight research seeking to assess operational approaches to wildland fire management, and to facilitate the sharing of…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Fire is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment, broadly defined, published quarterly online by MDPI. Fire serves as an international forum for diverse…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Provides access to the data used in the GWIS applications. Data from the Current Situation Viewer are provided from the WMS (Web Map Service).
Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Boschetti, Roy
The datasets distributed from the new "County Profiles" portal are designed to be used for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change compliant fire activity reporting and emission inventories. From the new portal, users can access tables, maps and interactive charts that…
Year: 2021
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
A tool that is part of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) providing fire danger forecast up to 10 days in advance, 1-day lightning forecast and near-real time information on active fires, burnt areas and emissions worldwide.
Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Smoke Emissions Reference Application (SERA) database is a compilation of field and laboratory emission factors of wildland fire across the United States and Canada. The SERA database facilitates the analysis and summary of existing emission factors for emissions inventories…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Wildland fire incident management activities create an ideal environment for the transmission of infectious diseases: high-density living and working conditions, lack of access to and use of soap and sanitizers, and a transient workforce. These and other environmental and…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development hosted a web summit June 12-13, 2019, to share information about the effectiveness of air filtration to improve indoor air during wildland fire smoke events. The summit consisted of four topic-based…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a large-eddy simulation (LES) code for low-speed flows, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires. Smokeview (SMV) is a visualization program used to display the output of FDS and CFAST simulations.
Year: 2015
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FAC Net) exists to support and connect people and communities working on wildfire resilience. It offers community-based leaders resources, tools and connections to reduce their wildfire risk and increase community resilience. FAC…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires over the last couple decades have increased in size and intensity and the fire season has lengthened, resulting in increased wildfire suppression costs and greater risk to human health and safety. The large, severe fires have also had pronounced effects on water…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Fires are increasing in frequency, size and intensity partly due to climate change and land management practices, yet there is limited knowledge of the impacts of smoke emissions - both short term and long term. EPA is using its expertise in air quality research to fill the gaps…
Year: 2017
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
A series of presentations in which experts explore the trade-offs between wildfire, prescribed fire, forest health, and public health in a one day public forum. This seminar event was hosted by the University of British Columbia on April 18th, 2016.
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of this workshop is to learn about and discuss various aspects of smoke management associated with wildland fire in the Southwestern United States. Wildland fire encompasses prescribed fire and wildfire. Topics include fire ecology and technical tools; health and…
Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Exceptional events are unusual or naturally occurring events that can affect air quality but are not reasonably controllable using techniques that tribal, state or local air agencies may implement in order to attain and maintain the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. …
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
EPA's Exceptional Events Rule guidance page which includes the final rule, the EER guidance document, responses to public comments, fact sheets, the federal register notice, and prior drafts of the rule and guidance.
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Fire Ecology is the international scientific journal supported by the Association for Fire Ecology. It publishes peer-reviewed articles on all ecological and management aspects relating to wildland fire. We welcome submissions on topics that include a broad range of research on…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The US Forest Service Research Data Archive preserves and publishes short and long-term research data collected from studies funded by: Forest Service Research and Development (FS R&D); Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP); Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute (ALWRI). Of…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS) manages data concerning consumption, emissions and heat release characteristics of prescribed burns and wildland fires. FEPS can be used for most forest, shrub and grassland types in North America and the world. The program allows…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Swedin, Eagle
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
Year: 2014
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Contains information about emissions in the United States.
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Giglio, Randerson, Van der Werf
Fires are an important source of atmospheric trace gases and aerosols and they are the most important disturbance agent on a global scale. In addition, deforestation and tropical peatland fires and areas that see an increase in the frequency of fires add to the build-up of…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES