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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Sierra-Hernández, Beaudon, Porter, Mosley-Thompson, Thompson
Wildfires emit large quantities of particles that affect Earth’s climate and human health. Black carbon (BC), commonly known as soot, is directly emitted to the atmosphere by wildfires and other processes and can be transported and deposited in remote regions including high-…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Yang, Liang, Zheng, Yin, Tian, Cui
Forest fire is a ubiquitous disaster which has a long-term impact on the local climate as well as the ecological balance and fire products based on remote sensing satellite data have developed rapidly. However, the early forest fire smoke in remote sensing images is small in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cloud-to-ground lightning and near-surface fire weather control wildfire occurrence in Arctic tundra
Wildfire is a dominant disturbance agent in pan-Arctic tundra and can significantly impact terrestrial carbon balance and ecosystem functioning. Interactions between fire and climate change can enhance their impacts on the Arctic. However, the driving mechanisms of tundra fire…
Year: 2022
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
Giglio, Kendall, Mack
A pan-tropical active fire dataset derived from observations made with the Visible and Infrared Scanner (VIRS), onboard the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, is described. The dataset consists of monthly 0.5° resolution fire summary products from January 1998…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker
It is predicted that under a warming climate, wildfire frequency will likely increase. The increase in fire activity is hypothesized as a likely consequence of increased atmospheric CO2-driven climate warming having the potential to influence fire weather and increase ignition…
Year: 2022
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
Datta, Kumar, Sinha, Das
Forest fires can have multiple engenderers including lighting and thunder, unauthorized human exercises, and unrestrained fire projects. In addition to precautions, quick detection, immediate communication, and prompt response are critical to keeping losses to life and property…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Shevade, Baer, Loboda
Global estimates of burned areas, enabled by the wide-open access to the standard data products from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), are heavily relied on by scientists and managers studying issues related to wildfire occurrence and its worldwide…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wooster, Roberts, Giglio, Roy, Freeborn, Boschetti, Justice, Ichoku, Schroeder, Davies, Smith, Setzer, Csiszar, Strydom, Frost, Zhang, Xu, de Jong, Johnston, Ellison, Vadrevu, McCarty, Tanpipat, Schmidt, SanMiguel-Ayanz
Highlights:
A review of active fire remote sensing using EO satellites is presented.
Different approaches for fire detection and characterization are compared and contrasted.
Main satellite active fire products and their applications are summarised.
Some key research topics for…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
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
An interesting collection of reports of large fires in the Tanana Flats in 1941-1942. Parts of the 1941 fires over-wintered and reappeared in spring 1942—an early record of this phenomenon which sparked a Research Brief in 2020: https://akfireconsortium.files.wordpress.com/2020…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
A fascinating compilation of materials on the 421,000-acre Kenai wildfire of the summer of 1947 by Roger Robinson, who at that time led the fledgling territorial Alaskan Fire Control Service as Regional Forester. His collected materials (in response to a request from the Corps…
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mansoor, Farooq, Kachroo, Mahmoud, Fawzy, Popescu, Alyemeni, Sonne, Rinklebe, Ahmad
Forests have been undergoing through immense pressure due to the factors like human activities; procurement of forest products and climate change which is a major factor influencing this pressure buildup on forests. Climate change and temperature increase caused by anthropogenic…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCarty, Aalto, Paunu, Arnold, Eckhardt, Klimont, Fain, Evangeliou, Venäläinen, Tchebakova, Parfenova, Kupiainen, Soja, Huang
In recent years, the pan-Arctic region has experienced increasingly extreme fire seasons. Fires in the northern high latitudes are driven by current and future climate change, lightning, fuel conditions, and human activity. In this context, conceptualizing and parameterizing…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Langford, Kumar, Hoffman
Wildfires are the dominant disturbance impacting many regions in Alaska and are expected to intensify due to climate change. Accurate tracking and quantification of wildfires are important for climate modeling and ecological studies in this region. Remote sensing platforms (e.g…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scholten, Jandt, Miller, Rogers, Veraverbeke
Forest fires are usually viewed within the context of a single fire season, in which weather conditions and fuel supply can combine to create conditions favourable for fire ignition—usually by lightning or human activity—and spread1,2,3. But some fires exhibit ‘overwintering’…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grabinski
An intensified pattern of wildfire is emerging in Alaska as rapidly increasing temperatures and longer growing seasons alter the state's environment. Both tundra and Boreal forest regions are seeing larger and more frequent fires. The impacts of these fires are felt across the…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Conkling
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sharma, Dhakal
With increasing forest and grassland wildfire trends strongly correlated to anthropogenic climate change, assessing wildfire danger is vital to reduce catastrophic human, economic, and environmental loss. From this viewpoint, the authors discuss various approaches deployed to…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Zhang, Huang, Gollner
Background: Wildfires represent a significant threat to peatlands globally, but whether peat fires can be initiated by a lofted firebrand is still unknown.Aims: We investigated the ignition threshold of peat fires by a glowing firebrand through laboratory-scale experiments.…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Wees, Van der Werf, Randerson, Andela, Chen, Morton
Fires, among other forms of natural and anthropogenic disturbance, play a central role in regulating the location, composition and biomass of forests. Understanding the role of fire in global forest loss is crucial in constraining land‐use change emissions and the global carbon…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O, Hou, Orth
Wildfires can destroy property and vegetation, thereby threatening people’s livelihoods and food security. Soil moisture and biomass are important determinants of wildfire hazard. Corresponding novel satellite-based observations therefore present an opportunity to better…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report assesses recent forest disturbance in the Western United States and discusses implications for sustainability. Individual chapters focus on fire, drought, insects, disease, invasive plants, and socioeconomic impacts. Disturbance data came from a variety of sources,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES