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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Thomas, Polashenski, Soja, Marelle, Casey, Choi, Raut, Wiedinmyer, Emmons, Fast, Pelon, Law, Flanner, Dibb
Black carbon (BC) concentrations observed in 22 snowpits sampled in the northwest sector of the Greenland ice sheet in April 2014 have allowed us to identify a strong and widespread BC aerosol deposition event, which was dated to have accumulated in the pits from two snow storms…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chasmer, Hopkinson, Petrone, Sitar
Accuracy of depth of burn (an indicator of consumption) in peatland soils using prefire and postfire airborne light detection and ranging (lidar) data is determined within a wetland-upland forest environment near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. The relationship between peat soil…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Itter, Finley, Hooten, Higuera, Marlon, Kelly, McLachlan
Lake sediment charcoal records are used in paleoecological analyses to reconstruct fire history, including the identification of past wildland fires. One challenge of applying sediment charcoal records to infer fire history is the separation of charcoal associated with local…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kitzberger, Falk, Westerling, Swetnam
Predicting wildfire under future conditions is complicated by complex interrelated drivers operating across large spatial scales. Annual area burned (AAB) is a useful index of global wildfire activity. Current and antecedent seasonal climatic conditions, and the timing of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout
Doug Rideout discusses STARfire - a spatial planning and budgeting system integrating fuels, preparedness, and risk assessment guided by ROI. Scaleable from planning unit to regional to national levels.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a tool for land managers to address wildfire…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Costafreda-Aumedes, Comas, Vega-García
The increasing global concern about wildfires, mostly caused by people, has triggered the development of human-caused fire occurrence models in many countries. The premise is that better knowledge of the underlying factors is critical for many fire management purposes, such as…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bieniek
Presentation by Peter Bieniek at the 2017 Alaska Fall Fire Science Workshop, October 10, 2017.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Calef, Varvak, McGuire
In western North America, the carbon-rich boreal forest is experiencing warmer temperatures, drier conditions and larger and more frequent wildfires. However, the fire regime is also affected by direct human activities through suppression, ignition, and land use changes. Models…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mahmoud, Chulahwat
The ‘wildland–urban interface’ (WUI) is a term commonly used to describe areas where wildfires and the built environment have the potential to interact resulting in loss of properties and potential loss of life. Significant residential losses associated with wildland interface…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Groot
This webinar addresses the following subjects regarding CanFIRE: CFFDRS science-management integration model; Stand-level, fire behaviour-based model; Simulates physical and ecological fire effects; Small scale (fire behaviour) to large scale (fire regimes); New fuel consumption…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Genet, Hue, Lyu, McGuire, Zhuang, Clein, D'Amore, Bennett, Breen, Biles, Euskirchen, Johnson, Kurkowski, Schroder, Pastick, Rupp, Wylie, Zhang, Zhou, Zhu
It is important to understand how upland ecosystems of Alaska, which are estimated to occupy 84% of the state (i.e. 1,237,774 km2), are influencing and will influence state-wide carbon (C) dynamics in the face of ongoing climate change. We coupled fire disturbance and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rutherford, Schultz
Presentation by Courtney Schultz and Tait Rutherford at the 2017 Alaska Fall Fire Science Workshop, October 10, 2017.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Coen, Schroeder
Large wildland fires are complex, dynamic phenomena that can encounter a wide range of fuels, terrain, and weather during a single event. They can produce intense firewhirls that snap mature trees and generate blowups. They can send 300-foot (100-m) bursts of flame shooting…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goodrick, Brown, Jolly
In a pair of review papers, Potter (2012a, 2012b) summarized the significant fire weather research findings over about the past hundred years. Our scientific understanding of wildland fire-atmosphere interactions has evolved: from simple correlations supporting the notion that…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pierce, Val Martin, Heald
Emissions of aerosols and gases from fires have been shown to adversely affect US air quality at local to regional scales as well as downwind regions far away from the source. In addition, smoke from fires negatively affects humans, ecosystems, and climate. Recent observations…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McMullen, De Leenheer, Tonkin, Lytle
Disturbances cause high mortality in populations while simultaneously enhancing population growth by improving habitats. These countervailing effects make it difficult to predict population dynamics following disturbance events. To address this challenge, we derived a novel form…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Sullivan
Generalised statements about the state of fire science are often used to provide a simplified context for new work. This paper explores the validity of five frequently repeated statements regarding empirical and physical models for predicting wildland fire behaviour. For…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beverly
In black spruce forests characterised by high-intensity crown fires, early detection and containment of fires while they are small is crucial for averting progression to fire intensities that exceed suppression capabilities. Fire behaviour conditions encountered during initial…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huang, Rein
Smouldering fires in peatland are different from the flames in wildland fires. Smouldering peat fire is slow, low-temperature and more persistent, releasing large amounts of smoke into the atmosphere. In this work, we experimentally and computationally investigate the vertical…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Munoz-Alpizar, Pavlovic, Moran, Chen, Gravel, Henderson, Ménard, Racine, Duhamel, Gilbert, Beaulieu, Landry, Davignon, Cousineau, Bouchet
FireWork is an on-line, one-way coupled meteorology–chemistry model based on near-real-time wildfire emissions. It was developed by Environment and Climate Change Canada to deliver operational real-time forecasts of biomass-burning pollutants, in particular fine particulate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Hoover
The carbon reports in the Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) provide two alternate approaches to carbon estimates for live trees (Rebain 2010). These are (1) the FFE biomass algorithms, which are volume- based biomass equations, and (2) the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Wells, Pimont, Jolly, Cohn, Linn, Mell, Hoffman
With rapid changes in forest health and an increasing presence of fire affecting many landscapes, fuel treatments are considered essential in efforts to potentially mitigate catastrophic fires, restore ecosystems and increase ecosystem resilience. Understanding fuel treatment…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Tesfaigzi, Bassein, Miller
Understanding the effect of wildfire smoke exposure on human health represents a unique interdisciplinary challenge to the scientific community. Population health studies indicate that wildfire smoke is a risk to human health and increases the healthcare burden of smoke-impacted…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duff, Keane, Penman, Tolhurst
Wildland fires are a function of properties of the fuels that sustain them. These fuels are themselves a function of vegetation, and share the complexity and dynamics of natural systems. Worldwide, the requirement for solutions to the threat of fire to human values has resulted…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES