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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Moritz, Hazard, Johnston, Mayes, Mowery, Oran, Parkinson, Schmidt, Wesolowski
There are thousands of communities and millions of homes in fire-prone wildland–urban interface (WUI) environments. Although future developments may be sited and designed to be more survivable and resistant to losses, an over-arching strategy is needed for those that are already…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Cruz, Alexander, Fernandes
The suggestion has been made within the wildland fire community that the rate of spread in the upper portion of the fire danger spectrum is largely independent of the physical fuel characteristics in certain forest ecosystem types. Our review and analysis of the relevant…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

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 multistate regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Vaillant
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based application designed to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective. IFTDSS provides access to data and…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Yedinak
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. Wildland fires occupy the biosphere as both an ecological process essential for maintaining species diversity and a hazard to human lives, infrastructure and activities. Fire managers’ ability to anticipate fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Ramírez
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. Technosyva is a company of 50 professionals based in San Diego and in Leon, Spain. Since 1997 we focused on developing technology and applications for the wildland fire community, with a strong partnership with…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Leach, Gibson
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. NWS Missoula has experimented with methods for distributing probabilistic forecast information from the National Blend of Models (NBM). These are text-based and intended to compliment “spot” weather forecasts for…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Moody
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. A microscale wildfire model (QES-Fire), which dynamically couples the fire front to microscale winds, was developed utilizing a simplified physics rate of spread (ROS) model, a kinematic plume-rise model and a…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Belenguer-Plomer, Tanase, Chuvieco, Bovolo
In this paper, we present an in-depth analysis of the use of convolutional neural networks (CNN), a deep learning method widely applied in remote sensing-based studies in recent years, for burned area (BA) mapping combining radar and optical datasets acquired by Sentinel-1 and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Simpson, Archibald, Osborne
Grasses fuel most fires on Earth and strongly influence local fire behaviour through traits that determine how flammable they are. Therefore, grass communities that differ in their species and trait compositions give rise to significant spatial variation in savanna fire regimes…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Nakata, Sano, Mukai, Kokhanovsky
The severity of wildfires is increasing globally. In this study, we used data from the Global Change Observation Mission-Climate/Second-generation Global Imager (GCOM-C/SGLI) to characterize the biomass burning aerosols that are generated by large-scale wildfires. We used data…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

An overview of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Year: 1997
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Ghosh, Kumar
Forest fire poses a serious threat to wildlife, environment, and all mankind. This threat has prompted the development of various intelligent and computer vision based systems to detect forest fire. This article proposes a novel hybrid deep learning model to detect forest fire.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Haghani, Kuligowski, Rajabifard, Kolden
Along with the increase in the frequency of disastrous wildfires and bushfires around the world during the recent decades, scholarly research efforts have also intensified in this domain. This work investigates divisions and trends of the domain of wildfire/bushfire research.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Weise, Hao, Baker, Princevac, Aminfar, Palarea‐Albaladejo, Ottmar, Hudak, Restaino, O'Brien
Composition of pyrolysis gases for wildland fuels is often determined using ground samples heated in non-oxidising environments. Results are applied to wildland fires where fuels change spatially and temporally, resulting in variable fire behaviour with variable heating. Though…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Gollner
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. Large wildfires of increasing frequency and severity threaten local populations and natural resources while contributing carbon emissions into the earth-climate system. Although wildfires have been researched and…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Duncanson, Kellner, Armston, Dubayah, Minor, Hancock, Healey, Patterson, Saarela, Marselis, Bruening, Goetz, Tang, Hofton, Blair, Luthcke, Fatoyinbo, Abernethy, Alonso, Andersen, Aplin, Baker, Barbier, Bastin, Biber, Boeckx, Bogaert, Boschetti, Boucher, Boyd, Burslem, Calvo-Rodriguez, Chave, Chazdon, Clark, Clark, Cohen, Coomes, Corona, Cushman, Cutler, Dalling, Dalponte, Dash, de-Miguel, Deng, Ellis, Erasmus, Fekety, Fernández-Landa, Ferraz, Fischer, Garcia-Abril, Gobakken, Hacker, Heurich, Hill, Hopkinson
NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest aboveground biomass density (AGBD). This paper presents the development of the models used to create GEDI…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jones, Abatzoglou, Veraverbeke, Andela, Lasslop, Forkel, Smith, Burton, Betts, Van der Werf
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating climate change. Here we review current understanding of the impacts of climate change on fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sample, Thode, Peterson, Gallagher, Flatley, Friggens, Evans, Loehman, Hedwall, Brandt, Janowiak, Swanston
As the effects of climate change accumulate and intensify, resource managers juggle existing goals and new mandates to operationalize adaptation. Fire managers contend with the direct effects of climate change on resources in addition to climate-induced disruptions to fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Azami, Orger, Schulz, Oshiro, Cho
The KITSUNE satellite is a 6-unit CubeSat platform with the main mission of 5-m-class Earth observation in low Earth orbit (LEO), and the payload is developed with a 31.4 MP commercial off-the-shelf sensor, customized optics, and a camera controller board. Even though the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Grissino-Mayer
COFECHA is a computer program that assesses the quality of crossdating and measurement accuracy of tree-ring series. Written by Richard L. Holmes in 1982, the program has evolved into one of the most important and widely used in dendrochronology. It is important to note that…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Trigg
Calculated values of precipitation effectiveness index and temperature efficiency index for 48 weather observation stations on the Alaska mainland are used to delineate areas that have different climatic subclassifications during the wildfire season of April through September.…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Yan, Zhu, Wang, Zhang, Luo, Qian, Jiang
This study investigates the impacts of African wildfire aerosols (primary organic carbon, black carbon and sulfate) on the Northern Hemispheric in January. We found that wildfire aerosols emitted from equatorial Africa result in two mid-to-high latitudes atmospheric Rossby wave…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Son, Kim, Wang, Jeong, Woo, Jeong, Lee, Kim, LaPlante, Kwon
The 2015 Paris Agreement led to a number of studies that assessed the impact of the 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C increases in global temperature over preindustrial levels. However, those assessments have not actively investigated the impact of these levels of warming on fire weather. In…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Justino, Bromwich, Wilson, Silva, Avila-Diaz, Fernandez, Rodrigues
Satellite-based hot-spot analysis for the Pan-Arctic, shows that Asia experiences a greater number of fires compared to North America and Europe. While hot spots are prevalent through the year in Asia, Europe (North America) exhibits marked annual (semi-annual) variability. The…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES