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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Prichard, Stevens-Rumann, Hessburg
Across the globe, rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns have caused persistent regional droughts, lengthened fire seasons, and increased the number of weather-driven extreme fire events. Because wildfires currently impact an increasing proportion of the total…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Massman, Forthofer, Finney
The ability to rapidly estimate wind speed beneath a forest canopy or near the ground surface in any vegetation is critical to practical wildland fire behavior models. The common metric of this wind speed is the “mid-flame” wind speed, UMF. However, the existing approach for…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rashidi, Medal, Gordon, Grala, Varner
In this research, we study the vulnerability of landscapes to wildfires based on the impact of the worst-case scenario ignition locations. Using this scenario, we model wildfires that cause the largest damage to a landscape over a given time horizon. The landscape is modeled as…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Stuefer, Cooper
This webinar, organized jointly by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, will focus on changing wildfires in Alaska and resulting smoke impacts to help our audience be prepared for the upcoming wildfire season. Randi Jandt…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Shuman, Foster, Shugart, Hoffman-Hall, Krylov, Loboda, Ershov, Sochilova
Change in the Russian boreal forest has the capacity to alter global carbon and climate dynamics. Fire disturbance is an integral determinant of the forest's composition and structure, and changing climate conditions are expected to create more frequent and severe fires. Using…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Mack, Johnstone
Climate change has increased the occurrence, severity, and impact of disturbances on forested ecosystems worldwide, resulting in a need to identify factors that contribute to an ecosystem’s resilience or capacity to recover from disturbance. Forest resilience to disturbance may…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hasburgh, Zelinka, Stone
In the wildland-urban interface, wood decks are a target for wildfire and may be ignited by firebrands or flaming debris. Wood decks also present a potential source for ignition of structures in the wildland-urban interface. However, their role in ignition of the adjacent…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The costs of wildland fire in the United States are enormous, not only in terms of the financial impacts of fire suppression and post-fire rehabilitation of property and ecosystems, but also in terms of loss of lives, impacts on physical health of nearby communities, effects on…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hudspith, Belcher, Barnes, Dash, Kelly, Hu
Wildfires are anticipated to increase in frequency and extent in the Arctic tundra. In the unprecedented 2010 fire season, 37 tundra fires burned 435 km2 of the Noatak National Preserve, Alaska. We sampled sixteen soil monoliths from four of these burned areas, which based on…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan
Every year, thousands of small fires and dozens of large ones break out somewhere in Canada. This has been the story for millenia and will continue as long as there are people and lightning to start fires in the boreal forest. Now more than ever, people work, build, live, and…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Le Page
Vegetation fires are a complex aspect of terrestrial ecology to model because they depend on a wide range of climate, vegetation, and anthropogenic factors, and a major driver of ecosystem and carbon dynamics. This chapter explores the sensitivity of fire activity over temperate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Uncertainties are pervasive in natural hazards, and it is crucial to develop robust and meaningful approaches to characterize and communicate uncertainties to inform modeling efforts. In this monograph we provide a broad, cross-disciplinary overview of issues relating to…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riley, Thompson
Before fire models can be understood, evaluated, and effectively applied to support decision making, model-based uncertainties must be analyzed. In this chapter, we identify and classify sources of uncertainty using an established analytical framework, and summarize results…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin, Murray, Boehlert, Martinich, Rennels, Rupp
Climate change is altering wildfire activity across Alaska, with increased area burned projected for the future. Changes in wildfire are expected to affect the need for management and suppression resources; however, the potential economic implications of these needs have not…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Keeley, Schwilk
We live on a flammable planet yet there is little consensus on the origin and evolution of flammability in our flora. We argue that part of the problem lies in the concept of flammability, which should not be viewed as a single quantitative trait or metric. Rather, we propose…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bowman, Williamson, Abatzoglou, Kolden, Cochrane, Smith
Extreme wildfires have substantial economic, social and environmental impacts, but there is uncertainty whether such events are inevitable features of the Earth’s fire ecology or a legacy of poor management and planning. We identify 478 extreme wildfire events defined as the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Duffy
In 2016, the JFSP funded an Alaska proposal “Impacts of Climate and Management Options on Wildland Fire Fighting in Alaska: Implications for Operational Costs and Complexity under Future Scenarios." As a first stage in this work, investigators Dr. Paul Duffy and Dr. Courtney…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Leis, Greene
Grassland conservation efforts in the central United States are challenging because much of the land is privately held. The Patch Burn-Grazing Working Group was formed by a small group of professionals in an effort to share information and resources related to the practice of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rossa
Most studies on the effect of fuel moisture content (FMC) on forest fire behaviour focus on dead fuel moisture; mechanisms of fire spread in live vegetation are considered to remain unexplained by current theory and modelling. In this work, an empirical model for quantifying the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nogueira, Ruffault, Chuvieco, Mouillot
Global burned area (BA) datasets from satellite Earth observations provide information for carbon emission and for Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) benchmarking. Fire patch identification from pixel-level information recently emerged as an additional way of providing…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, Higuera, Duffy, Hu
Boreal forests and arctic tundra cover 33% of global land area and store an estimated 50% of total soil carbon. Because wildfire is a key driver of terrestrial carbon cycling, increasing fire activity in these ecosystems would likely have global implications. To anticipate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Pierce
This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency modeling team proposes to provide expertise related to smoke emissions, modeling, and transport to support the design of future field studies focused on fire behavior. As part of that commitment, we plan to model all of the pre-burn…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Linn
The physics-based models FIRETEC and WFDS have been used to simulate a number of field experiments involving fire in wildland fuels. These models work by simulating the coupled physical processes driving fire behavior including the drying and thermal degradation of vegetation,…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Kochanski, Fournier, Jenkins, Mandel
Recent advancements in fire-atmosphere modeling have increased the number of physical processes integrated into the coupled models. This greater complexity allows for more comprehensive representation of the complex interactions between the fire and the atmosphere; however, as a…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Urbanski
This proposal responds to JFSP FON #16-04 Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment, Task 4: Smoke Emissions, Chemistry, and Transport. Over the past decade, significant progress has been gained in characterizing the composition, transport, and processing of wildland fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES