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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rogers, Soja, Goulden, Randerson
Wildfires are common in boreal forests around the globe and strongly influence ecosystem processes. However, North American forests support more high-intensity crown fires than Eurasia, where lower-intensity surface fires are common. These two types of fire can result in…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huang, Dahal, Liu, Jin, Young, Li, Liu
The albedo change caused by fires and the subsequent succession is spatially heterogeneous, leading to the need to assess the spatiotemporal variation of surface shortwave forcing (SSF) as a component to quantify the climate impacts of high-latitude fires. We used an image…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Padilla, Stehman, Ramo, Corti, Hantson, Oliva, Alonso-Canas, Bradley, Tansey, Mota, Pereira, Chuvieco
The accuracies of six global burned area (BA) products for year 2008 were compared using the same validation methods and reference data to quantify accuracy of each product. The selected products include MCD64, MCD45 and Geoland2, and three products developed within the Fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliva, Schroeder
The use of active fire detections for direct burned area mapping has been limited by the coarse spatial resolution and long revisit cycles of previous sensors. However, the recently developed VIIRS 375 m active fire detection product offers enhanced spatial resolution and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fox, Whitesides
Spreading fires are noisy (and potentially chaotic) systems in which transitions in dynamics are notoriously difficult to predict. As flames move through spatially heterogeneous environments, sudden shifts in temperature, wind, or topography can generate combustion instabilities…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steelman, McCaffrey, Velez, Briefel
The communication system through which information flows during a disaster can be conceived of as a set of relationships among sources and recipients who are concerned about key information characteristics. The recipient perspective is often neglected within this system. In this…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A description of fire occurrence and fire effects across the United States for the year of 2014. This includes spending, acres burned, reports on performance measures, and brief narratives on different fires.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ellison, Moseley, Bixler
Over the past century, wildland fire management has been core to the mission of federal land management agencies. In recent decades, however, federal spending on wildfire suppression has increased dramatically; suppression spending that on average accounted for less than 20…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dey, Schweitzer
The long history of fire in North America spans millennia and is recognized as an important driver in the widespread and long-term dominance of oak species. Early European settlers intensified the occurrence of fire from about 1850 to 1950, with dates varying by region. This…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Pereira, Uhl, Bravo, Bell
Background: Climate change is likely to increase the threat of wild fires, and little is known about how wild fires affect health in exposed communities. A better understanding of the impacts of the resulting air pollution has important public health implications for the present…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Turetsky, Benscoter, Page, Rein, Van der Werf, Watts
Globally, the amount of carbon stored in peats exceeds that stored in vegetation and is similar in size to the current atmospheric carbon pool. Fire is a threat to many peat-rich biomes and has the potential to disturb these carbon stocks. Peat fires are dominated by smouldering…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tang, Zhong, Luo, Bian, Heilman, Winkler
Climate change is expected to alter the frequency and severity of atmospheric conditions conducive for wildfires. In this study, we assess potential changes in fire weather conditions for the contiguous United States using the Haines Index (HI), a fire weather index that has…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hantson, Pueyo, Chuvieco
Aim: In order to understand fire's impacts on vegetation dynamics, it is crucial that the distribution of fire sizes be known. We approached this distribution using a power-law distribution, which derives from self-organized criticality theory (SOC). We compute the global…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Edwards, Franklin-Smith, Clarke, Baker, Hill, Gallagher
In north-west Canada, Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine) has been migrating northwards and westwards for millennia. Its regeneration is currently enhanced by fire, which may act as a trigger for local population expansion. Using Holocene charcoal records from four small (<10 ha…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alba, Skálová, McGregor, D'Antonio, Pyšek
Questions: Wildfire is a natural disturbance that shapes vegetation characteristics worldwide, while prescribed fire is increasingly used to modify vegetation composition and structure. Due to invasion of many ecosystems by exotic species, a concern of land managers is whether…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas
There is increasing evidence that alternative stable vegetation types exist for a given climate that are maintained by distinct fire regimes. Paritsis et al. (2014, this issue) provide an example in a temperate ecosystem. Here I briefly review cases of bi-stability in various…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ziel
As the fire behavior community aspires to promote best practices amongst a range of fire behavior experience, this webinar strives to share information regarding lessons learned from fire behavior prediction on 2015 wildfire incidents. Every fire season there are parts of the…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Varner
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Olsen
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Guyette
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Burnett, Johnson
The source idea for the Quadrennial Defense Review (QFR) was the U.S. Department of Defense’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) model. For several decades, the QDR model has served as a vehicle for the U.S. military to reexamine shifts in military strategy and changes in…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell
On May 19, 2014, during unusually dry weather, a fire started in a popular recreational area near Funny River Road in the Kenai, near Newberry's home. The wind pushed it through dry grasses and into insect-killed stands of spruce. By the end of the day, fire had consumed 2,500…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jeffery
Wildfire is often a naturally occurring process, hence the term 'natural hazard,' but unlike other natural, potentially disastrous weather-related events, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods, there are two critical human elements unique to a wildfire: it is the only…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Val Martin, Pierce, Heald
In the United States, wildfires burn millions of acres every year, releasing large amounts of gases and particles to the atmosphere.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES