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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Wang, Swystun, Flannigan
Great efforts have been made to understand the impacts of a changing climate on fire activity; however, a reliable approach with high prediction confidence has yet to be found. By establishing linkages between the longest duration of fire-conducive weather spell and fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leverkus, Thorn, Gustafsson, Noss, Müller, Pausas, Lindenmayer
[from the text] A recent warning to humanity signed by >15 000 scientists identified global environmental threats that require urgent policy response from world leaders (Ripple et al 2017). Here, we document challenges and propose solutions related to ongoing shifts in…
Year: 2021
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
Estimates of temporal-spatial variability of wildfire danger across the Pan-Arctic and extra-tropics
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
Yasunari, Nakamura, Kim, Choi, Lee, Tachibana, da Silva
Long-term assessment of severe wildfires and associated air pollution and related climate patterns in and around the Arctic is essential for assessing healthy human life status. To examine the relationships, we analyzed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Webb, Loranty, Lichstein
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average, due in part to the albedo feedbacks of a diminishing cryosphere. As snow cover extent decreases, the underlying land is exposed, which has lower albedo and therefore absorbs more radiation, warming the surface and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pereira, Oom, Silva, Benali
Climate and natural vegetation dynamics are key drivers of global vegetation fire, but anthropogenic burning now prevails over vast areas of the planet. Fire regime classification and mapping may contribute towards improved understanding of relationships between those fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ludwig, Natali, Mann, Schade, Holmes, Powell, Fiske, Commane
Climate change is causing an intensification in tundra fires across the Arctic, including the unprecedented 2015 fires in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta. The YK Delta contains extensive surface waters (∼33% cover) and significant quantities of organic carbon, much of which is…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhan, Hu, Zhou, Wang, Cai, Li
The occurrence of forest fires can lead to ecological damage, property loss, and human casualties. Current forest fire smoke detection methods do not sufficiently consider the characteristics of smoke with high transparency and no clear edges and have low detection accuracy,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sanderfoot, Bassing, Brusa, Emmet, Swift, Gardner
Climate change is intensifying global wildfire activity, and people and wildlife are increasingly exposed to hazardous air pollution during large-scale smoke events. Although wildfire smoke is considered a growing risk to public health, few studies have investigated the impacts…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Doherty, Geary, Jolly, Macdonald, Miritis, Watchorn, Cherry, Conner, González, Legge, Ritchie, Stawski, Dickman
Both fire and predators have strong influences on the population dynamics and behaviour of animals, and the effects of predators may either be strengthened or weakened by fire. However, knowledge of how fire drives or mediates predator–prey interactions is fragmented and has not…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steketee, Rocha, Gough, Griffin, Klupar, An, Williamson, Rowe
Fire is an important ecological disturbance that can reset ecosystems and initiate changes in plant community composition, ecosystem biogeochemistry, and primary productivity. Since herbivores rely on primary producers for food, changes in vegetation may alter plant-herbivore…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moody, Gibbs, Krueger, Mallia, Pardyjak, Kochanski, Bailey, Stoll
A microscale wildfire model, QES-Fire, that dynamically couples the fire front to microscale winds was developed using a simplified physics rate of spread (ROS) model, a kinematic plume-rise model and a mass-consistent wind solver. The model is three-dimensional and couples fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhou, Simeoni
In forest fires, the fire plume can heat tree crowns and cause the mortality of live vegetation, even though the surface fire spread is of low burning intensity. A lot of empirical or semi-empirical correlations have been built to link the fire intensity and flame height to the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Koch, Bogard, Butman, Finlay, Ebel, James, Johnston, Jorgenson, Pastick, Spencer, Striegl, Walvoord, Wickland
Climate change is thawing and potentially mobilizing vast quantities of organic carbon (OC) previously stored for millennia in permafrost soils of northern circumpolar landscapes. Climate-driven increases in fire and thermokarst may play a key role in OC mobilization by thawing…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yount, Niemi
We present a narrative account of case studies of the recovery of flowing water systems from disturbance, focusing on the investigators' conclusions about recovery time and the factors contributing to recovery. We restrict our attention to case studies in which the recovery of…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson, Barnett, Jones, Stanish, Parker
Quantifying the resilience of ecological communities to increasingly frequent and severe environmental disturbance, such as natural disasters, requires long-term and continuous observations and a research community that is itself resilient. Investigators must have reliable…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephens, Powers, Robertson, Spearing, Collier, Tich, Smith
When a wildfire strikes, it impacts entire communities. Yet it can be challenging to get communities to take the lead in becoming more prepared, and thus build lasting resilience. Guided by theoretical preparedness models, and using a case study design, this study examines the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grzesik, Hollingsworth, Ruess, Turetsky
Black spruce forest communities in boreal Alaska have undergone self-replacement succession following low to moderate severity fires for thousands of years. However, recent intensification of interior Alaska’s fire regime, particularly deeper burning of the soil organic layer,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stoof, Kettridge
The 2018-2021 wildfire seasons were a glimpse of the future: deadly damaging fires in Mediterranean regions and high fire activity outside the typical fire season, also in temperate and boreal areas. This challenge cannot be solved with the traditional mono-disciplinary approach…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp, Wilson
Wildland fire incident management teams (IMTs) require sustained and coordinated decision-making across levels of authority during dynamic and high-risk events. Trust between team members is important for maintaining the efficient flow of information and allowing team members to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ghali, Akhloufi, Souidene Mseddi
Wildfires are a worldwide natural disaster causing important economic damages and loss of lives. Experts predict that wildfires will increase in the coming years mainly due to climate change. Early detection and prediction of fire spread can help reduce affected areas and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Belval, Short, Stonesifer, Calkin
A severe outbreak of wildfire across the US Pacific Coast during August 2020 led to persistent fire activity through the end of summer. In late September, Fire Weather Outlooks predicted higher than usual fire activity into the winter in parts of California, with concomitant…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES