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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Yang
A dimensional analysis was performed to correlate the fuel bed fire rate of spread data previously reported in the literature. Under wind condition, six pertinent dimensionless groups were identified, namely dimensionless fire spread rate, dimensionless fuel particle size, fuel…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Houle, Kane, Kasischke, Gibson, Turetsky
We measured organic-layer (OL) recovery and carbon stocks in dead woody debris a decade after wildfire in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) forests of interior Alaska. Previous study at these research plots has shown the strong role that landscape position plays in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Chen, Hayes, McGuire
Burn area and the frequency of extreme fire events have been increasing during recent decades in North America, and this trend is expected to continue over the 21st century. While many aspects of the North American carbon budget have been intensively studied, the net…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Schultz, Heil, Hoelzemann, Spessa, Thonicke, Goldammer, Held, Pereira, van het Bolscher
In many regions of the world, fires are an important and highly variable source of air pollutant emissions, and they thus constitute a significant if not dominant factor controlling the interannual variability of the atmospheric composition. This paper describes the 41-year…
Year: 2008
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

Black, Miller, Landres
The goal of this project was to develop methods to help wildland fire managers design long term, landscape scale management plans. Although wildland fire managers have a full spectrum of strategies available for reducing fuels, they lack tools for applying these strategies at…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The relief features or surface configuration of an area. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Topography.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Weather describes short-term variations in the atmosphere from hot to cold, wet to dry, calm to stormy, clear to cloudy. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Weather.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Any material that burns. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Fuel.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire behavior is the way a fire acts - how and when fuels ignite, flames develop, and fire spreads as influenced by its interaction with fuel, weather, and topography. Read more at Fire Facts: What is? Fire Behavior.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hoadley, Ferguson, Goodrick, Bradshaw, Werth
Numerical weather models are being relied on more and more to develop fire weather forecasts and predict fire behavior and fire danger. Their accuracy in these applications, however, has heretofore been unknown. The purpose of this project was to study model predictions during…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jain, Wang, Flannigan
We have constructed a fire weather climatology over North America from 1979 to 2015 using the North American Regional Reanalysis dataset and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. We tested for the presence of trends in potential fire season length, based on a…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
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

When it comes to unnecessary risk and exposure to heat, smoke, fatigue, and noise, could you be a “Bad Ass” or a “Dumb Ass”? Maybe it’s time you put a pinch of practical in your tactical pause. George Broyles, Fire and Fuels Project Leader for the U.S. Forest Service’s National…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

What happens when you are “all in” in your wildland fire service job and you suddenly get the boot—whether through mandatory retirement, freak accident, family demands, or any other “involuntary separation”? “Why Identity Matters” is the focus of this issue. Page 1 provides…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bilbao, Del Ser, Perfecto, Salcedo-Sanz, Portilla-Figueras
Nowadays there is a global concern with the growing frequency and magnitude of natural disasters, many of them associated with climate change at a global scale. When tackled during a stringent economic era, the allocation of resources to efficiently deal with such disaster…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jan, Nanda, He, Liu
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have experienced phenomenal growth over the past decade. They are typically deployed in human-inaccessible terrains to monitor and collect time-critical and delay-sensitive events. There have been several studies on the use of WSN in different…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hesseln, Loomis, Rideout, González-Cabán, Berry, Helmbrecht, Homik, Rodriguez, Sullivan
The fire suppression policy on public lands during the last century in the United States has resulted in increased fuel loadings, necessitating the use of prescribed fire and mechanical treatments to decrease hazardous fuels and risks of catastrophic wildfire. The effects of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson, Betz
This study focuses on the broad topic of public values, attitudes, and behaviors toward wildfire. More specifically, this study is intended to contribute to development of a comprehensive understanding of public values, attitudes and behaviors and to understanding public…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Day, Guches, Heppler, Lentz, Lococo, MacGregor, Plattes, Shetler, Simos, Strohmeier, Wordell
A critical operational need exists for dispatch coordinators, fire managers and agency administrators to determine preparedness levels’ on a national, multi-agency basis. The preparedness planning processes now in place resulted from mandates and direction following the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Shindler, Brunson, Stankey, Starkey
Interdisciplinary research is essential to developing scientifically sound and publicly acceptable solutions to wildland fuel problems on federal lands across the United States. Currently, numerous fuel reduction strategies and public outreach activities are underway on federal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Zhu, Fleming
When this project was proposed, there were no good mapping tools to relate information collected on field inventory plots with remotely sensed imagery, a technique that was needed in order to produce useful wildland fuel data. The project was envisioned to develop and test an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fried, Winter, Vogt
A conceptual model of how people living at the wildland-urban interface evaluate acceptability of three fuel management approaches (prescribed fire, mechanical treatment, and enforcement of defensible space ordinances) was developed from focus group interviews, and a set of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Alexander
[From lead-in] Although there are many other fire behavior knowledge gaps and research needs that I could list here (e.g., development of models or guidelines for predicting fire vortex generation, plume-dominated or convectively dominated fires and safety zone size/…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Vaidyanathan, Yip, Garbe
Wildfire episodes pose a significant public health threat in the United States. Adverse health impacts associated with wildfires occur near the burn area as well as in places far downwind due to wildfire smoke exposures. Health effects associated with exposure to particulate…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES