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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Coen, Schroeder
Large wildland fires are complex, dynamic phenomena that can encounter a wide range of fuels, terrain, and weather during a single event. They can produce intense firewhirls that snap mature trees and generate blowups. They can send 300-foot (100-m) bursts of flame shooting…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goodrick, Brown, Jolly
In a pair of review papers, Potter (2012a, 2012b) summarized the significant fire weather research findings over about the past hundred years. Our scientific understanding of wildland fire-atmosphere interactions has evolved: from simple correlations supporting the notion that…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werth
Eyewitness accounts in journals and diaries have documented the relationship between weather and large wildland fire for over a hundred years. Even a hundred years ago, observers recognized short periods of up to several days in every fire season when wildland fuels were…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hockenberry
A Red Flag Warning (RFW) is the fundamental fire-weather-warning product of the National Weather Service. Various publications and online meeting notes show that RFWs originated in the late 1950s to early 1960s. Early sources defined the RFW as an indication of weather expected…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sharples, McRae, Simpson, Fox-Hughes, Clements
The presence of mountains-or even hills-in the path of an airmass can have important effects on the characteristics of the air. Temperature, humidity, wind speed, and wind direction can all vary greatly across complex terrain, and the variation of any of these factors will…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Charney, Potter
Convection and downbursts are connected meteorological phenomena with the potential to affect fire behavior and thereby alter the evolution of a wildland fire. Meteorological phenomena related to convection and down-bursts are often discussed in the context of fire behavior and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heffernan
The role of meteorology in wild-land fire management is varied. It takes an entire interagency team of highly qualified scientists to fill the needs of the wildland fire community. Employees of several Federal agencies, as well as people in the research community, have fire-…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg
Megafires, individual fires that burn more than 100,000 acres, are on the rise in the western United States - the direct result of unintentional yet massive changes we've brought to the forests through a century of misguided management. What steps can we take to avoid further…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cova, Dennison, Drews
Improving community resiliency to wildfire is a challenging problem in the face of ongoing development in fire-prone regions. Evacuation and shelter-in-place are the primary options for reducing wildfire casualties, but it can be difficult to determine which option offers the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson, McCaffrey, Toman
Throughout the late 19th century and most of the 20th century, risks associated with wildfire were addressed by suppressing fires as quickly as possible. However, by the 1960s, it became clear that fire exclusion policies were having adverse effects on ecological health, as well…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall, Brunson
Land managers use various methods to reduce fuel levels. The two most common fuel treatment methods include forest thinning and prescribed fire. The pace of implementing such fuel treatments has increased over the last several decades. Scientific studies of fuel treatments…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pierce, Val Martin, Heald
Emissions of aerosols and gases from fires have been shown to adversely affect US air quality at local to regional scales as well as downwind regions far away from the source. In addition, smoke from fires negatively affects humans, ecosystems, and climate. Recent observations…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McMullen, De Leenheer, Tonkin, Lytle
Disturbances cause high mortality in populations while simultaneously enhancing population growth by improving habitats. These countervailing effects make it difficult to predict population dynamics following disturbance events. To address this challenge, we derived a novel form…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Sullivan
Generalised statements about the state of fire science are often used to provide a simplified context for new work. This paper explores the validity of five frequently repeated statements regarding empirical and physical models for predicting wildland fire behaviour. For…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beverly
In black spruce forests characterised by high-intensity crown fires, early detection and containment of fires while they are small is crucial for averting progression to fire intensities that exceed suppression capabilities. Fire behaviour conditions encountered during initial…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huang, Rein
Smouldering fires in peatland are different from the flames in wildland fires. Smouldering peat fire is slow, low-temperature and more persistent, releasing large amounts of smoke into the atmosphere. In this work, we experimentally and computationally investigate the vertical…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kumar, Wu, Huang, Liao, Kaplan
We estimate the global Hg wildfire emissions for the 2000s and the potential impacts from the 2000–2050 changes in climate, land use and land cover and Hg anthropogenic emissions by combining statistical analysis with global data on vegetation type and coverage as well as fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Barnes, Jandt
We propose to expand the Northwest Fire Research Clearinghouse (FIREHouse) (see http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/ fera/firehouse) to include projects relevant specifically to fire management in Alaska. FIREHouse was originally funded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in 2003 (…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Nelson
Vegetation structure, including forest canopy height, is an important input variable to fire behavior modeling systems for simulating wildfire behavior. As such, forest canopy height is one of a nationwide suite of products generated by the LANDFIRE program. In the past,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prato
Applying fuel reduction treatments (FRTs) to forested landscapes can alleviate undesirable changes in wildfire benefits and costs due to climate change. A conceptual framework was developed for determining the preferred FRTs across planning periods, adapting FRTs to future…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Benali, Russo, Sá, Pinto, Price, Koutsias, Pereira
Each wildfire has its own “history”, burns under specific conditions and leads to unique environmental impacts. Information on where and when it has started and its duration is important to improve understanding on the dynamics of individual wildfires. This information is…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Toman, Kruger, Stankey
This report provides a detailed summary of research conducted in multiple forest communities throughout the U.S. by forest social scientists at Oregon State University. Project work was supported by the USDA/USDI Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in cooperation with the USDA…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Renschler, Elliot
Objectives: 1. Develop a database for soils and vegetation in formation based on the existing nationwide WEPP climate, soils and management specifically to support fuel management activities. 2. Transfer the GeoWEPP tool from ArcView (widely distributed earlier version of a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Youngblood, Agee, Barbour, Boerner, Edminster, Fettig, Fiedler, Haase, Hart, Keeley, Knapp, Lehmkuhl, McIver, Otrosina, Outcalt, Skinner, Stephens, Waldrop, Yaussy, Zack
The national Fire and Fire Surrogate Study (FFS) was designed to develop and provide managers with better information on the consequences of alternative fuel reduction treatments in forest ecosystems. The study was initiated in early March 2000 with support by the USDA/USDI…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Hoadley, Larkin
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) provides a web interface to a twice-daily, 40-year database of wind speed, mixing height and ventilation index for the United States at a spatial resolution of approximately 5km (Ferguson et al. 2003). This provides smoke…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES