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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ottmar, Brown, French, Larkin
This document presents the study plan for the Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE). FASMEE is a large-scale interagency effort to (1) identify the critical measurements necessary to improve operational wildland fire and smoke prediction systems, (2) collect…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell, Dennison, Butler
Escape routes are essential components of wildland firefighter safety, providing pre-defined pathways to a safety zone. Among the many factors that affect travel rates along an escape route, landscape conditions such as slope, low-lying vegetation density, and ground surface…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rueda, Godoy, Hawkins
Aim: Gymnosperms do not follow a latitudinal diversity gradient across the Northern Hemisphere but are influenced by geography at continental scales. Tolerance to physiological aridity is thought to be the main driver of this distribution, yet through evolutionary time conifers…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fraser, van der Sluijs, Hall
Wildfires are a dominant disturbance to boreal forests, and in North America, they typically cause widespread tree mortality. Forest fire burn severity is often measured at a plot scale using the Composite Burn Index (CBI), which was originally developed as a means of assigning…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waigl
This research addresses improvements to the detection and characterization of active wildfires in Alaska with satellite-based sensors. The VIIRS I-band Fire Detection Algorithm for High Latitudes (VIFDAHL) was developed and evaluated against existing active fire products from…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alonzo, Morton, Cook, Andersen, Babcock, Pattison
Fire in the boreal region is the dominant agent of forest disturbance with direct impacts on ecosystem structure, carbon cycling, and global climate. Global and biome-scale impacts are mediated by burn severity, measured as loss of forest canopy and consumption of the soil…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woo, Hui, Gan, Kim
The May 2016 wildfire in Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, Canada—the costliest wildfire disaster in Canadian history—led to an areawide evacuation by road and air. Traffic count and flight data were used to assess the characteristics of the evacuation, including estimates of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Polashenski, Soja, Marelle, Casey, Choi, Raut, Wiedinmyer, Emmons, Fast, Pelon, Law, Flanner, Dibb
Black carbon (BC) concentrations observed in 22 snowpits sampled in the northwest sector of the Greenland ice sheet in April 2014 have allowed us to identify a strong and widespread BC aerosol deposition event, which was dated to have accumulated in the pits from two snow storms…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Long, Peterson, Nelson
LANDFIRE (LF), Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools, is a joint program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), with involvement of the United States…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duff, Keane, Penman, Tolhurst
Wildland fires are a function of properties of the fuels that sustain them. These fuels are themselves a function of vegetation, and share the complexity and dynamics of natural systems. Worldwide, the requirement for solutions to the threat of fire to human values has resulted…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waigl, Stuefer, Prakash, Ichoku
Fire products from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) imagery provide timely information for wildfire detection, monitoring, and characterization at the global scale. However, in Alaskan boreal forest fires…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Freeman, Moisen, Frescino
Scientists and statisticians working for the Rocky Mountain Research Station have created a software package that simplifies and automates many of the processes needed for converting models into maps. This software package, called ModelMap, has helped a variety of specialists…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Fire Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations Guide standardizes the processes and procedures for interagency use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), including pilot inspections and approvals. In support of fire management goals and objectives, the aviation community…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The significant wildland fire potential forecasts included in this outlook represent the cumulative forecasts of the ten Geographic Area Predictive Services units and the National Predictive Services unit.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Healey, Yang, Stehman, Brewer, Brooks, Gorelick, Huang, Hughes, Kennedy, Loveland, Moisen, Schroeder, Vogelmann, Woodcock, Yang, Zhu
Disturbance is a critical ecological process in forested systems, and disturbance maps are important for understanding forest dynamics. Landsat data are a key remote sensing dataset for monitoring forest disturbance and there recently has been major growth in the development of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder, Schleeweis, Moisen, Toney, Cohen, Freeman, Yang, Huang
In light of Earth's changing climate and growing human population, there is an urgent need to improve monitoring of natural and anthropogenic disturbances which effect forests' ability to sequester carbon and provide other ecosystem services. In this study, a two-step modeling…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jin, Yang, Zhu, Homer
Monitoring and mapping land cover changes are important ways to support evaluation of the status and transition of ecosystems. The Alaska National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2001 was the first 30-m resolution baseline land cover product of the entire state derived from circa…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hua, Shao
Forest wildfires pose significant and growing threats to human safety, wildlife habitat, regional economies and global climate change. It is crucial that forest fires be subject to timely and accurate monitoring by forest fire managers and other stake-holders. Measurement by…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keim, DeWitt, Fitzpatrick, Jenni
Quantifying abundance and distribution of plant species can be difficult because data are often inflated with zero values due to rarity or absence from many ecosystems. Terrestrial fruticose lichens (Cladonia and Cetraria spp.) occupy a narrow ecological niche and have been…
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
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
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
McBride, Sanchez-Trigueros, Carver, Watson, Stumpff, Matt, Borrie
Traditional knowledge about fire and its effects held by indigenous people, who are connected to specific landscapes, holds promise for informing contemporary fire and fuels management strategies and augmenting knowledge and information derived from western science. In practice…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS