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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lauer, Montgomery, Dietterich
Fire spread on forested landscapes depends on vegetation conditions across the landscape that affect the fire arrival probability and forest stand value. Landowners can control some forest characteristics that facilitate fire spread, and when a single landowner controls the…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp, Rabung, Wilson, Toman
In the United States, many decision support tools exist to provide fire managers with weather and fire behaviour information to inform and facilitate risk-based decision-making. Relatively little is known about how managers use these tools in the field and when and how they may…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West invites you to join a keynote on wildfire mitigation in the age of COVID-19. This event is the second in a series of talks that adapt information they had originally hoped to cover in their March Workshop on Wildfire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Suzuki, Manzello
Large outdoor fires are one of the prominent fire problems in the world. Spot fires, caused by firebrands, are known as a key mechanism of rapid fire spread. Firebrands ignite unburned fuels far ahead of the fire front. In large outdoor fires, firebrands are thought to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dhall, Dhasade, V.K, Kulkarni
Natural disastrous events are part and parcel of our times and do occur when we least expect it to strike us. Disasters which take place in the vicinity of human livelihood due to natural causes, such as forest fires, tsunami, earthquakes, floods, storms etc., the consequence or…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Wooster, He, Zhang
The Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR) now operates concurrently onboard the European Sentinel-3A and 3B satellites. Its observations are expected ultimately to become the main global source of active fire (AF) detections and fire radiative power (FRP)…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coop, Parks, Stevens-Rumann, Crausbay, Higuera, Hurteau, Tepley, Whitman, Assal, Collins, Davis, Dobrowski, Falk, Fornwalt, Fulé, Harvey, Kane, Littlefield, Margolis, North, Parisien, Prichard, Rodman
Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience. Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed sources, warmer and drier postfire climate, or short-interval reburning. A potential outcome of the loss of…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Wonkka, Wedin, Twidwell
Wildfire activity has surged in North America’s temperate grassland biome. Like many biomes, this system has undergone drastic land-use change over the last century; however, how various land-use types contribute to wildfire patterns in grassland systems is unclear. We determine…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schleeweis, Moisen, Schroeder, Toney, Freeman, Goward, Huang, Dungan
National monitoring of forestlands and the processes causing canopy cover loss, be they abrupt or gradual, partial or stand clearing, temporary (disturbance) or persisting (deforestation), are necessary at fine scales to inform management, science and policy. This study utilizes…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kganyago, Shikwambana
This study analysed the characteristics of the recent (2018-2019) wildfires that occurred in the USA, Brazil, and Australia using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) active fires (AF), fire radiative power (FRP, MW) and burned area (BA) products. Meteorological…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Inglis, Vukomanovic
Fire management in protected areas faces mounting obstacles as climate change alters disturbance regimes, resources are diverted to fighting wildfires, and more people live along the boundaries of parks. Evidence-based prescribed fire management and improved communication with…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Henderson
As we enter the wildfire season in the northern hemisphere, the potential for a dangerous interaction between SARS-CoV-2 and smoke pollution should be recognized and acknowledged. This is challenging because the public health threat of COVID-19 is immediate and clear, whereas…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Cascio, Nootz
This webinar from the APHA Center for Climate, Health and Equity discussed wildfire smoke and its public health impacts with a focus on health equity. Presenters:
Described the public health impacts of wildfire smoke.
Identified the ways in which climate change and health equity…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Wilmore
The Drought Code (DC) is a moisture code of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System underlain by a hydrological water balance model in which drying occurs in a negative exponential pattern with a relatively long timelag. The model derives from measurements from an…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Wotton, Woolford, Martell, Flannigan
Spring fire activity has increased in parts of Canada, particularly in the west, prompting fire managers to seek indicators of potential activity before the fire season starts. The overwintering adjustment of the Canadian Fire Weather Index System’s Drought Code (DC) is a method…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
The Drought Code (DC) was developed as part of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System in the early 1970s to represent a deep column of soil that dries relatively slowly. Unlike most other fire danger indices or codes that operate on gravimetric moisture content and use…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Picotte, Bhattarai, Howard, Lecker, Epting, Quayle, Benson, Nelson
Background: The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) program has been providing the fire science community with large fire perimeter and burn severity data for the past 14 years. As of October 2019, 22 969 fires have been mapped by the MTBS program and are available on the…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Koopmans, Fyfe, Eadie, Pelletier
Background: With an increase in wildfire activity across the globe and growing numbers of personnel involved each year, it is necessary to explore the health impacts of occupational exposure to wildfires and the practices and policies that can be implemented to mitigate these…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Demange, Gabrel, Haddad, Murat
The location of shelters in different areas threatened by wildfires is one of the possible ways to reduce fatalities in a context of an increasing number of catastrophic and severe wildfires. These shelters will enable the population in the area to be protected in case of fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marks, Sol, Domitrovich, West, Ruby
Introduction
Wildland firefighters (WLFF) work long hours in extreme environments, resulting in high daily total energy expenditure. Increasing work-shift eating episodes and/or providing rations that promote convenient eating has shown augmented self-selected work output, as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strahan
The literature commonly considers householders confronted by a bushfire event who ‘wait and see’ before taking protective action as engaging in decisional delay. This paper proposes an alternative way of interpreting householders' delay in taking protective action based on…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jiang, Yang, Liu, Qian, Zhang, Wang, Li, Wang, Lu
Aerosols emitted from wildfires could significantly affect global climate through perturbing global radiation balance. In this study, the Community Earth System Model with prescribed daily fire aerosol emissions is used to investigate fire aerosols’ impacts on global climate…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garner, Iwasko, Jewel, Charboneau, Dodd, Zontos
Weather fatalities for all age groups were examined for the period 1996–2018 using NOAA Storm Data. Vulnerabilities due to limited mobility that inhibited evacuation from a hazardous environment were observed for the very young and the very old. Those situations included heat-…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bieniek, Bhatt, York, Walsh, Lader, Strader, Ziel, Jandt, Thoman
Lightning is a key driver of wildfire activity in Alaska. Quantifying its historical variability and trends has been challenging because of changes in the observational network, but understanding historical and possible future changes in lightning activity is important for fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Klimas, Hiesl, Hagan, Park
This review examines the impact of prescribed fire on the water quality variables (a) sediment load and (b) limiting macronutrients in forested environments globally. We aim to characterize the forested environments subject to prescribed fire, to discuss factors of the fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES