Fire smoke is a major contributor to both particulate matter (PM) and ozone exposure in urban centers. Epidemiological, clinical, and toxicological studies have demonstrated a casual relationship between these pollutants and cardiovascular and...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Reich, Broome, Cope, Fann, Johnston, Morgan, Rappold
Year: 2019
Resource Group: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sixty percent of family forest ownerships in the United States of America (USA) own between 0.4 and 4.0 ha (1–9 ac). Yet, little is known about this segment of family forest ownerships because they are often excluded from data collection or analyses....
Person: Snyder, Butler, Markowski-Lindsay
Year: 2019
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Numerical simulations of laboratory-scale experiments, with no wind imposed, were performed for fuel bed slopes ranging from 0° to 45°. The implementation of a vertical symmetry plane (SP) placed, span-wise, along the middle of the computational domain...
Person: Sánchez-Monroy, Mell, Torres-Arenas, Butler
Year: 2019
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forest fires threaten a large part of the world's forests, communities, and industrial plants, triggering technological accidents (Natechs). Forest fire modelling with respect to contributing spatial parameters is one of the well-known ways not only to...
Person: Naderpour, Rizeei, Khakzad, Pradhan
Year: 2019
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) was designed to store and archive wildland fuel characteristics within fuelbeds, defined as the inherent physical characteristics of fuels that contribute to fire behavior and effects. The FCCS...
Person: Prichard, Andreu, Ottmar, Eberhardt
Year: 2019
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
This video describes what fuel loading is, how it can be measured, and fuel load characteristics in various vegetation types.
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Year: 2019
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wildland firefighters are directly exposed to elevated levels of wildland fire (WF) smoke. Although studies demonstrate WF smoke exposure is associated with lung function changes, few studies that use invasive sample collection methods have been...
Person: Wu, Adetona, Song, Naeher, Adetona
Year: 2019
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smoke exposure data among U.S. wildland firefighters for carbon monoxide, respirable particulate and respirable crystalline silica are presented from a field surveillance program between 2009 and 2012. Models to predict fireline-average exposure to...
Person: Reinhardt, Broyles
Year: 2019
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The incidence of large, uncontained wildfires in North America has increased in recent years, significantly impacting both urban and agriculturally-focused areas. The physical damage and health pressures left in the wake of uncontrolled fires has...
Person: Corrieri, Roy, Rose-Davison, Roy
Year: 2019
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are extremely destructive disasters that cause significant loss of lives, forest cover and wildlife. This is due to their uncontrolled, erratic, rapid spread and behaviour. The incidence of wildfires is expected to increase worldwide because...
Person: Kaur, Sood
Year: 2019
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES