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...
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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: Strahan
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The effects of freestream flow on fire spread behaviors of a discrete wooden fuel array were studied. The spacing between fuel elements was varied, and the flame spread behavior under 1, 2, and 3 m/s forced flow velocities was investigated. The fastest...
Person: Di Cristina, Kozhumal, Simeoni, Skowronski, Rangwala, Im
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
There is a strong need to increase the basic understanding of the propagation mechanisms in wildfires to improve the scientific tools needed for firefighting and fire prevention. This study focuses on the fire spread mechanisms by radiation. Three...
Person: Schneider, Betting, Patterson, Skowronski, Simeoni
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Recent wildland fire disasters have attracted interest from a variety of disciplines seeking to reduce impacts of fire on people and natural resources. Architecture, insurance and reinsurance, city and county government, and engineering sectors have...
Person: Finney
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
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’...
Person: Jiang, Yang, Liu, Qian, Zhang, Wang, Li, Wang, Lu
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
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...
Person: Garner, Iwasko, Jewel, Charboneau, Dodd, Zontos
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
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...
Person: Bieniek, Bhatt, York, Walsh, Lader, Strader, Ziel, Jandt, Thoman
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Creeping fire spread under opposed airflow is a classic fundamental fire research problem involving heat transfer, fluid dynamics, chemical kinetics, and is strongly dependent on environmental factors. Persistent research over the last 50 years has...
Person: Huang, Gao
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
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...
Person: Klimas, Hiesl, Hagan, Park
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
In this study, we use simulations from seven global vegetation models to provide the first multi‐model estimate of fire impacts on global tree cover and the carbon cycle under current climate and anthropogenic land use conditions, averaged for the...
Person: Lasslop, Hantson, Harrison, Bachelet, Burton, Forkel, Forrest, Li, Melton, Yue, Archibald, Scheiter, Arneth, Hickler, Sitch
Year: 2020
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES