Although conflagrations in lower latitudes get more attention, wildfires across the high north are affecting the planet even more.
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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: Jandt, York
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire spread requires fuel particles heated to ignition but the roles of radiation and convection heat transfer have not before been examined in detail. This paper reports on laboratory experiments and numerical modeling of wood particle response...
Person: Cohen, Finney
Year: 2022
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
• Effective wildland fire response and suppression are critical for reducing the size of frequent and severe wildfires, thereby reducing the risk of post-fire conversion to invasive annual grass-dominated plant communities.
• Wildland...
Person: Wollstein, O'Connor, Gear, Hoagland
Year: 2022
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
The tapestry of life on Earth is unraveling as humans increasingly dominate and transform natural ecosystems. Scarce resources and dwindling time force conservationists to target their actions to stem the loss of biodiversity-a pragmatic approach,...
Person: Olson, Dinerstein, Wikramanayake, Burgess, Powell, Underwood, D'amico, Itoua, Strand, Morrison, Loucks, Allnutt, Ricketts, Kura, Lamoreux, Wettengel, Hedao, Kassem
Year: 2001
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cloud-to-ground lightning and near-surface fire weather control wildfire occurrence in Arctic tundra
Wildfire is a dominant disturbance agent in pan-Arctic tundra and can significantly impact terrestrial carbon balance and ecosystem functioning. Interactions between fire and climate change can enhance their impacts on the Arctic. However, the driving...
Person: He, Loboda, Chen, French
Year: 2022
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Earth's rapidly warming climate is propelling us towards an increasingly fire-prone future. Currently, knowledge of the extent and characteristics of animal mortality rates during fire remains rudimentary, hindering our ability to predict how animal...
Person: Jolly, Dickman, Doherty, van Eeden, Geary, Legge, Woinarski, Nimmo
Year: 2022
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
This seminar is part of Pennsylvania State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Fall 2021 EarthTalks Series: Fire in the Earth System(link is external). Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are...
Person: McWethy
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES
This seminar is part of Pennsylvania State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Fall 2021 EarthTalks Series: Fire in the Earth System(link is external). Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are...
Person: Thompson
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fire activity and severity is increasing in the high northern latitudes, including burning landscapes long thought to be "fire resistant." Across the Pan-Arctic, smoke impacts from lengthening fire seasons in the boreal and the Arctic mean new public...
Person: McCarty
Year: 2021
Resource Group: Media
Source: FRAMES
This Perspective highlights the lingering consequences of nuclear disasters by examining the risks posed by wildfires that rerelease radioactive fallout originally deposited into the environment by accidents at nuclear power plants or testing of...
Person: Eriksen
Year: 2022
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES