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The East Fork fire near Saint Mary’s, Alaska, on 9 June 2022. The blaze is within two miles of two Alaska Indigenous villages, prompting evacuations. Photograph: BLM Alaska Fire Service/AP.
Fire-related Publications (students underlined and FiWePs members in purple)
2025
Christine Waigl, & Elizabeth Fischer. (2025). Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) Fire Weather Indices from ERA5 for Arctic / Boreal Zone (1959-2024). Arctic Data Center. doi:10.18739/A2348GJ4D.
Borries-Strigle, Cecilia, Uma S Bhatt, Peter A Bieniek, Mitchell Burgard, Eric Stevens, Heidi Strader, Richard L Thoman, Alison York, Robert H Ziel 2025: On using dynamical seasonal forecasts to develop management-driven wildland fire outlooks in Alaska, Climate Services,Volume 39, 100592, ISSN 2405-8807, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2025.100592. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880725000536).
Peter A Bieniek, Christine F. Waigl, Uma S. Bhatt, Thomas J. Ballinger, Richard T. Lader, Cecilia Borries-Strigle, Joshua Hostler, Elizabeth Fischer, Mitchell Burgard, Eric Stevens, Heidi Strader, 2025: The impact of snowoff timing and associated atmospheric drivers on the Alaska wildfire season, Earth Interactions, 29, e240001, https://doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-24-0001.1.
Stories: UAF News/News Miner,
Hendricks A, Bhatt U, Bieniek P, Waigl C, Lader R, Walker D, Frost G, Raynolds M, Walsh J, Redilla K. Increasing Importance of Local Hydroclimatology During the Tundra Growing Season in the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta. Water. 2025; 17(1):90. https://doi.org/10.3390/w17010090.
2024
Ballinger, T., R.T. Lader, P.A. Bieniek, H. Strader, R. Ziel, U.S. Bhatt, C. Borries-Strigle, J. Hostler, E. Stevens, C.F. Waigl, and A. York 2024: Evaluating the Alaska Blocking Index as an indicator of wildfire potential in Alaska’s Central Eastern Interior. International Journal of Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8450 .
2023
Badola, A., Panda, S. K., Thompson, D. R., Roberts, D. A., Waigl, C. F., & Bhatt, U. S. (2023). Estimation and Validation of Sub-Pixel Needleleaf Cover Fraction in the Boreal Forest of Alaska to Aid Fire Management. Remote Sensing, 15(10), 2484.
2022
Badola, A., Panda, S., Roberts, D.A., Waigl, C.F, Jandt, R.R., and U.S. Bhatt, 2022: A novel method to simulate AVIRIS-NG hyperspectral image from Sentinel-2 image for improved vegetation/wildfire fuel mapping, boreal Alaska, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 112, 102891, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102891.
2021
Christopher William Smith, Santosh K Panda, Uma Suren Bhatt, Franz Josef Meyer, Anushree Badola, Jennifer Hrobak, 2021: Assessing wildfire burn severity and its relationship with environmental factors in the Alaskan boreal forest, Remote Sensing, 13(10), 1966; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101966
YORK, A. U. S. BHATT, E. GARGULINSKI, Z. GRABINSKI, P. JAIN, A. SOJA, R. THOMAN, S. VERAVERBEKE, AND R. ZIEL, 2021: Wildland fires in the high northern latitudes [in “State of the Climate in 2020”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 102 (8), S274–S276, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0086.1.
Badola, Anushree, Santosh K. Panda, Dar A. Roberts, Christine F. Waigl, Uma Suren Bhatt, Christopher William Smith, Randi R. Jandt, 2021: Hyperspectral Data Simulation (Sentinel-2 to AVIRIS-NG) for Improved Wildfire Fuel Mapping, Boreal Alaska, Remote Sens. 13(9), 1693; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091693,
Sampath, A., US Bhatt, PA Bieniek, R Ziel, A York, H Strader, S Alden, R Thoman, B Brettschneider, E Petrescu, P Peng, S Mitchell, 2021: Evaluation of Seasonal Forecasts for the Fire Season in Interior Alaska, Weather and Forecasting 36 (2), 601-613.
Smith, Christopher William, Santosh Panda, Uma Bhatt, Franz Meyer, 2021: Improved Boreal Forest Wildfire Fuel Type Mapping using AVIRIS-NG Hyperspectral data, Interior Alaska, Remote Sensing, 13(5), 897; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13050897, special issue titled 'Remote Sensing of Natural Forest Disturbances', pdf.
Bhatt, Uma S., Richard T. Lader, John E. Walsh, Peter A. Bieniek, Richard Thoman, Matthew Berman, Cecilia Borries-Strigle, Kristi Bulock, Jonathan Chriest, Micah Hahn, Amy S. Hendricks, Randi Jandt, Joseph Little, Daniel McEvoy, Chris Moore, T. Scott Rupp, Jennifer Schmidt, Eric Stevens, Heidi Strader, James White, Christine Waigl, Alison York, and Robert Ziel, 2021: Emerging Anthropogenic influences on the Southcentral Alaska Temperature and Precipitation Extremes and Related Fires in 2019, Land 2021, 10, 82. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010082 , special issue titled 'Fire in the Earth System: Humans and Nature'.
2020
York, A., U. S. Bhatt, E. Gargulinski, Z. Grabinski, P. Jain, A. Soja, R. L. Thoman, and R. Ziel, 2020: Wildland Fire in High Northern Latitudes. Arctic Report Card 2020, R. L. Thoman, J. Richter-Menge, and M. L. Druckenmiller, Eds., DOI: 10.25923/2gef-3964.
Ziel, R.H.; Bieniek, P.A.; Bhatt, U.S.; Strader, H.; Rupp, T.S.; York, A., 2020: A Comparison of Fire Weather Indices with MODIS Fire Days for the Natural Regions of Alaska. Forests 2020, 11, 516.
2018
A. York, U. Bhatt, R. Thoman, AND R. Ziel, 2018: Wildland fire in Boreal and Arctic North America —The Arctic [in “State of the Climate in 2017”]. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99 (8), S167–S169, doi:10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1.
2017
York, A., U. Bhatt, R. Thoman, and R. Ziel, 2017: Wildland Fire in High Latitudes [in Arctic Report Card 2017], http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card.
2016
JL Partain, S Alden, US Bhatt, PA Bieniek, BR Brettschneider, RT Lader, PQ Olsson, TS Rupp, H Strader, RL Thoman, JE Walsh, AD York, and RH Ziel, 2016: An assessment of the role of anthropogenic climate change in the Alaska fire season of 2015, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Special Report Explaining Extreme Events of 2015 from a Climate Perspective, S14-S18 pp.
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