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A climatic dipole drives short- and long-term patterns of postfire forest recovery in the western United States

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

A comparison of statistical downscaling methods suited for wildfire applications

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A dataset on human perception of and response to wildfire smoke

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt

scientific article

Agroecological factors correlated to soil DNA concentrations of Rhizoctonia in dryland wheat production zones of Washington state, USA.

scientific article published in July 2014

An Evaluation of Multiscalar Drought Indices in Nevada and Eastern California

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An integrated dataset for stakeholder perceptions of environmental change and instrumented measures of change

scientific article published on 27 October 2018

Anthropogenic Influence on Recent Severe Autumn Fire Weather in the West Coast of the United States

scientific article published on 05 February 2022

Anthropogenic climate change impacts exacerbate summer forest fires in California

scientific article published in 2023

Assessing the effectiveness of riparian restoration projects using Landsat and precipitation data from the cloud-computing application ClimateEngine.org

scientific article published in 2018

Camouflage mismatch in seasonal coat color due to decreased snow duration.

scientific article

Changes in Fire Activity in Africa from 2002 to 2016 and Their Potential Drivers

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Changes in climatic water balance drive downhill shifts in plant species' optimum elevations

scientific article

Classification of Regional Climate Variability in the State of California

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Climate

chapter in the 2013 report "Climate Change in the Northwest"

Climate Change in Western US Deserts: Potential for Increased Wildfire and Invasive Annual Grasses

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Climate Contributors to Forest Mosaics: Ecological Persistence Following Wildfire

scholarly article by Crystal A. Kolden et al published August 2015 in Northwest Science

Climate and very large wildland fires in the contiguous western USA

Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

scientific article

Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States

scientific article published on 3 October 2023

Climate extreme and its linkage to regional drought over Idaho, USA

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Climate impacts on agricultural land use in the USA: the role of socio-economic scenarios

Climate influences on whitebark pine mortality from mountain pine beetle in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Climatic influences on interannual variability in regional burn severity across western US forests

Comparing mechanistic and empirical approaches to modeling the thermal niche of almond

scientific article

Compound Extremes Drive the Western Oregon Wildfires of September 2020

scientific article published on 22 March 2021

Contrasting the role of human- and lightning-caused wildfires on future fire regimes on a Central Oregon landscape

scientific article published in 2021

Contribution of Cutoff Lows to Precipitation across the United States*

scholarly article by John T. Abatzoglou published April 2016 in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2014

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Contribution of large-scale midlatitude disturbances to hourly precipitation extremes in the United States

scholarly article by Renaud Barbero et al published 27 February 2018 in Climate Dynamics

Controls on interannual variability in lightning-caused fire activity in the western US

County-level climate change information to support decision-making on working lands

scholarly article by Emile Elias et al published 28 August 2017 in Climatic Change

Defining extreme wildland fires using geospatial and ancillary metrics

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Designing ecological climate change impact assessments to reflect key climatic drivers

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Development of Soil Moisture Drought Index to Characterize Droughts

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Development of gridded surface meteorological data for ecological applications and modelling

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Development of high-resolution (250 m) historical daily gridded air temperature data using reanalysis and distributed sensor networks for the US Northern Rocky Mountains

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Diagnosing Santa Ana Winds in Southern California with Synoptic-Scale Analysis

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Drought characteristics' role in widespread aspen forest mortality across Colorado, USA.

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Effect of Reduced Summer Cloud Shading on Evaporative Demand and Wildfire in Coastal Southern California

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Effect of climate on the distribution of Fusarium spp. causing crown rot of wheat in the Pacific Northwest of the United States

scientific article published in November 2013

Effects of climate change on snowpack and fire potential in the western USA

scholarly article by Diana R. Gergel et al published 1 February 2017 in Climatic Change

Effects of fire radiative energy density dose on Pinus contorta and Larix occidentalis seedling physiology and mortality

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Efficacy of the global protected area network is threatened by disappearing climates and potential transboundary range shifts

scientific article published on 25 April 2022

Empirical downscaling of daily minimum air temperature at very fine resolutions in complex terrain

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Evaluating climate model simulations of drought for the northwestern United States

scholarly article by John T. Abatzoglou & David E. Rupp published 21 March 2017 in International Journal of Climatology

Evaluating opportunities for an increased role of winter crops as adaptation to climate change in dryland cropping systems of the U.S. Inland Pacific Northwest

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Evaluation of CMIP5 20thcentury climate simulations for the Pacific Northwest USA

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Expanded Potential Growing Region and Yield Increase for Agave americana with Future Climate

scientific article published in 2021

Extent of the rain-snow transition zone in the western U.S. under historic and projected climate

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Fire Behavior, Weather, and Burn Severity of the 2007 Anaktuvuk River Tundra Fire, North Slope, Alaska

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Fire Refugia: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter for Global Change?

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Fire Regions as Environmental Niches: A New Paradigm to Define Potential Fire Regimes in Africa and Australia

scientific article published in 2022

Fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of the western United States

scientific article

Forest structure and species traits mediate projected recruitment declines in western US tree species

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Future climate risks from stress, insects and fire across US forests

scientific article published in 2022

Future increases in lightning ignition efficiency and wildfire occurrence expected from drier fuels in boreal forest ecosystems of western North America

scientific article published in 2022

Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change

scientific article published in 2022

Global climatology of synoptically‐forced downslope winds

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests

Global patterns of interannual climate-fire relationships

scientific article published on 24 August 2018

How climate change and fire exclusion drive wildfire regimes at actionable scales

scientific article

How does water yield respond to mountain pine beetle infestation in a semiarid forest?

How much influence does landscape-scale physiography have on air temperature in a mountain environment?

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How will climate change affect wildland fire severity in the western US?

scholarly article by Sean A Parks et al published 22 February 2016 in Environmental Research Letters

Human exposure and sensitivity to globally extreme wildfire events

scholarly article by David M. J. S. Bowman et al published 6 February 2017 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Human-Related Ignitions Increase the Number of Large Wildfires across U.S. Ecoregions

scholarly article published 27 January 2018

Human-environmental drivers and impacts of the globally extreme 2017 Chilean fires

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Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States

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Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests.

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Improved Bias Correction Techniques for Hydrological Simulations of Climate Change*

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Increased frequency of and population exposure to extreme heat index days in the United States during the 21st century

scientific article published in 2019

Increasing Synchronous Fire Danger in Forests of the Western United States

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Increasing co-occurrence of fine particulate matter and ground-level ozone extremes in the western United States

scientific article published on 05 January 2022

Indicators of Climate Change in Idaho: An Assessment Framework for Coupling Biophysical Change and Social Perceptiona

scholarly article by P. Zion Klos et al published July 2015 in Weather, Climate and Society

Influence of the Madden–Julian Oscillation on Summertime Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity over the Continental United States

scholarly article by John T. Abatzoglou & Timothy J. Brown published October 2009 in Monthly Weather Review

Influence of the PNA on declining mountain snowpack in the Western United States

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Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Limitations and utilisation of Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity products for assessing wildfire severity in the USA

scholarly article by Crystal A. Kolden et al published 2015 in International Journal of Wildland Fire

Meteorological and geographical factors associated with dry lightning in central and northern California

scientific article published in 2022

Methods to assess between-system adaptations to climate change: Dryland wheat systems in the Pacific Northwest United States

scholarly article by John M. Antle et al published February 2018 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Microclimatic buffering in forests of the future: the role of local water balance

scientific article published in 2018

Multi-scalar influence of weather and climate on very large-fires in the Eastern United States

Multivariate climate departures have outpaced univariate changes across global lands

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Natural and managed watersheds show similar responses to recent climate change

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Observed and projected changes in absolute temperature records across the contiguous United States

scholarly article

Observed changes in false springs over the contiguous United States

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Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature

scientific article published on 25 November 2021

Phenological trend estimation: a reply to Sagarin

scientific article published in 2009

Population exposure to pre-emptive de-energization aimed at averting wildfires in Northern California

scientific article

Projected Changes in Interannual Variability of Peak Snowpack Amount and Timing in the Western United States

scientific article published on 08 August 2019

Projected changes in cold hardiness zones and suitable overwinter ranges of perennial crops over the United States

Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints

scientific article published on 02 November 2021

Projecting Future Fire Regimes in a Semiarid Watershed of the Inland Northwestern United States: Interactions Among Climate Change, Vegetation Productivity, and Fuel Dynamics

scientific article published in 2022

Projections of 21st century climate of the Columbia River Basin

Protected areas not likely to serve as steppingstones for species undergoing climate‐induced range shifts

scientific article published in 2023

Quantifying the human influence on fire ignition across the western USA.

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

Questionable evidence of natural warming of the northwestern United States

scientific article published on 19 December 2014

Rapid Growth of Large Forest Fires Drives the Exponential Response of Annual Forest‐Fire Area to Aridity in the Western United States

scientific article published on 01 March 2022

Recent Advances and Remaining Uncertainties in Resolving Past and Future Climate Effects on Global Fire Activity

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Recent and future climate suitability for whitebark pine mortality from mountain pine beetles varies across the western US

scientific article published in 2017

Record-setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Regional Surges of Monsoonal Moisture into the Southwestern United States

scholarly article by James E. Favors & John T. Abatzoglou published January 2013 in Monthly Weather Review

Regional projections of the likelihood of very large wildland fires under a changing climate in the contiguous Western United States

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Relationship Between Climatic Factors and Distribution of Pratylenchus spp. in the Dryland Wheat-Production Areas of Eastern Washington

scientific article published on 01 November 2013

Relationships between climate and macroscale area burned in the western United States

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Relative importance of weather and climate on wildfire growth in interior Alaska

scholarly article by John T. Abatzoglou & Crystal A. Kolden published 2011 in International Journal of Wildland Fire

Response to concerns raised about the likelihood of protected areas serving as steppingstones for species responding to climate change

scientific article published in 2023

Seasonal Climate Variability and Change in the Pacific Northwest of the United States

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Seasonal reversal of the influence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation on very large wildfire occurrence in the interior northwestern United States

scholarly article by Renaud Barbero et al published 14 May 2015 in Geophysical Research Letters

Simulated water budget of a small forested watershed in the continental/maritime hydroclimatic region of the United States

article published in 2016

Simulating Vegetation Change, Carbon Cycling, and Fire Over the Western United States Using CMIP5 Climate Projections

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Spatial Distribution of Wildfires Ignited under Katabatic versus Non-Katabatic Winds in Mediterranean Southern California USA

scholarly article published 21 June 2018

Spatial coherence of extreme precipitation events in the Northwestern United States

scholarly article by Lauren E. Parker & John T. Abatzoglou published 25 September 2015 in International Journal of Climatology

Spatiotemporal patterns of unburned areas within fire perimeters in the northwestern United States from 1984 to 2014

scientific article published in 2018

Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire size extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Summer temperature variability since 1730 CE across the low-to-mid latitudes of western North America from a tree ring blue intensity network

scientific article published in 2021

Switching on the Big Burn of 2017

TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958-2015.

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

The 2017 North Bay and Southern California Fires: A Case Study

article published in 2018

The Changing Strength and Nature of Fire-Climate Relationships in the Northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., 1902-2008.

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

The Influence of Climate Model Biases on Projections of Aridity and Drought

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The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

The climate velocity of the contiguous United States during the 20th century

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The identification of distinct patterns in California temperature trends

The missing mountain water: slower westerlies decrease orographic enhancement in the Pacific Northwest USA.

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The relationship of large fire occurrence with drought and fire danger indices in the western USA, 1984–2008: the role of temporal scale

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The season for large fires in Southern California is projected to lengthen in a changing climate

scientific article published on 17 February 2022

Towards a new paradigm in fire severity research using dose–response experiments

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Tracking Interannual Streamflow Variability with Drought Indices in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

Tracking the rhythm of the seasons in the face of global change: phenological research in the 21st century

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Trends and drivers of fire activity vary across California aridland ecosystems

Understanding and predicting extreme wildfires in the contiguous United States

scholarly article published 3 August 2018

Using Scientific Conferences to Engage the Public on Climate Change

scholarly article by Jeffrey A. Hicke et al published February 2017 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 18 August 2020

Vegetation, topography and daily weather influenced burn severity in central Idaho and western Montana forests

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Vulnerability of field crops to midcentury temperature changes and yield effects in the Southwestern USA

Warmer and Drier Fire Seasons Contribute to Increases in Area Burned at High Severity in Western US Forests From 1985 to 2017

scientific article published in 2020

Warming enabled upslope advance in western US forest fires

scientific article published on 24 May 2021

Wave breaking along the stratospheric polar vortex as seen in ERA-40 data

scholarly article

Wilderness Fire Management in a Changing Environment

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Wildfire Consumption and Interannual Impacts by Land Cover in Alaskan Boreal Forest

scholarly article by Crystal A. Kolden & John T. Abatzoglou published April 2012 in Fire Ecology

Wildland fire deficit and surplus in the western United States, 1984–2012

scientific article published in 2015