List of works - A. Park Williams

A 500-Year Tree Ring-Based Reconstruction of Extreme Cold-Season Precipitation and Number of Atmospheric River Landfalls Across the Southwestern United States

scholarly article by Scott Steinschneider et al published 10 June 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

A Euro-Mediterranean tree-ring reconstruction of the winter NAO index since 910 C.E.

scientific article published in 2019

A range of possibilities: Assessing geographic variation in climate sensitivity of ponderosa pine using tree rings

scientific article published in 2017

A westward extension of the warm pool leads to a westward extension of the Walker circulation, drying eastern Africa

article

Analysis of CO2 leakage through ‘low-permeability’ faults from natural reservoirs in the Colorado Plateau, east-central Utah

article published in 2004

Blue Water Trade-Offs With Vegetation in a CO2 -Enriched Climate

scholarly article

Causes and Implications of Extreme Atmospheric Moisture Demand during the Record-Breaking 2011 Wildfire Season in the Southwestern United States*

scholarly article by A. Park Williams et al published December 2014 in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Climate Change Amplification of Natural Drought Variability: The Historic Mid-Twentieth-Century North American Drought in a Warmer World

scientific article

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

scientific article

Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Climate-driven regime shifts in a mangrove-salt marsh ecotone over the past 250 years

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

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

Climatology, Variability, and Trends in the U.S. Vapor Pressure Deficit, an Important Fire-Related Meteorological Quantity*

Cloud shading and fog drip influence the metabolism of a coastal pine ecosystem.

scientific article

Cold Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures During the Late Sixteenth-Century North American Megadrought

Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2014

article

Correlations between components of the water balance and burned area reveal new insights for predicting forest fire area in the southwest United States

article by A. Park Williams et al published 2015 in International Journal of Wildland Fire

Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO 2

scientific article

Divergent Regional Climate Consequences of Maintaining Current Irrigation Rates in the 21st Century

scientific article

Dynamics and Variability of the Spring Dry Season in the United States Southwest as Observed in AmeriFlux and NLDAS-2 Data

scientific article

Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America

ENSO-driven coupled megadroughts in North and South America over the last millennium

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Empirical and process-based approaches to climate-induced forest mortality models.

scientific article

Evaluating theories of drought-induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel-experiment framework.

scientific article published on 05 September 2013

Exacerbation of the 2013-2016 Pan-Caribbean Drought by Anthropogenic Warming

article

FOREST ECOLOGY. Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models.

scientific article

Fog drip maintains dry season ecological function in a California coastal pine forest

article published in 2016

Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States

scientific article

Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

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

Global forests are influenced by the legacies of past inter-annual temperature variability

scientific article published in 2022

Global patterns of interannual climate-fire relationships

scientific article published on 24 August 2018

Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances.

scientific article

Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply

scientific article published in 2022

Historical droughts recorded in extended Juniperus procera ring-width chronologies from the Ethiopian Highlands

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

How much have California winters warmed over the last century?

article

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

scientific article

Increasing Synchronous Fire Danger in Forests of the Western United States

scientific article

Integrating physiological threshold experiments with climate modeling to project mangrove species' range expansion.

scientific article published on 6 February 2015

Investigating the causes of increased 20th-century fall precipitation over the southeastern United States

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Land-atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate concurrent soil drought and atmospheric aridity

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Large and projected strengthening moisture limitation on end-of-season photosynthesis

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Mid-latitude freshwater availability reduced by projected vegetation responses to climate change

Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise

North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations

scholarly article by Benjamin I. Cook et al published 29 March 2016 in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: WIREs Climate Change

Oceanic and radiative forcing of medieval megadroughts in the American Southwest

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Pacific Ocean Forcing and Atmospheric Variability Are the Dominant Causes of Spatially Widespread Droughts in the Contiguous United States

scientific article

Patterns and correlates of giant sequoia foliage dieback during California's 2012-2016 hotter drought

scientific article

Precipitation, Temperature, and Teleconnection Signals across the Combined North American, Monsoon Asia, and Old World Drought Atlases

article

Projected Changes to Hydroclimate Seasonality in the Continental United States

scientific article

Projected Future Changes in Vegetation in Western North America in the Twenty-First Century

article by Xiaoyan Jiang et al published June 2013 in Journal of Climate

Projected increases in intensity, frequency, and terrestrial carbon costs of compound drought and aridity events

scientific article published on 23 January 2019

Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints

scientific article published on 02 November 2021

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

Rapid warming accelerates tree growth decline in semi-arid forests of Inner Asia

scientific article

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

article

Recent summer precipitation trends in the Greater Horn of Africa and the emerging role of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature

article

Reconstructing Extreme Precipitation in the Sacramento River Watershed Using Tree‐Ring Based Proxies of Cold‐Season Precipitation

scientific article published in 2021

Revisiting the Leading Drivers of Pacific Coastal Drought Variability in the Contiguous United States

SAR-enhanced mapping of live fuel moisture content

article by Krishna Rao et al published August 2020 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Sea Surface Temperature Warming Patterns and Future Vegetation Change

article

Seasonal and episodic moisture controls on plant and microbial contributions to soil respiration.

scientific article

Sensitivity of grassland productivity to aridity controlled by stomatal and xylem regulation

article published in 2017

Significance of summer fog and overcast for drought stress and ecological functioning of coastal California endemic plant species

article

Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands

scientific article

Spatial Patterns and Trends of Summertime Low Cloudiness for the Pacific Northwest, 1996-2017

scientific article published on 19 August 2020

Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Cloud Cover and Fog Inundation in Coastal California: Ecological Implications

article published in 2016

Strengthened scientific support for the Endangerment Finding for atmospheric greenhouse gases

scientific article

Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

The 2016 southeastern US drought: an extreme departure from centennial wetting and cooling

scientific article published on 04 October 2017

The Curious Case of Projected Twenty-First-Century Drying but Greening in the American West

scientific article published on 03 October 2017

The Dynamic Temperate and Boreal Fire and Forest-Ecosystem Simulator (DYNAFFOREST): Development and evaluation

scientific article published in 2022

The critical amplifying role of increasing atmospheric moisture demand on tree mortality and associated regional die-off

scientific article published on 02 August 2013

The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020)

Scholarly article, 2024

The influence of summertime fog and overcast clouds on the growth of a coastal Californian pine: a tree-ring study.

scientific article

The northward march of summer low cloudiness along the California coast

article

Traumatic Resin Ducts in Alaska Mountain Hemlock Trees Provide a New Proxy for Winter Storminess

scientific article published in 2019

Tree Rings and Observations Suggest No Stable Cycles in Sierra Nevada Cool‐Season Precipitation

scientific article

Tree-ring isotopes capture interannual vegetation productivity dynamics at the biome scale

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Tree‐Ring Reconstruction of the Atmospheric Ridging Feature That Causes Flash Drought in the Central United States Since 1500

scientific article

Trends toward an earlier peak of the growing season in Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes

scientific article published on 11 January 2016

Tussocks Enduring or Shrubs Greening: Alternate Responses to Changing Fire Regimes in the Noatak River Valley, Alaska

scientific article

Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Twenty‐First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios

scientific article

U.S. Pacific Coastal Droughts Are Predominantly Driven by Internal Atmospheric Variability

scientific article

Uncertainties, Limits, and Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation for Soil Moisture Drought in Southwestern North America

scientific article published in 2021

Urbanization causes increased cloud base height and decreased fog in coastal Southern California

article

Using Tree Rings to Predict the Response of Tree Growth to Climate Change in the Continental United States during the Twenty-First Century

article

Vegetation Responses to 2012–2016 Drought in Northern and Southern California

article

Whither the 100th Meridian? The Once and Future Physical and Human Geography of America’s Arid–Humid Divide. Part I: The Story So Far

Who is the new sheriff in town regulating boreal forest growth?

article by A. Park Williams et al published 1 December 2011 in Environmental Research Letters

List of works by A. Park Williams

A 500-Year Tree Ring-Based Reconstruction of Extreme Cold-Season Precipitation and Number of Atmospheric River Landfalls Across the Southwestern United States

A Euro-Mediterranean tree-ring reconstruction of the winter NAO index since 910 C.E.

A range of possibilities: Assessing geographic variation in climate sensitivity of ponderosa pine using tree rings

A westward extension of the warm pool leads to a westward extension of the Walker circulation, drying eastern Africa

Analysis of CO2 leakage through ‘low-permeability’ faults from natural reservoirs in the Colorado Plateau, east-central Utah

Blue Water Trade-Offs With Vegetation in a CO2 -Enriched Climate

Causes and Implications of Extreme Atmospheric Moisture Demand during the Record-Breaking 2011 Wildfire Season in the Southwestern United States*

Climate Change Amplification of Natural Drought Variability: The Historic Mid-Twentieth-Century North American Drought in a Warmer World

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

Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

Climate-driven regime shifts in a mangrove-salt marsh ecotone over the past 250 years

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

Climatology, Variability, and Trends in the U.S. Vapor Pressure Deficit, an Important Fire-Related Meteorological Quantity*

Cloud shading and fog drip influence the metabolism of a coastal pine ecosystem.

Cold Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures During the Late Sixteenth-Century North American Megadrought

Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era

Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2014

Correlations between components of the water balance and burned area reveal new insights for predicting forest fire area in the southwest United States

Disentangling the Regional Climate Impacts of Competing Vegetation Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO 2

Divergent Regional Climate Consequences of Maintaining Current Irrigation Rates in the 21st Century

Dynamics and Variability of the Spring Dry Season in the United States Southwest as Observed in AmeriFlux and NLDAS-2 Data

Dynamics, Variability, and Change in Seasonal Precipitation Reconstructions for North America

ENSO-driven coupled megadroughts in North and South America over the last millennium

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

Empirical and process-based approaches to climate-induced forest mortality models.

Evaluating theories of drought-induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel-experiment framework.

Exacerbation of the 2013-2016 Pan-Caribbean Drought by Anthropogenic Warming

FOREST ECOLOGY. Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models.

Fog drip maintains dry season ecological function in a California coastal pine forest

Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States

Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices

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

Global forests are influenced by the legacies of past inter-annual temperature variability

Global patterns of interannual climate-fire relationships

Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances.

Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply

Historical droughts recorded in extended Juniperus procera ring-width chronologies from the Ethiopian Highlands

How much have California winters warmed over the last century?

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

Increasing Synchronous Fire Danger in Forests of the Western United States

Integrating physiological threshold experiments with climate modeling to project mangrove species' range expansion.

Investigating the causes of increased 20th-century fall precipitation over the southeastern United States

Land-atmosphere feedbacks exacerbate concurrent soil drought and atmospheric aridity

Large and projected strengthening moisture limitation on end-of-season photosynthesis

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

Mid-latitude freshwater availability reduced by projected vegetation responses to climate change

Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise

North American megadroughts in the Common Era: reconstructions and simulations

Oceanic and radiative forcing of medieval megadroughts in the American Southwest

Pacific Ocean Forcing and Atmospheric Variability Are the Dominant Causes of Spatially Widespread Droughts in the Contiguous United States

Patterns and correlates of giant sequoia foliage dieback during California's 2012-2016 hotter drought

Precipitation, Temperature, and Teleconnection Signals across the Combined North American, Monsoon Asia, and Old World Drought Atlases

Projected Changes to Hydroclimate Seasonality in the Continental United States

Projected Future Changes in Vegetation in Western North America in the Twenty-First Century

Projected increases in intensity, frequency, and terrestrial carbon costs of compound drought and aridity events

Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints

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

Rapid warming accelerates tree growth decline in semi-arid forests of Inner Asia

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

Recent summer precipitation trends in the Greater Horn of Africa and the emerging role of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature

Reconstructing Extreme Precipitation in the Sacramento River Watershed Using Tree‐Ring Based Proxies of Cold‐Season Precipitation

Revisiting the Leading Drivers of Pacific Coastal Drought Variability in the Contiguous United States

SAR-enhanced mapping of live fuel moisture content

Sea Surface Temperature Warming Patterns and Future Vegetation Change

Seasonal and episodic moisture controls on plant and microbial contributions to soil respiration.

Sensitivity of grassland productivity to aridity controlled by stomatal and xylem regulation

Significance of summer fog and overcast for drought stress and ecological functioning of coastal California endemic plant species

Six hundred years of South American tree rings reveal an increase in severe hydroclimatic events since mid-20th century

Soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks mitigate declining water availability in drylands

Spatial Patterns and Trends of Summertime Low Cloudiness for the Pacific Northwest, 1996-2017

Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Cloud Cover and Fog Inundation in Coastal California: Ecological Implications

Strengthened scientific support for the Endangerment Finding for atmospheric greenhouse gases

Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

The 2016 southeastern US drought: an extreme departure from centennial wetting and cooling

The Curious Case of Projected Twenty-First-Century Drying but Greening in the American West

The Dynamic Temperate and Boreal Fire and Forest-Ecosystem Simulator (DYNAFFOREST): Development and evaluation

The critical amplifying role of increasing atmospheric moisture demand on tree mortality and associated regional die-off

The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020)

The influence of summertime fog and overcast clouds on the growth of a coastal Californian pine: a tree-ring study.