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Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests by Abatzoglou, John T., Williams, A. Park

“…Increased forest fire activity across the western continental United States (US) in recent decades has likely been enabled by a number of factors, including…”
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Record‐setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States by Higuera, Philip E., Abatzoglou, John T.

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Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices by Abatzoglou, John T., Williams, A. Park, Barbero, Renaud

“…Changes in global fire activity are influenced by a multitude of factors including land‐cover change, policies, and climatic conditions. This study uses 17…”
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TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015 by Abatzoglou, John T., Dobrowski, Solomon Z., Parks, Sean A., Hegewisch, Katherine C.

“…We present TerraClimate, a dataset of high-spatial resolution (1/24°, ~4-km) monthly climate and climatic water balance for global terrestrial surfaces from…”
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Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States by Balch, Jennifer K., Bradley, Bethany A., Abatzoglou, John T., Nagy, R. Chelsea, Fusco, Emily J., Mahood, Adam L.

“…The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a…”
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Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California by Goss, Michael, Swain, Daniel L, Abatzoglou, John T, Sarhadi, Ali, Kolden, Crystal A, Williams, A Park, Diffenbaugh, Noah S

“…California has experienced devastating autumn wildfires in recent years. These autumn wildfires have coincided with extreme fire weather conditions during…”
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Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests by Hammond, William M., Williams, A. Park, Abatzoglou, John T., Adams, Henry D., Klein, Tamir, López, Rosana, Sáenz-Romero, Cuauhtémoc, Hartmann, Henrik, Breshears, David D., Allen, Craig D.

“…Earth’s forests face grave challenges in the Anthropocene, including hotter droughts increasingly associated with widespread forest die-off events. But despite…”
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Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2014 by Williams, A. Park, Seager, Richard, Abatzoglou, John T., Cook, Benjamin I., Smerdon, Jason E., Cook, Edward R.

“…A suite of climate data sets and multiple representations of atmospheric moisture demand are used to calculate many estimates of the self‐calibrated Palmer…”
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Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California by Williams, A. Park, Abatzoglou, John T., Gershunov, Alexander, Guzman‐Morales, Janin, Bishop, Daniel A., Balch, Jennifer K., Lettenmaier, Dennis P.

“…Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in…”
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Influence of the PNA on declining mountain snowpack in the Western United States by Abatzoglou, John T.

“…The widespread decrease in mountain snowpack across the Western United States is a hallmark indicator of regional climate change. Observed decreases in…”
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Contribution of Cutoff Lows to Precipitation across the United States by Abatzoglou, John T.

“…A chronology of cutoff lows (COL) from 1979 to 2014 alongside daily precipitation observations across the conterminous United States was used to examine the…”
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Projected Changes in Interannual Variability of Peak Snowpack Amount and Timing in the Western United States by Marshall, Adrienne M., Abatzoglou, John T., Link, Timothy E., Tennant, Christopher J.

“…Interannual variability of mountain snowpack has important consequences for ecological and socioeconomic systems, yet changes in variability have not been…”
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Improved Bias Correction Techniques for Hydrological Simulations of Climate Change by Pierce, David W., Cayan, Daniel R., Maurer, Edwin P., Abatzoglou, John T., Hegewisch, Katherine C.

“…Global climate model (GCM) output typically needs to be bias corrected before it can be used for climate change impact studies. Three existing bias correction…”
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The Changing Strength and Nature of Fire-Climate Relationships in the Northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., 1902-2008 by Higuera, Philip E, Abatzoglou, John T, Littell, Jeremy S, Morgan, Penelope

“…Time-varying fire-climate relationships may represent an important component of fire-regime variability, relevant for understanding the controls of fire and…”
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Changes in Climatic Water Balance Drive Downhill Shifts in Plant Species' Optimum Elevations by Crimmins, Shawn M, Dobrowski, Solomon Z, Greenberg, Jonathan A, Abatzoglou, John T, Mynsberge, Alison R

“…Uphill shifts of species' distributions in response to historical warming are well documented, which leads to widespread expectations of continued uphill…”
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Projected increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints by Abatzoglou, John T., Battisti, David S., Williams, A. Park, Hansen, Winslow D., Harvey, Brian J., Kolden, Crystal A.

“…Abstract Escalating burned area in western US forests punctuated by the 2020 fire season has heightened the need to explore near-term macroscale forest-fire…”
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Protected areas not likely to serve as steppingstones for species undergoing climate‐induced range shifts by Parks, Sean A., Holsinger, Lisa M., Abatzoglou, John T., Littlefield, Caitlin E., Zeller, Katherine A.

“…Species across the planet are shifting their ranges to track suitable climate conditions in response to climate change. Given that protected areas have higher…”
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Climate will increasingly determine post‐fire tree regeneration success in low‐elevation forests, Northern Rockies, USA by Kemp, Kerry B., Higuera, Philip E., Morgan, Penelope, Abatzoglou, John T.

“…Climate change is expected to cause widespread shifts in the distribution and abundance of plant species through direct impacts on mortality, regeneration, and…”
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Population exposure to pre-emptive de-energization aimed at averting wildfires in Northern California by Abatzoglou, John T, Smith, Craig M, Swain, Daniel L, Ptak, Thomas, Kolden, Crystal A

“…Recent extreme fire seasons in California have prompted utilities such as Pacific Gas and Electric to pre-emptively de-energize portions of the electrical grid…”
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Camouflage mismatch in seasonal coat color due to decreased snow duration by Mills, L. Scott, Zimova, Marketa, Oyler, Jared, Running, Steven, Abatzoglou, John T., Lukacs, Paul M.

“…Most examples of seasonal mismatches in phenology span multiple trophic levels, with timing of animal reproduction, hibernation, or migration becoming detached…”
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